Adam Fox (File photo)
A defendant said he wanted to restrain the governor on a table, referring to her as a "tyrant," according to a FBI recording played Thursday in the Whitmer kidnapping trial in Grand Rapids.
“We want her flex-cuffed on a table while we all pose and get our pictures taken like we just made the biggest drug bust in ... history,” defendant Adam Fox told an undercover FBI agent who was wired to record the conversation, according to Ed White of the Associated Press.
“Drive [her] out to the middle of Lake Michigan, drop the f—ing motor, leave her there with nothing, stranded in the middle of the f—ing lake,” Fox says on the recorded evidence. “And just leave her.”
Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta are accused of plotting to kidnap Whitmer in 2020 at her vacation home on Birch Lake in Elk Rapids. The alleged plot came as some Michigan residents voiced anger over Covid restrictions imposed by the governor.
“Tyranny is coming harder and harder down on the people,” Caserta says in one of the undercover recordings.
FBI agent Mark Schweers told federal jurors he was posing as an Upper Peninsula resident with like-minded views when he met Fox in the basement of a vacuum shop in suburban Grand Rapids, a hideaway accessed by a trap door, AP says.
Fox also talked about teaming up with the Wolverine Watchmen militia group to restore a “constitutional republic.”
