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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,184 posts) Sat Nov 15, 2025, 04:49 AM Saturday

Trump admin threatens Colorado in bid to spring imprisoned election denier Tina Peters

Trump admin threatens Colorado in bid to spring imprisoned election denier - Raw Story https://www.rawstory.com/tina-peters-2674297768/#

The Trump administration is taking steps to threaten the state of Colorado, in an attempt to compel the release of an infamous former Mesa County elections clerk serving a nine-year prison sentence for an illegal scheme to try to prove President Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories.

According to 9 News, "The Colorado Department of Corrections confirms it received notice from the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Nov. 12, a concrete move toward a speculative strategy" to spring Tina Peters. "President Trump cannot pardon the former Mesa County clerk, who is serving a nine-year prison term on state charges for a scheme to sneak fellow election deniers into Colorado’s voting systems in a search for election rigging."

Per Trump's pardon attorney Ed Martin, “We did it in a way that puts the right kind of pressure on them. If the feds say we want something, you change your tune.”

Trump has called Peters a "hostage" and in May directed the Justice Department to devise a plan to free her.

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Trump admin threatens Colorado in bid to spring imprisoned election denier Tina Peters (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Saturday OP

A bit more. I'd like a legal opinion on how he could spring her IF he could get her transferred to Federal prison...but hlthe2b Saturday #1

I hope Colorado tells the "Trump admin" to go f*ck yourselves. Liberal In Texas Saturday #2

Trump sez: If you conspire to commit election fraud on my behalf Martin Eden Saturday #3

Maddow Blog-A two-tiered system: Trump calls for Tina Peters to be freed from prison LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #4

hlthe2b

(112,156 posts)

1. A bit more. I'd like a legal opinion on how he could spring her IF he could get her transferred to Federal prison...but

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 06:17 AM

Saturday

but, I have not seen any mentions on the possible strategy underway...

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/11/14/colorado-tina-peters-prison-transfer-donald-trump/

Liberal In Texas

(15,823 posts)

2. I hope Colorado tells the "Trump admin" to go f*ck yourselves.

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 06:25 AM

Saturday

And the repubs claim that they're the "law and order" party. What a joke.

Martin Eden

(15,188 posts)

3. Trump sez: If you conspire to commit election fraud on my behalf

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 07:10 AM

Saturday

I will do everything I can to protect you.

Also those who commit violence (Jan 6).

LetMyPeopleVote

(172,793 posts)

4. Maddow Blog-A two-tiered system: Trump calls for Tina Peters to be freed from prison

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Original post)

Sat Nov 15, 2025, 03:23 PM

Saturday

Tina Peters was sent to prison after acting on Trump’s 2020 election lies. The president, indifferent to her guilt, now wants her freed.

MSNBC: A two-tiered system: Trump calls for Tina Peters to be freed from prison www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— (@jwwcan.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T18:59:49.136Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/two-tiered-system-trump-calls-tina-peters-freed-prison-rcna205070

In early March, Donald Trump’s Justice Department raised eyebrows with an unexpected move: The DOJ’s civil division unexpectedly filed a brief in federal court, raising “concerns” about the criminal conviction of a former Colorado clerk named Tina Peters.

The effort didn’t amount to much, but as NBC News reported, the president’s interest in the case has apparently intensified.

In a Truth Social post tonight, Trump called for former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters to be released from prison and said he was directing the Justice Department to take ‘all necessary action’ to help secure her release.

In a bizarre online harangue, Trump rewrote recent history, claiming that Peters simply “worked to expose and document Democrat [sic] Election Fraud.” He added, “Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment. This is a Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020.”

In case that weren’t quite enough, the president concluded, “I am hereby directing the Department of Justice to take all necessary action to help secure the release of this ‘hostage’ being held in a Colorado prison by the Democrats, for political reasons. FREE TINA PETERS, NOW!”......

Time will tell what, if anything, the Justice Department can do about Peters’ incarceration.

For all of the hysterical and baseless Republican conspiracy theories during Joe Biden’s presidency about “weaponized” prosecutions and a “two-tiered” justice system, Trump and his team are creating the very conditions the GOP condemned. The incumbent president — through his scandalous pardons, his intervention in cases such as Peters’ and his willingness to sic prosecutors on his perceived political enemies — is going out of his way to make clear that his allies will be held to different legal standards than everyone else.

The brazenness is so plainly ridiculous, the Republican administration is hardly even trying to keep up appearances — and there’s every reason to believe this will get worse in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

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