The Plot to Kidnap the Governor

How a group of thirteen men plotted to destroy the entire government in the state of Michigan.

Carter Covington
3 min readOct 15, 2020
Photo credit to CNN (2020)

Whichever side of the aisle you are on politically, we can all agree that there is a cultural and political divide in the United States. There is no denying it.

This political divide all came in 2016 when, now President, Donald J Trump ran for the White House. We saw people all over the country love him and we saw people absolutely despise him. Even in 2020, as President Trump is running against former Vice President Joe Biden, there does not seem to be many in the middle, politically speaking.

So, could politics drive a group of people to attempt to kidnap their own Governor and destroy the entire state of Michigan?

In 2020 anything is possible.

This is the story of how one group of Michigan residents attempted to take their own Governor hostage and bomb their capital building and the entire city of Detriot.

The Plot

Although the general public does not know the names of the men that wanted to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer, we do know the details of their extreme plot.

In early 2020, the FBI received a very suspicious tip from their urgent tip line…

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