Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says she still fears for her family’s safety almost three years after the FBI became aware of a scheme to overthrow the state government, kidnap her at her vacation home, and detonate explosives to disrupt police responding to the abduction.

“My whole family’s made sacrifices [in the name of safety],” Whitmer, a Democrat, said in an interview withWho’s Talking to Chris Wallace?which will air Friday and was shared exclusively with PEOPLE.

Whitmer was the target of ire from formerPresident Donald Trump, who repeatedly, and publicly, criticized the Democrat both before and after the attempted attack, which was thwarted in Oct. 2020.

At that time, the FBI said it had become aware of the alleged scheme targeting Whitmer through social media, according to acriminal complaint. Officials alleged that six individuals plotted the “violent overthrow of certain government and law-enforcement components” that they believe were “violating the U.S. Constitution.”

More than a dozen people were arrested and charged for their alleged involvement in the plot.

Speaking to Wallace, Whitmer recounted the day the attack was thwarted. “My girls, I remember we were all home and there were people with long guns on the front lawn, right outside the gate. And they came out and they said, ‘Whats going on?’ And you could hear it — the vitriol and the ugliness.”

In August 2022, a federal jury in Grand Rapids convicted two men — Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. — of kidnapping conspiracy and conspiracy to possess weapons of mass destruction in connection with the plot. Croft was also convicted on an additional weapons charge,Detroit Free Pressreported.

The men, who’ll be sentenced at a later date, face up to life in prison.

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Now, more than two years later, Whitmer told Wallace she still worries about her safety—and Trump, she added, is part of that.

“I think about [being in danger]everywhere I go,” Whitmer said. “The former president made me a target and threw a lot of gas on the fire and it has continued to burn. And I think about it everywhere I go.”

She continued: “There are times when I am in public — and I’ve got the greatest state police detail in the world — but there are big crowds sometimes, and it does cross my mind.”

New episodes ofWho’s Talking to Chris Wallace?are available Fridays on HBO Max, and air Sundays at 7 p.m. Eastern on CNN.

source: people.com