GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—At least three groups affiliated with the Three Percenters organization were run by undercover FBI informants, defense attorney Christopher Gibbons said on March 9 during his opening statement in the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap conspiracy trial. Gibbons represents Adam Fox, one of the four defendants accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan’s governor in retaliation for her COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. As the alleged leader of Michigan’s chapter of the Three Percenters—an armed organization named after the notion that 3 percent of the colonists spearheaded the American Revolution—prosecutors say Fox was one of the main players in the failed scheme. But according to Gibbons, Fox’s so-called role as a high-ranking militia official is, in fact, an FBI concoction. Gibbons told the jury on March 9 that Fox was appointed to head the Michigan Three Percenters on June 6, 2020, at a convention of the organization’s chapters in Dublin, Ohio. …
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