FBI agent: Groups discussed kidnapping Virginia governor

[Yonnie3]

Source: AP

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court hearing in Michigan.

Special Agent Richard Trask was part of the investigation that led to six men being arrested and charged last week with plotting to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Seven other men face state terrorism charges.

Trask did not name Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, during his testimony in a federal courtroom in Grand Rapids. He said members of anti-government groups from multiple states attended the meeting.

“They discussed possible targets, taking a sitting governor, specifically issues with the governor of Michigan and Virginia based on the lockdown orders,” Trask said. He said the people at the meeting were unhappy with the governors’ response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-kidnapping-michigan-gretchen-whitmer-arrests-b0d90b827be272781239f8e841d635dd

[empedocles]

1. Hope there are some flippers in among the bad guys

[Yonnie3]

5. I fear that this is just the tip of the iceberg. n/t

[Lasher]

25. I'm afraid you could be right.

[Laelth]

2. The President told them "to liberate," so they made plans "to liberate."

This should come as no shock. These loyal supporters were just planning to do what they were told to do by their leader.

-Laelth

[Vdizzle]

14. Well they liberated themselves from their freedumb

[onetexan]

24. only to be locked up behind bars. Some liberation.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

18. Exactly. He's been giving them orders to take down Democracy since he was elected.

nt

[Freedomofspeech]

3. My gawd....

Are we officially a third world country now?

[lagomorph777]

4. I knew this was a national/international terror organization.

Biden's AG will have to invest a lot of effort into rolling this up, if we survive until 2021.

[empedocles]

6. Voters don't like TERROR. We need the right kind of big publicity on this soon.

[PunkinPi]

7. Th terrorist in chief is responsible for this...

[NoRoadUntravelled]

19. It will be a wonderful day when the US is liberated from the Covid-Spreader-in-Chief.

A bigger party than any July Fourth ever.

[Duppers]

26. Amen to that. 👍👍

[bucolic_frolic]

8. The mentality, the mentality

They thought this was a good idea, and thought they would get away with it, and thought that it would change things they cared about.

To my thinking, they were either very stupid, or they were doing this out of sheer anger. They had no idea this would not turn out well? For them, or for their twisted cause?

[dware]

12. I believe that it was stupidity fueled by anger with the Mango Menace

egging it on.

As Ron White so succinctly put it,

You can't fix stupid.

[mr_lebowski]

27. I friggin love Ron White (nt)

[Lock him up.]

23. These 5-o'clock teRRorRists are a bunch of basement idiots...

They thought no law-enforcement agents (FBI) would infiltrate their ridiculous teRRoRist groups...

Never came to their pea brains.

[SKKY]

9. And it's not like, DHS, under the leadership of Janet Napolitano, didn't warn us...

....of all this. In 2009.

[Roy Rolling]

10. Cowards

You know who these boy militias didn’t target? Louisiana Democratic Governor and West Point Army Ranger John Bel Edwards.

[genxlib]

11. Well

At least we can eliminate misogyny as motive now.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. Remember the day in pictures.

Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified during a court hearing in Michigan.

Link to tweet

[JohnnyRingo]

15. FBI can't keep playing whack-a-mole.

Eventually, one of these groups are going to succeed with a terror plot. it'll be interesting to see how this administration reacts.

[jmowreader]

16. This administration will blame the target publicly

In private they’ll break out the hookers and blow, and have a massive party.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

20. These groups will be more dangerous immediately following the Biden win.

No doubt the FBI is already looking at that. I'm so grateful that they're sticking with it despite tRump's efforts to diminish them in the public's view. He's done nothing to uplift anything except corruption, dishonesty, incompetence, dictators, tax evasion, racism, and his wealthy cronies.

[Cryptoad]

17. Guess they decided just to,,,,

severe his Internet FiberO cables instead.

[58Sunliner]

21. They both just happen to have Democratic govs. And they are 2 of the states targeted by DT.

[hibbing]

22. What would have these terrorists done during WWII?

I mean rationing, both fuel and food and all of the other sacrifices everyone made during that time. They can't handle some restrictions and wearing a stupid mask....snowflakes.


Peace