New York Daily News

Trump fires up fans against Mich. gov

- BY DAVE GOLDINER

Trump supporters chanted “Lock her up!” Saturday when the president ranted about Michagan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a rally just 10 days after white supremacis­ts were busted for a kidnapping plot targeting her.

At a rally in Muskegon, Mich., President Trump grinned as the #MAGA throng ate up his denunciati­ons of Whitmer over the restrictio­ns she imposed to limit the spread of coronaviru­s in the hard-hit state.

“You gotta get your governor to open up your state,” Trump told thousands of cheering backers.

That’s when the crowd started chanting “Lock her up!”

The president made no effort to hide his support for the cheers, which mirror the plot by a gang of far right-wing radicals to kidnap Whitmer.

“Lock ’em all up,” Trump responded to the crowd.

The “lock her up” chant was a staple of Trump rallies in his successful 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton.

Whitmer took to Twitter to rebuke Trump before the rally was even over.

“This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that has put me and my family in danger,” she tweeted. “It has to stop.”

The FBI and the Department of Justice announced Oct. 8 that they broke up a plot hatched by a ring of 14 far right-wing activists to kidnap or assassinat­e Whitmer.

Trump has feuded with Whitmer for months and declined to offer his support to her after the plot was broken up.

The governor, who was on Democratic presidenti­al candidate Joe Biden’s vice presidenti­al short list, irked the far right with her early embrace of strict rules to limit the spread of the pandemic, which has killed more than 7,300 Michigande­rs.

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