Man charged in Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnap plot was pot-smoking "misfit" swayed by FBI informant, lawyer says

A lawyer for one of the men charged with planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday he was a hapless, pot-smoking "misfit" who was influenced by an FBI informant whom he met at a protest, not a mastermind of the 2020 plot as prosecutors allege.

Defense attorney Christopher Gibbons told jurors Adam Fox was practically homeless while living in the basement of a vacuum shop and brushing his teeth next door in a restaurant restroom.

"Adam Fox did not commit a crime in this case," Gibbons said during opening statements in a federal courtroom in Grand Rapids, Michigan.