Michigan jury convicts 2 men of conspiracy to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer

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Two men accused of plotting to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer with a bomb were found guilty Tuesday.

After beginning deliberations Monday, a jury convicted Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. of conspiracy to kidnap Whitmer. Both were also found guilty of attempting to procure a weapon of mass destruction.

The jury heard closing arguments on Monday as the government tried for a second time to secure convictions in an alleged plot to trigger a revolution in 2020.

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After a nine-day trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler repeatedly urged jurors to focus on what Fox and Croft were saying months before the FBI placed undercover agents and informants inside the group that summer.

Barry Croft Jr., left, and Adam Fox have been convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 over their disgust with restrictions early in the COVID-19 pandemic. (Kent County Sheriff's Office via AP)

"These defendants were outside a woman’s house in the middle of the night with night-vision goggles and guns and a plan to kidnap her," Kessler said. "And they made a real bomb. That's far enough, isn't it?"

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Defense lawyers, however, portrayed Fox and Croft as "big talkers," a bumbling, foul-mouthed, marijuana-smoking pair exercising free speech and incapable of leading anything as extraordinary as an abduction of a public official. They claimed FBI agents and informants fed their outrage and pulled them into their web.

A jury in April failed to reach a unanimous verdict on Fox and Croft.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.