Whitmer Says Trump Dropped Talk of Pardoning Men Convicted in Kidnap Plot

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The men were accused of plotting to kidnap the governor in retaliation for her COVID-19 lockdown policies in 2020.

Michiganโ€™s Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said that President Donald Trump reaffirmed to her that he would not be pardoning the two men who were imprisoned for leading a plot to kidnap her in 2020.

The Democratic governor disclosed on Michigan public radio on May 29 that about a month ago, the president asked her how she felt about him possibly pardoning the men, Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox.

The men were accused of plotting to kidnap the governor in retaliation for her COVID-19 lockdown policies in 2020.

Both men were convicted of conspiracy in federal court in Grand Rapids in 2022. Separately, Croft was also found guilty of a weapons charge, receiving a nearly 20-year prison sentence. Fox is currently serving a 16-year term. Both men are held in a federal prison in Colorado.

Trump said on May 28 that he followed the menโ€™s trial and said, โ€œIt looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job.โ€ He also said the men โ€œwere drinking and I think they said stupid things.โ€

The Justice Departmentโ€™s new pardon attorney also recently said that he would take a โ€œhard lookโ€ at pardoning both men.

Whitmer took a stand against it.

โ€œI said, โ€˜I think it would be the wrong decision,โ€™โ€ Whitmer recounted telling the president. โ€œI would oppose it, and he said, โ€˜OK, Iโ€™ll drop it.โ€™โ€

โ€œNo one should hesitate to condemn political violence,โ€ she added.

Afterward, she told an audience at a Detroit Regional Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference that she would discuss the matter with Trump further.

โ€œWe have an ongoing dialogue now … very different from the first term,โ€ she said about Trump.

Meanwhile, the White House did not comment on the conversation between the two politicians.

โ€œThe White House does not comment on the Presidentโ€™s private meetings, and any speculation about future pardons is just thatโ€”speculation,โ€ principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields said in a statement.

Byย T.J. Muscaro

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