The trial for four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that was scheduled to resume Monday has been postponed at least until Thursday because an essential participant tested positive for COVID-19
Highlights
- Trial for four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov.
- Gretchen Whitmer has been postponed at least until Thursday.
- Undercover FBI agents and informants were expected to testify in the coming weeks.
- Jurors heard for the first time a recording of one of the defendants specifically talk about kidnapping the Democratic governor.
- In testimony last week, prosecutors sought to counter defense claims that the four were entrapped, tricked by the FBI into joining a kidnapping conspiracy that wouldn’t have occurred to them otherwise.
- In 2020, Whitmer was trading taunts with then-President Donald Trump over his administration’s response to coronavirus restrictions.