Alleged Whitmer kidnapping conspirators tried to recruit convenience store clerk

A Mugg & Bopps cashier in Jackson County testified Friday that a father and his son-in-law were so "angry with this lady" that they tried to recruit him to help kidnap the lady -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. After Pete Musico and Joseph Morrison participated in an April 2020 armed protest at the State Capitol, the two were so "amped up" that they discussed kidnapping or killing Whitmer at the convenience store. "They described the armed protest as the first time we stood up against the government," Shawn Toth testified today, noting that the defendants were so chatty with him because

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