Interview · moment 28 of 33
FBI Informants in the Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
from The Joe Rogan Experience | #330 · #330
3 min
Guest
They discuss how 12 of the 14 people involved in the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot were FBI informants, and question whether the Boston Marathon bombers were similarly entangled with federal surveillance beforehand.
- People want to be part of something, and a charismatic leader like Trump exploits that desire until they're storming the Capitol.
- In the Whitmer kidnapping case, 12 out of 14 defendants were FBI informants; the two who weren't are serving long sentences.
- One of the defendants claimed the FBI coerced him into planning the entire operation.
- In the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI said they didn't know who the Tsarnaevs were, but Russian intelligence had already warned them.
- Senator Chuck Grassley questioned the FBI about surveillance in the Tsarnaevs' neighborhood the night MIT officer Sean Collier was killed.
- The FBI's explanation for being near MIT that night—that they were there for a separate reason—raised more questions than answers.
- During a routine interview at a friend's house, four FBI agents were present when one of the Tsarnaevs' friends ended up dead from gunshots.
Chuck GrassleyDonald TrumpGraham FullerBoston BomberFBISean CollierWhitmer case