The Washington Post reports:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said Thursday that President Donald Trump would be breaking a promise if he went through with pardoning the two men who were convicted of plotting to kidnap her, claiming that he pledged not to do so during a conversation last month.
In 2022, Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox were convicted of plotting to kidnap Whitmer in 2020 in one of the highest-profile domestic terrorism cases in recent memory. Prosecutors cast the men as violent anti-government extremists who planned to kidnap the governor from her vacation home over what they saw as overly restrictive pandemic policies, detonate a bridge to disrupt responding officers and ignite a civil war ahead of the 2020 election.
On Wednesday, Trump told reporters that he would “take a look at” pardoning the men, adding, “I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job.”
Read the full article. As reported here earlier this week, Trump’s far-right pardon czar Ed Martin is pushing to free the pair, comparing them to Capitol riot “patriots” and posting on X, “No MAGA left behind.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Trump PROMISED not to pardon those who plotted to kidnap her.
This week he said he would “take a look” at what “appeared to be a railroad job”
In other news, Trump also PROMISED to be faithfuI to THREE wives…
A Trump promise is WORTHLESS… pic.twitter.com/EcLYr6OBBG
— Donaldo 🏴 (@Stornoway_Cove) May 30, 2025