FBI stops plot to overthrow Michigan state government and kidnap governor
15 October 2020 |
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A militia group had planned to storm the state capitol in Lansing and put Governor Gretchen Whitmer "on trial for treason." Later the plan shifted to kidnapping her at her vacation home.
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