Trump admin threatens Colorado in bid to spring imprisoned election denier Tina Peters [View all]

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.