5/30/2025

MICHIGAN - Governor Gretchen Whitmer has condemned President Donald Trump’s possible plan to pardon the men who planned to kidnap her. Whitmer said Thursday, “No one should hesitate to condemn political violence, whether it is aimed at my good friend Josh Shapiro, the horror that played out at their residence in Pennsylvania, or it is the man who shot Donald Trump, or it is the people that threatened me. It’s unacceptable…” The other incidents the Governor referred to were the assassination attempt on Trump during a rally in July, and a man who set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion as the governor and his family slept inside. Fourteen men were charged in the 2020 plot to kidnap Whitmer from her summer home in Antrim County. Five of those men were found not guilty. Trump on Wednesday expressed skepticism about the convictions of those involved in the plot, and said he was looking at possible pardons for two key figures in the plot, Barry Croft Jr., 49, of Bear, Delaware, and Adam Fox, 42, of Wyoming.