“Group Wanted to Kidnap Michigan Governor and Block Biden’s Election, Plotter Says”

New York Times:

To hear Ty Garbin tell it, the kidnapping of Michigan’s Democratic governor would have been just the beginning.

By abducting Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Mr. Garbin and other plotters hoped, he said, to set off a chain of events that would prevent Joseph R. Biden Jr. from being elected president and perhaps foment a civil war.

“The plan was for us to basically be the ignition to it, and hopefully other states or other groups would follow,” said Mr. Garbin, who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to kidnap the governor and who testified this week at the federal trial of four other men accused of participating in the plot.

And from later in the piece, “But there has been vast disagreement in court about how close they were to carrying out any attack, and about what their exact plan even was.”

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