President Trump did what no one else in power was willing to do and stepped in for Tina Peters, a 69 year old Gold Star mother who has been rotting in a Colorado state prison for the unforgivable offense of questioning the 2020 election. On Thursday, President Trump granted Peters a full pardon, calling out Democrats for what this case has always looked like, political persecution dressed up as justice.
Peters, the former Mesa County Clerk and an outspoken election integrity advocate, is serving a nine year sentence on state charges tied to her efforts to examine voting systems after the 2020 election. She is elderly, reportedly in poor health, and lost a son who served this country. None of that mattered to the left. Last week, a magistrate judge tossed her habeas corpus petition aside, making it clear mercy was not on the menu.
President Trump did not sugarcoat his reasoning. In a Truth Social post, he said Democrats ignore violent crime while obsessively prosecuting anyone who dares challenge them politically. “Democrats only think there is one crime – Not voting for them!” he wrote, adding that Peters is sitting in prison for the “crime” of demanding honest elections. Trump called her a patriot and said the relentless targeting of her exposed exactly what the left’s priorities are.
That pardon sent Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser into a full blown media meltdown. Appearing on local television, Weiser raged that Trump’s action was “lawless” and had “no basis in American law.” Conveniently, this all happened while Weiser is running for governor, which surely has nothing to do with the performance. He insisted the pardon would not free Peters and bragged about suing President Trump “45 times and counting,” as if that were some kind of résumé highlight instead of a confession.
Weiser went even further, calling Peters’ legal arguments “total garbage” and accusing President Trump of bullying the state. According to him, Colorado plans to fight and resist, because apparently the rule of law only applies when Democrats are in charge of defining it. He even dragged Benjamin Franklin into the rant, which is usually a sign someone is trying very hard to sound noble while doing something deeply ugly.
President Trump had already called Weiser out back in May, accusing him of ignoring violent crimes by illegal aliens while throwing a peaceful grandmother behind bars. Trump labeled Peters an innocent political prisoner and described her punishment as cruel and unusual, the kind of language usually reserved for regimes Democrats claim to oppose.
The legal wrangling over state versus federal authority will play out in court, but the moral clarity of this moment is already obvious. A woman who tried to expose election problems was crushed by the system, while real criminals roam free. President Trump drew a line and said enough.
This case was never just about Tina Peters. It was about sending a message. President Trump answered with one of his own.
Thank you President Trump!
Strongly encourage people to listen to Steve Bannon’s interview with Tina Peters’ lawyer which explains how she was railroaded by a rotten judge at trial who refused to let jurors listen to her defense of her actions meant to ensure compliance with federal election law. The Sec/State destroyed records and Tina was preserving them in accordance with federal law. The judge slimed her as a “charlatan”! He’s a lawfare judge, abusing our justice system in pursuit of political objectives. Tina is a political prisoner in a radical blue state and was denied a fair trial- just as jurors were denied evidence which would have found her innocent of the only charge for which she was convicted (she was acquitted on 3 of 4). Her 9 year sentence is obscene & meant to dissuade others from fighting election fraud & rigging.
Yep. I lived in CO for 30 years until I moved to MO last year. CO has been registering non-citizens to vote for many years. It is illegal to register non-citizens to vote, but DMVs are operated by states. Gov (now Senator) Hickenlooper started the open process of giving illegals driver licenses, so the DMV also registered them to vote. Gov Polis continued it and expanded voter registration to all state offices. Hick and Polis claim cell phone videos of DMV managers instructing DMV employees are fake. The videos show the managers telling employees,”You will not ask about citizenship! This is the State of Colorado. We are not the Federal Government! We do not cooperate with CBP, INS, DHS, or ICE. You will accept all proof of identity, including hand written notes and verbal statements.”
What State is tina Peters serving time? I. In Colorado, same thing the Democrat controlled states hate Donald Trump and anything Republican. The only good Demonrat is a dead one. FTD
The Trump DOJ can take jurisdiction in the case. They can launch a civil rights investigation.