Trump said he's gonna pardon Tina Peters, this 70-year-old former county clerk from Mesa County in Colorado, who got nine years for messing with voting machines after the 2020 election. Colorado Democrats are calling it total BS and saying the president has zero authority to overrule a state conviction. Attorney General Phil Weiser thinks the whole thing is unconstitutional, and Secretary of State Jena Griswold is saying Trump's just getting desperate because his previous attempts to spring Peters have flopped.
The feds already tried to help her out by getting involved in her federal appeal and even attempted to transfer her to a federal lockup from state prison, where her lawyer says she's stuck in solitary. Peters has become this huge martyr figure for election deniers, and her supporters are hyping up some big showdown between Trump and Colorado over whether the pardon actually means anything.
The feds already tried to help her out by getting involved in her federal appeal and even attempted to transfer her to a federal lockup from state prison, where her lawyer says she's stuck in solitary. Peters has become this huge martyr figure for election deniers, and her supporters are hyping up some big showdown between Trump and Colorado over whether the pardon actually means anything.
