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Detailed explanation-1: -On October 8, 2020, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced the arrests of 13 men suspected of orchestrating a domestic terror plot to kidnap American politician Gretchen Whitmer, the Governor of Michigan, and otherwise using violence to overthrow the state government.

Detailed explanation-2: -Whitmer. From left, Paul Bellar, Joseph Morrison and Pete Musico. The three men accused of supporting a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor were convicted of all charges on October 26, 2022, a triumph for state prosecutors after months of mixed results in the main case in federal court.

Detailed explanation-3: -GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP)-The four men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were swayed by informants and federal agents who targeted them for their anti-government views, defense attorneys said Wednesday, portraying the men as big talkers and wannabes who never meant what they said.

Detailed explanation-4: -A Michigan federal judge sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 16 years in prison Tuesday. Prosecutors said that Adam Fox was the leader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her summer home in 2020.

Detailed explanation-5: -A federal jury acquitted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and deadlocked on the counts against two others, apparently agreeing to some degree with defense claims that FBI agents entrapped the men in a violent plot shortly before the 2020 election.