LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will look into pardoning two men serving prison time for the 2020 kidnapping plot of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A member of the media asked Trump, “Will you pardon the people who are accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer?” The President responded, “”I will take a look at it. It’s been brought to my attention. I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job.”

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Over the weekend, a new pardon attorney for the Department of Justice said he would he would give the cases against Barry Croft and Adam Fox a second look.  “On the pardon front, we can’t leave these guys behind,” Ed Martin Jr said on the Breanna Morello Show. Croft and Fox are serving 20 and 16 years in prison respectively.

Michigan News Source contacted Gov. Whitmer’s office for a comment but did not receive a response by press time.