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Defense: Whitmer 'kidnapping plot' disintegrating as FBI loses credibility
Just The News ^ | January 5, 2022 | Scott McClallen

Posted on 01/06/2022 11:34:14 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx

"The crux of the case is whether the alleged extremists or the FBI itself fueled the plan.

When law enforcement touted foiling a months-long kidnapping plot of Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in October 2020 that spanned several states and included encrypted chats and explosives, many believed it was an open-and-shut case.

But more than a year later, critics say the arrest and convictions of the lead FBI agent and an FBI confidential informant blurred the line between extremist and confidential informant. Moreover, three planned witnesses have been accused of crimes and won't be testifying in the March 8 trial in Grand Rapids as defense attorneys question the FBI's credibility. ..."

(Excerpt) Read more at justthenews.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: whitmer; wolverinewatchmen

1 posted on 01/06/2022 11:34:14 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Like everything the alt-far-left-communist-democRATs do this house of cards is built with lies and gaslighting. The FBI is out of control and needs to be dismantled. <— look ma, I questioned the gestapo...I’m an ‘insurrectionist’ now!


2 posted on 01/06/2022 11:34:24 PM PST by ProfessorGoldiloxx
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

I don’t think I can ever sit on a case with the FBI without being conflicted.


3 posted on 01/06/2022 11:54:16 PM PST by wgmalabama (We will find out if the Vac or virus risk was the correct choice - can we put truth above narrative)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

This was just a trial run for Jan 6.


4 posted on 01/06/2022 11:58:15 PM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: gattaca

Who is Ray Epps?


5 posted on 01/07/2022 12:02:50 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Fake news! The FBI has no credibility to lose.


6 posted on 01/07/2022 12:02:50 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: FreedomPoster

Exactly!

https://www.revolver.news/2021/10/meet-ray-epps-the-fed-protected-provocateur-who-appears-to-have-led-the-very-first-1-6-attack-on-the-u-s-capitol/


7 posted on 01/07/2022 12:06:08 AM PST by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Clear case of entrapment. This was a FIB operation, not the defendants’.


8 posted on 01/07/2022 12:19:54 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

The FBI agents should all be arrested and charged with the crime.


9 posted on 01/07/2022 12:25:59 AM PST by Revel
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

Good


10 posted on 01/07/2022 12:27:39 AM PST by ZULU (HOOVER, FREEH, MUELLER, COMEY, WRAY, SUCCESSION OF STATISTS)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

You can’t lose what you ain’t got. FBI is 🐴💩


11 posted on 01/07/2022 12:51:18 AM PST by Equine1952
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

the FIB has the CREDIBILITY of an active child rapist
blaming innocent parents for the dead children in
his home.

FIB <= evil incarnate against the US Constitution
FIB <= no charter exists


12 posted on 01/07/2022 4:23:07 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

The FBI had any left?????


13 posted on 01/07/2022 5:14:03 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

My two cents:

Christopher Wray had an opportunity to FIX what the FBI was doing, but chose not only to keep the same Lawless strategy, but also to enhance it.

Wray could have been a HERO. Instead he became a cancer that will destroy the Agency.


14 posted on 01/07/2022 5:24:45 AM PST by Maris Crane
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

As a Michigan resident at the time, I followed whatever was on the local news. An interesting item that was quickly discarded at the time was that the ‘plotters’ were planning a ‘citizen’s arrest’ of Whitmer. When someone believes that a person has committed a crime, it’s hardly illegal to discuss conducting a citizen’s arrest.

If this truly was the original intent of the ‘plot’, and that the FBI turned it into a ‘murder’ plot, then the arrested should be immediately released, and the FBI instigators should be the ones in jail.


15 posted on 01/07/2022 5:53:29 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Read ...Police State...by Gerry Spence.....FBI entrapment going back to 1980s....Good example Randy Weaver


16 posted on 01/07/2022 6:30:37 AM PST by Hojczyk
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To: ProfessorGoldiloxx

“Moreover, three planned witnesses have been accused of crimes and won’t be testifying in the March 8 trial in Grand Rapids as defense attorneys question the FBI’s credibility. ...”

It seems to me that the Defense should subpoena these people and put them on the stand under oath. Treat them as hostile witnesses if you have to but I’d be demanding the opportunity to get their sworn testimony.

But I’m no lawyer.

L


17 posted on 01/07/2022 6:44:18 AM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Maris Crane

LOL - as if it all hinged on Wray. Who has been around longer with more scandals?


18 posted on 01/07/2022 6:52:06 AM PST by BrandtMichaels ( )
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To: norwaypinesavage

Recently I watched a video of Whitmer....can’t remember who put it together. I think that she was still a state legislator but she was the one who opened the door to let the protestors storm the State Capitol building. The internet appears to have done a good job of scrubbing it.....

As I watched that, I wondered what ‘active role’ she played in the whole kidnapping plot....


19 posted on 01/07/2022 6:53:06 AM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: BrandtMichaels

Has he tried to repair anything


20 posted on 01/07/2022 9:08:00 AM PST by Maris Crane
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