Whitmer: Trump Said He Won’t Pardon Kidnap Plotters

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.”