Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox
Recently, Ed Martin Jr., the Justice Department's pardon attorney who advises the president, said he would take a hard look at recommending a pardon for two men convicted in federal court of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
"On the pardon front, we can't leave these guys behind," Ed Martin Jr. said last week on The Breanna Morello Show.
"In my opinion, these are victims—just like January 6," Martin said, referring to the rioters.
On Wednesday, President Trump echoed those sentiments, telling The Detroit News he will "take a look at" pardoning Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox, who were convicted in 2022 in Grand Rapids federal court. Croft received nearly 20 years in prison, and Fox got 16 years.
"It's been brought to my attention," Trump told a Detroit News reporter in the Oval Office, referring to the kidnapping case.
Martin, in his podcast interview, referred to the Whitmer case as a “fed-napping” plot, not a kidnapping plot—an apparent reference to the number of undercover FBI agents and informants who had infiltrated the group and built the case, Associated Press reported.
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