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Hours after police foiled an alleged plot to kidnap her, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer argued in a speech Thursday that President Donald Trump’s words had been a “rallying cry” for extremists. Whitmer, a Democrat, said the Republican president has spent the past seven months of the coronavirus pandemic “denying the …

Thirteen people, including seven men associated with the Wolverine Watchmen group of militiamen, have been arrested in a wide-ranging takedown of plots to kidnap the Governor of Michigan, attack the state capitol building and incite violence. The group aimed to kidnap the governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat who has traded …