President Donald Trump called for former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters to be released from prison.
Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison over charges related to the 2020 election. She was found guilty on counts related to failing to comply with the Coloardo Secretary of State in relation to issues surrounding the Dominion Voting Systems voting machines.
“Radical Left Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser ignores Illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Murder in his State and, instead, jailed Tina Peters, a 69-year-old Gold Star mother who worked to expose and document Democrat Election Fraud,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “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. The same Democrat Party that flies to El Salvador to try to free an MS-13 Terrorist, is cruelly imprisoning, perhaps for life, a grandmother whose brave and heroic son gave his life for America. Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American. 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!”
In March, the Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest for the case, stating that the matter appeared “oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
