Trump administration takes formal step toward freeing Tina Peters [View all]

DENVER — The Trump administration is taking an official step to spring election conspiracy heroine Tina Peters from prison in Colorado.

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 free Peters from custody.

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.

Far-right activists have repeatedly called for the Trump administration to use a novel maneuver to free Peters by first taking her into federal custody, perhaps by claiming she is a witness in a federal investigation into the 2020 election.

Peters has echoed Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

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