Former U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider, who was part of the team investigating the plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, speaks publicly about the case for the first time in an interview with NBC News’ Stephanie Gosk.
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New Details In The Plot To Kidnap Michigan Gov. Whitmer | NBC Nightly News
😂 “unlikely home”. That is precisely the kind of junkyard house that you immediately associate with these kinds of people
Wolverine Watchmen, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers… these American hillbilly militia are the modern kkk. They’ll fly the US flag, carry the Bible, go to church and break the law in the name of patriotism. Simply because they don’t get their way because according to them, it’s their way or the highway. The funniest part is that they won’t be allowed to legally carry/own guns which had been their whole personality. 😂🤣😂😷🍿
No…that would be ANTIFA…the new KKK…
Who in their right mind would kidnap Gretchen the witch ?
She’s the worst governor in captivity.
Was that the brother of the governor Snyder that found all these guys that wanted to do that oh fishy fishy
Not many would care if she was kidnapped
Its a dog town……unlivable dog town
NO TRUTH TO IT !! UNFOUNDED LIKE MOST OF THE DEMOCRATS SOCIALISTS REHTORIC AND PROPAGANDA !!
A scuffle that if a black or spanich man woman or child make will be dead instantly
Whackadoodles gotta whack.
Nice distraction. Now what about the actual threats happening in cities now? Crickets?
Entrapment
Fake News!!
Ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake news ffffffake
All riots have been done by Democrat voters
Please stop lying about everything
You people lie
Funny government want everyone to be vaccinated and get a vaccine passport and make it available for everyone. Voting ID card is suppression and people can’t get access to it both effect your life that proves that the election last November fact was rigged
Government surrounded by assault rifles and high compasity guns and telling citizens they can’t have guns proves guilty the election last November fact was rigged
I’m a michigander it seems the same people who criticized our governor when we had the full lockdown are now criticizing her again for not doing enough with our major spike in recent weeks,she will shut it down again it seems not everyone follows the rules
I remember when they used me as a target practice.
I was 14 years old.
They remembered when I came back.
And give them the same medicine that they make me drink.
They all move out of the town were is only my flag that counts.
No locos.
Not the Puerto Rican flag.
The flag of all of us use.
🇺🇸 this flag😁
The Confederate flag run away like they always do when the situation is not on their favor😂😂😂
Just think how much people would be scared, screaming, and protesting if the “government” did nothing about covid was just like Oh well, lots of you are going to die, you’re on your own. There would be protest and demonstrations by these very same people screaming where’s the government how come they’re not doing anything about this like closing things downs and making people wear masks……..
Shooting tires?? These guys were idiots. The world is watching the trial of Floyd and these idiots we hardly hear anything.
Hahhaha!!!
kidnap the Governor..?
These boys smoked too much dope & watched too many movies
😀😀😀😂😂😂
Yaaaawn
Aww man ahe’s still here?
Calling it nonsense was a problem. WHITE SUPREMACY is an issue for this country. It is breathed by everyone who stays quiet and watches.
Russian Trump should go to jail, as this is ALL his doing, started in 2016
American people need to be educated in many ways on many levels for this to stop in America
“But BLM and Antifa”… it’s time that we start looking for property outside of the country to live in.
Am i the only one who realizes this is not new info?
Love how nbc just put out there who the snitch was. Hahahah he the CI.
It turns out the whole thing was set up by the FBI through an informant in the group that kept pushing for the kidnap attempt at the urging of the…FBI…
The FBI is now a Militant Wing of the DemoKKKrat party…
All you liberals should have nothing to say. Your ideology has produced arson-looting-mayhem-rioting throughout the country for over a year. These few idiots are nothing compared to the mob you guys cobbled together.
This is just theater…NBC working for the DemoKKKrat Party…a number of them have already had the charges thrown out by the judge who knows that the FBI informant in the group was the one who was driving the ‘kidnap plot’ at the behest of the FBI…THAT makes the FBI complicit in the plot…and the judge sees this for what it is…another treasonist plot by a CORRUPT FBI…
“Domestic Terrorism” against an overstepping governor? Their actions may have overstepped the line as to what they could have done about their situation.
That’s what happens when you are a commie governor
Wolverine Watchmen are like the Oath Keepers, the III Percenters, the Proud Boys, and all the other far-right terrorist groups.
Sounds like deflection of Whitmer being a failure, strictest lockdowns, with a virus out of control 🤔
Oh. Please. She. Staged. It.
Treat them like you do black people at a traffic stop.
Disgusting… the u.s.a is a disgusting place
Instead of ‘attempting’ to kidnap that loser, they should have just sat back a few hundred yards – and aimed.
USA must go back to the style of 60s and 70s, the political styles after year 2000 are all failing, no good at all. Clearly US has taken a wrong path of development, it is not too late now to go back to the original crossroad and then choose the correct way of development.
Imagine going through all the motions of attending the protest, planning a kidnapping and trial and all the money invested into their guns and ammo yet NOT taking a few minutes to look up the definition of treason. Holy balls.
More Fake News.
FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA. FAKE NEWS PROPAGANDA.
How many republican lawmaker help plan the kidnapping???????
more lies about the kidnapping hoax, to deflect what a lousy governor Big Retch turned out to be. can’t blame Trump now, Retchy
Wasen’t their hero leader caught hiding in a basement ?
People are just getting sick and tired of government! They are all becoming multi millionaires while our roads are falling apart or stores are closing down manufacturers closing up the little man self-employed has been wiped out and you have politicians acting like children what do you expect!
Why “unlikely” home? Why, Stephanie did you say that? How does it make sense? The words journos choose matter.
Have you EVER seen a home that looks like a place wherein terror plots are made?
I have not.
🤣🤣 she’s such a victim
I’m embarrassed to live in a country with all these idiots
So why weren’t they reported if all the neighbors knew about all the stuff going on?
People need to pay attention to their surroundings and report this stuff.
The only thing these hillbillies could take over is an all you can eat cheeseburger contest. Followed by flunking 7th grade.
The only thing kidnapping her is her over inflated ego.
The fact that the Republicunts took the side of the kidnappers over the Governor based purely on political differences proves they are a just an organized crime syndicate that should be prosecuted and eliminated under the Rico act. These fools are traitors committing treason for profit.
If found guilty no jail time just cut the arms
President Biden is 110 percent correct bringing our military out of Afghanistan. We have many homegrown terrorist criminals organizations in USA.
Whitmer is a FASCIST…😨
Trump is our LORD…and probably Almighty GOD…Trump is the TRUE President as Biden and his cackling sidekick Harris are FAKES and stole the election with clever computer FRAUD…making it undetectable..Mail in ballots without addresses or signatures were accepted by Democrat activists as long as it was a Biden vote..hundreds of thousands of these fraudelent ballots swung the swing States to Biden..even Obama is thought to have said that the vote totals were unusual and suspicious.
If you voted Biden and now your oil or gas related job is being eliminated by Biden using the infrastructure bill as a Trojan horse for AOC’s Green new communist deal..then just STFU and you deserve to be jobless..also if your children are still home due to teachers union preferring to stay at home or go on vacation on full pay due to Biden refusing to follow the CDC science based guidelines on school reopening then if you are complaining but voted Biden..then just STFU…Trump would have SAVED your Jobs and got your school brats back into school…
And if you are concerned about the invasion of America by southern border migrants flooding in with covid due to Bidens open borders policy and you voted Biden..then just STFU and you should be FORCED by gunpoint to house and feed these migrant parasites in your homes…..TRUMP IS GOD….🇺🇸🕇🇺🇸
Maybe the next group will be successful!! We here in Michigan can hope ..
All of those “Wolverine Watchmen” should have been shot and killed in an attempted coup on Michigan’s Capitol Building. Treason.
Over Covid restrictions? Just goes to show what abject fkn idiots these people are.
And who told them go to their capitals and demand that their governors open up their state?
Whitmer is a tyrant. Guns at the capitol building are totally legal. Stop freaking out
NO ONE wants this COW… enough.
These are the same idiots that stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 and now they are running to hide from the law like the cowards that they really are. But soon they will all be brought to justice just like their orange, psychopathic ring leader.
🤔 these people are dangerous they Don’t Rock the blue
Can’t fix crazy.
They were allowed to set a precedent, plant a seed for future unrest & more will follow if no public accountability and hard put down
Militia equal domestic terrorists. Bunch of paranoid people in an echo chamber. To militia everything is a threat.
They messed up a beautiful *OPPORTUNITY TO CLEAN UP THE SWAMP* !!!!
They just want to see that belly button
Jesus people are stupid
So that means you have to go after antifa too!!! But we know you won’t cause they are your minion’s…..
They are not militias. Stop calling them that. What they are is armed gangs.
Or, we could act like sane countries do and finally get rid of the fookin’ guns.
The governor looks psycho witch full of evil
That’s funny the whole thing was set up by a FBI agent undercover. All there charges have been dropped
Nobody is more terrified than the “In God we trust” people. They literally believe in demons and other magical nonsense. A normal life is like a nightmare to these victims of abusive childhood indoctrination (lies about hellfire when their parents were too lazy or stupid to explain why not to do something). To be this deranged and confused about basic reality has to be an extremely fearful and dangerous state of mind. Cage the danger like a wild animal, before reasoning people get hurt.
Slump should get in trouble for this as well as Jan. 6 he encouraged this also with those lies about LIBERATE MICHIGAN when he knew the virus was real and down played it remember it came from his own mouth lock that piece of sh.. up for life and all like him
This was allowed to happen by the republican political operation… the same operation that set aside the democratic elections and imposed a republican version of martial law in Detroit and poisoned the water in Flint. These Michiganders involved in the so-called militias need to be hunted down and arrested for treason.
Wow mind blowing that a United States governor was going to be kidnapped tortured and possibly worse for simply enacting public safety measures and protecting the residents of her state. This and the insurrection on January 6th can only lead to one conclusion.
Right wing conservatism is officially a mental disorder
The Dognappers Almost Mistook Whitmore 4A Dog
This is a great story to help Whitmer look like the victim after all the people she murdered in those nursing homes
Rabid white extremist groups were an epidemic under Trump. They’re still out there, but I think some have had second thoughts about organizing raids on politicians, after realizing Trump played them and used them like his personal attack dogs for his sick, twisted agenda.
and these people are why the covid numbers in mich going thru the roof
Every action have an equal and opposite reaction..
What a crappy Governor she is.
She was killing senior citizens like Andrew Cuomo did.
Neverforget
More like freedumb
crzy how everytime these militias protest nd go INTO CAPITALS. BLM are met 5 blocks down with military grade equipment from the police and get told to go home
Guns used to assault people are not “protected” under the Constitution.
Totally propaganda. Fear tactics from media to fit their narrative. Jive turkeys
yawn….
I’m wondering if that group has previous criminal records in other areas..
The stupidity of legalizing assault weapons has its consequences. The chickens are coming home to roost. God help the rest of us.
Impeach whitmer, her tyranny has gone to far!!
Describing what could happen to these calling for harm of political opposition ‘Trump’ and his political ‘friends’.
Threaten back… or educate us all on how we should see the laws and the rightness of those laws.