Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) said in a new interview that President Trump told her that he would not pardon those convicted of a failed plot to kidnap her in 2020.
“Well, I think anything short of condemning political violence does a disservice to everyone. I'll be honest with you, I talked to the President about a month ago and he asked me how I'd feel about this and I said I think it would be the wrong decision. I would oppose it and he said ‘okay, I'll drop it.’ Now, we see this revelation. So, I'm not sure how to process it,” Whitmer told Michigan Public Radio.
Whitmer noted she was one of the first public officials to condemn the attempted assassination of Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., adding that she will again reach out to the White House regarding the potential pardons.
“We don't take up arms and harm one another. And so, I'm going to make my thoughts on this known to the White House again,” Whitmer said in the interview, released Thursday. “And I hope that it's not an action that they take.”
The governor’s remarks came just a day after Trump showed openness to pardoning Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr., two men convicted for a failed plot to kidnap the Michigan governor from her vacation home during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak due to being dissatisfied with restrictions imposed in the state.
“I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job, I’ll be honest with you. It looked to me like some people said some stupid things, you know they were drinking, and I think they said stupid things,” Trump said on Wednesday.
“But I’ll take a look at that. A lot of people are asking me that question, from both sides actually. A lot of people think they got railroaded,” the president added. “A lot of people think they got railroaded and probably some people don’t.”
Fox was convicted and later sentenced to 16 years in prison on two conspiracy charges connected to the kidnapping plot and one more for planning to utilize a weapon to distract law enforcement by blowing up a bridge. Croft was sentenced to 19 years in jail in 2022 for charges stemming from the plot, along with another charge for having an unregistered explosive.
Three other men were found not guilty on all related counts in September 2023.
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