Lawgeeks, you can read the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint against militia members who plotted to kidnap Gov. Whitmer courtesy of Detroit News --> detroitnews.com/story/news/loc…
Entrance to the plot, according to the affidavit:
•Croft and Fox met through social media.
•CHS-1 comes in at June 6 right-wing Ohio meet-up.
•Garbin (militia leadership)and CHS-2 come in at the June 18 Second Amendment rally in Lansing.
•Franks, Caserta come in at a tactical training camp June 28.
•Harris is at a meet-up in Ohio in July 18 where they talk about shooting up Whitmer's vacation home.
This could have gone bad so fast. While they were surveilling Whitmer's vacation home, one of the participants, the one who had made an IED, suggested "they conduct an act of violence that night."
He "was eventually dissuaded of this notion" by the others.
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Huh, that's a little weird. The McCloskey's have been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering.
But no details yet as the indictment isn't available (ugh, stone age courts). kmov.com/news/mccloskey…
I would imagine the GJ was told that the gun wasn't actually disabled at the time of the confrontation outside their house, and was subsequently tampered with before the police seized it.
But recall the McCloskey's said it had previously been disabled for use during a trial.
BTW, according to the Michigan AG, she learned during the investigation that similar robocalls were made in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois.
So this may only be the start of Burkman and Wohl's problems.
Here's a transcript of the Burkman/Wohl voter-suppression robocall.
They were clever enough to include their own names.
Fed. judge rejects Trump campaign's lawsuit seeking to prevent the governor's order allowing counties to opt-in to mailed voting. ecf.mtd.uscourts.gov/doc1/111127887…
This is a slap.
"Plaintiffs have not introduced even an ounce of evidence supporting the assertion that Montana’s use of mail ballots will inundate the election with fraud."