Prosecutors urge jury to convict 2 men in Gov. Whitmer plot

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE
Associated Press

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Jurors are hearing closing arguments Monday in the retrial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The government has portrayed Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. as leaders of a wild plan to snatch Whitmer at her vacation home in Elk Rapids, Michigan, and trigger chaos across the U.S. Prosecutor Nils Kessler says the scheme was dark and violent. He told jurors that Fox and Croft were willing to kidnap Whitmer and hang her in order to trigger another American Revolution. But defense lawyers say Fox and Croft were big talkers exercising free speech and incapable of leading anything as extraordinary as a kidnapping. Croft is from Bear, Delaware, while Fox lived in the Grand Rapids area.