Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Informant Was a Liability. Federal Agents Shut Him Up.

THE FBI’S DOUBLE AGENT The Informant at the Heart of the Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Was a Liability. So Federal Agents Shut Him Up. - Trevor Aaronson, Eric L. VanDussen 

"A MONTH BEFORE the 2020 presidential election...

The alleged plot coincided with growing concern about far-right political violence in America. 

But the FBI quickly realized it had a problem: 

A key informant in the case, a career snitch with a long rap sheet, had helped to orchestrate the kidnapping plot. During the undercover sting, the FBI ignored crimes that the informant, Stephen Robeson, appeared to have committed, including fraud and illegal possession of a sniper rifle...