As the second trial of two men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 enters week two, prosecutors presented audio and text evidence supporting their case.
Defendant Adam Fox, 38, of Wyoming, Mich., was secretly recorded expressing glee, as he and his acquaintance—now turned FBI informant, Dan Chappel—cased the premises and surrounding area of Democrat Whitmer’s lakeside summer home.
Fox and Chappel, a 35-year-old U.S. Army veteran, allegedly drove by the residence several times, drove into nearby Elk Rapids to check out the local police station, and visited the now infamous boat launch where Whitmer’s husband dropped his wife’s name in an effort to get the staff to put his craft into the water during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown—a time when such activity was prohibited….