Was Gov. Whitmer ‘kidnap’ plot actually a warm-up for Jan. 6?

As attention turns to the Capitol riot on the first anniversary Thursday, evidence is mounting in the investigation of the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer that has striking parallels to the Jan. 6 event.

Defense attorneys in the Whitmer case are piecing together evidence “that depicts an elaborate tale of FBI entrapment,” writes Julie Kelly, who has reported extensively on both cases for the website American Greatness.

She points out at least a dozen FBI informants were involved in the failed plot to kidnap the Michigan governor, amounting to about one FBI asset per defendant.

“FBI agents handling the informants directed every move,” Kelly writes. “They funded training and reconnaissance trips, and even organized a ‘national militia’ conference in Ohio in June 2020 to lure potential accomplices.”

But when several men were arrested in the Michigan plot in October 2020 after the lead informant drove them to meet an undercover FBI agent, Joe Biden, Whitmer and the establishment media blamed President Trump for inciting an attempted domestic terror attack.

That should sound familiar, writes Kelly.

On Thursday, President Biden will give a speech on the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot in which he will place responsibility on Trump, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at the daily briefing Wednesday. – READ MORE