Did undercover FBI agent posing as militia set up Michigan Gov. kidnapping plot?

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Detroit Free Press

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Graham was grilling FBI special agent Richard Trask about his testimony that at least 13 self-described militia members plotted to kidnap Whitmer from her vacation home and do one of two things: either take her on a boat in the middle of Lake Michigan and leave her there, or, take her to Wisconsin and try her for treason.

Graham asked agent Trask how the suspects planned to get Whitmer to Wisconsin.

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All five defendants appeared in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, where the government disclosed shocking new allegations in the case, including: Fox wanted to take Whitmer out on a boat and leave her in Lake Michigan; the group talked about also kidnapping Virginia's governor; and one suspect — a decorated Marine — allegedly asked his cohorts if they were interested in killing a cop in Maine for one of his friends.

Defense lawyers, meanwhile, argued that the government has only produced snippets of conversations in the case and that there is no evidence that the accused had any real plan to kidnap Whitmer. They said that it remains to be seen what roles the undercover informants and FBI agents played in the case, and whether they pushed the others into carrying out the plan, which in the end was foiled when FBI agents arrested five men during a setup on Oct. 7.

According to the FBI, the defendants thought they were going to buy explosives and tactical gear from an associate, but FBI agents were there instead.

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Springstead also said the use of an informant in the investigation to thwart the plot raises questions. Feds said an informant wore wires to meetings to record the men charged and collect information on the kidnapping plan.

“(I)t’s become an issue in certain cases where the informant pushes some of the information, and the court and the government and the defense attorneys have to be leery of that,” Springstead told reporters. “Because their job is not to assess what the government informant wants them to do, it’s to assess the accused’s intent and what they actually planned on doing.”

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Who is to say that the embedded FBI agent didn't tape out of context statements?

It sounds like he gave them the idea to take the Governor to the middle of a lake on a boat and leave her there, or take her in for treason.

This happens weeks after FBI Dir. Wray says militia white nationalists are the biggest threat to our country.

The FBI agent embedded within the miltia group then calls the media and claims he saved the day. Then the media reports this full of holes story and tries to pin Trump to it...