Months after being exposed as a Federal “shake and bake” operation, the DOJ’s prosecution of the “kidnapping” case against Gretchen Whitmer ended in complete ignominy:
Exactly 18 months to the day, Birge’s prosecutors suffered a humiliating defeat in a Grand Rapids courtroom after a jury acquitted two of the men and deadlocked on the guilt of two others. (Two defendants pleaded guilty and testified for the government during the three-week trial). Despite endless resources and favorable rulings by the judge overseeing the case, the government failed to secure a single conviction in what the Justice Department considered one of its largest domestic terror investigations ever.
Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta, after a year and a half in prison, went home to their families on Friday night; Adam Fox, the alleged ringleader, and Barry Croft, Jr. remain incarcerated while Birge’s office prepares to retry the men—a fool’s errand, as they didn’t know each other prior to the FBI’s involvement in the faux plot and live almost 1,000 miles apart. (Croft resides in Delaware.) It’s a desperate attempt to save face, regardless of the lives and the principles of justice at stake.
Not only were jurors unpersuaded by Birge’s prosecutors, the jury instead seemed to believe defense attorneys’ arguments that their clients were entrapped by the FBI. At least a dozen FBI undercover agents and informants, working out of numerous FBI field offices across the eastern half of the country and at the direction of supervising agents, concocted and funded the sting operation. Dan Chappel, the main informant compensated at least $60,000 by the FBI for “bringing people together,” as his FBI handler ordered him, took the stand to explain his role. But his testimony was lackluster and ultimately did not convince the jury the men were guilty.
So, let’s review the facts as we know them today. The “attempt”
- Was a federal “shake and bake” – a setup driven by FBI agents and informants.
- It was released precisely in time to affect the 2020 election, where Whitmer’s mortal enemy,, Trump, was a candidate.l
How is this not election interference – which, we are reliably informed, is a threat to the very fiber of democracy, when it’s “Republican” yahoos trampling through the Capitol?
I shared a post about this on Facebook. My post was;
“Pro-Tip, if you want to secure convictions against a group of “extremists,” then you probably shouldn’t have the driving force behind the conspiracy be an FBI Informant that was following the directions of his handlers, including bringing in an undercover FBI agent to be the conspiracy’s explosives expert.
It’s just a suggestion though.”
Hoo boy — How dumb do you need to be to be “coerced” into trying to kidnap a Governor?
Repeatedly threatening to kill elected officials is now protected speech? And smoking weed is also a crippling drug addiction? Looks as if these gentlemen found a jury of their peers…
So it was an FBI hoax then troll? Thank you for admitting it.
Well, Emery, you stupid pile of dung, a. you weren’t at the trial and b. just because brainwashed morons like you, that believe everything that your media masters tell you, believe that both this incident and January 6 defendants should all be found guilty, doesn’t make it so. I’m laughing at you, you other brother Emery Incognito and Paddywhacker, because justice was served and you don’t like it. Look for more January 6 defendants to get acquitted. The guys that took plea deals, were undoubtedly threatened or COERCED into pleading, because their Federal Bumbling Idiot handlers told them to.
These federal undercover stings are obscenely expensive to conduct, and take years to plan. They are successful less than 1/2 the time.
When they succeed, 8/10 it’s because the targets were coerced into making confessions in exchange for leniency. When they fail, it’s *always* because of illegal acts by federal agents or assets. It’s not much of a surprise, given that these stings hinge on the operator’s ability to lie.
*Most* of these federal undercover stings take years to plan. This one was thrown together overnight, assembling a bag of incompetent, low IQ, lowlife scumbags who have no morals or scruples. The FBI is filled with such as they.
Fixed it.
I’ve heard that the FBI guy who ran the Wittmer kidnapping scam has since been promoted and is now the lead on investigating the January 6 “insurrectionists.”
Boy howdy, this is entertaining. It’s like a slow motion train wreck, filmed in UHDTV in super-slow-mo with a dozen trains carrying diesel fuel, fertilizer, LNG, and atom bombs converging on a roundhouse.
MP, you mean the guy who was arrested after beating up his wife after the group orgy or something?