Inside the FBI’s Manufactured Kidnapping Plot: An Interview with Christina Urso
The Sean Morgan Report
Sean Morgan
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🗓️ 8 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Sean Morgan with American Standard Media, and I'm here with Christina Urso, the creator of a documentary about the Whitmer Fednapping hoax. |
| 0:17.1 | Christina, can you tell us about when you first learned about this story and why it became important for you to cover? |
| 0:23.6 | So I first heard about this, like when the guys were arrested, that was October of 2020. |
| 0:30.8 | And it was one month before the election. |
| 0:34.7 | They did this, you know, big announcement where Whitmer was like smirking. |
| 0:40.6 | She was not acting like a victim would, like somebody that just learned that they were going to be, |
| 0:46.5 | you know, there was this group planning to kidnap and possibly kill her. Like, she looked gleeful, |
| 0:52.9 | right? And this, Michigan is a swing state. So I was like, |
| 0:57.2 | hmm, a little bit suspicious here. Plus, at that point, I've been working as an independent |
| 1:03.5 | journalist for a while, and I had already been looking into FBI misconduct prior to that. So |
| 1:10.4 | things like Pat Con, which is Patriot Conspiracy. This was an |
| 1:15.1 | FBI operation from the 90s that was targeting right-wing Christian militia groups, things like Ruby Ridge, |
| 1:24.9 | Waco, Oklahoma City. So when I saw the way that the arrests were being portrayed, |
| 1:31.6 | like I immediately was thinking, oh, it's Pat Con again. |
| 1:36.1 | And so, you know, I started reporting on the case pretty much from the beginning. |
| 1:42.1 | And so I'm imagining this is kind of similar to January 6th where a lot of these guys |
| 1:48.0 | didn't have resources to do a proper legal defense. |
| 1:52.4 | Yeah, of course. |
| 1:54.3 | It differs from January 6th in the fact that it was more personal for these guys. |
| 2:00.7 | January 6th, you had a bunch of people |
| 2:02.7 | that were kind of corralled into a trap that was set for them. And there were informants. |
| 2:07.8 | There were undercovers there that day. But in the Whitmer case, the FBI used a network of |
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