Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she is 'disappointed' that Trump is considering a pardon for men who plotted [View all]
Source: NBC News
May 29, 2025, 12:12 PM EDT / Updated May 29, 2025, 12:14 PM EDT
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday said that she's "very disappointed" that President Donald Trump is considering pardoning the men who were convicted of conspiring to kidnap her in 2020. The governor told NBC affiliate WOOD-TV that she's "very disappointed that they are even considering it, frankly."
During an Oval Office event on Wednesday, Trump said he would "take a look at" pardoning the men. He added that he watched the trial and it "looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job." Two key players in the kidnapping plot — Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. — are serving long prison sentences on federal charges.
Over a dozen men were originally charged in either state or federal courts in connection with the scheme. At the time, Whitmer said Trump was "complicit" in enabling extremism after comments he made about the Proud Boys during his 2020 presidential debate against Joe Biden. In her comments Thursday, Whitmer, a Democrat, pointed to her response to the attempted assassination of Trump at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
"You know, when the president was shot at in Pennsylvania, I was one of the first people on either side of the aisle to condemn it," Whitmer said Wednesday ahead of the Mackinac Policy Conference in Michigan. "We have to condemn political violence, no matter where it comes from, no matter who it’s aimed at. It does a disservice to everyone if we do anything short of that." The governor added, "I’ll be making my thoughts known to the White House and I hope they take it into consideration."
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