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Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison.

President Donald Trump claimed that he is granting a "full pardon" to Tina Peters, a former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was sentenced to nine years on state-level charges related to election interference during the 2020 election.

However, the president does not have jurisdiction over state charges, and Colorado officials are pushing back, contending that the president's promise of a pardon is unconstitutional. Trump's announcement, which he made on social media Thursday, now likely sets up a legal battle for Peters, who has been seeking a pardon from Trump.

Peters was convicted in August 2024 for giving an individual affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump ally, access to the election software she used for her county. Screenshots of the software appeared on right-wing websites that promoted false theories that the 2020 election was fraudulent.

Despite President Trump's repeated assertions that the election was rigged, there were no proven cases of major fraud that affected the outcome.

Trump has repeatedly called for Peters to be released from her nine-year sentence, and on Thursday night said on social media that he was "granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!"

"Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the 'crime' of demanding Honest Elections," he said.



Trump's announcement came as the administration attempted to move Peters to federal custody in order to have more jurisdiction over her. The move was denied by the courts.

In August, the president said in a social media post that if Peters wasn't released, he would "take harsh measures."

Colorado officials, however, questioned Trump's authority over Peters' conviction and pushed back against his claims.

"One of the most basic principles of our constitution is that states have independent sovereignty and manage our own criminal justice systems without interference from the federal government," Colorado Attorney General Phill Weiser said in a statement Thursday.

"The idea that a president could pardon someone tried and convicted in state court has no precedent in American law, would be an outrageous departure from what our constitution requires, and will not hold up," he added.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold added that Peters "was convicted by a jury of her peers for state crimes in a state Court. Trump has no constitutional authority to pardon her."

"His assault is not just on our democracy, but on states' rights and the American Constitution," she said in a statement.

As of Friday morning, no legal action has been taken against the Trump Administration over the president's announcement.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...o-election-clerk-tina/story?id=128344883

Party of law and order my @$$.

Laughable… and meaningless… Tina Peters was convicted and in jail in the State of Colorado.

A fedora pardon has no jurisdiction. None, nada, zippo, nyet, none.

A swing and a miss….

We all know he's a despicable excuse for a human being. Even the maga fan boys have admitted that. But remember what they said... Don't worry about what he's SAYS... Only worry about what he does. Right?

Oh ... Hang on....

I guess this is like the "policing the world" thing. Against it untill trump does it .. Fed Gov should only protect our borders ... Until Trump wants to pull his draws down and take a steaming dump on States Rights and constitution. 💩

Would love to hear someone defend and support this.... But of course their all in hiding.


*Posted to the wrong forum previously !

She ain’t going free any time soon.

lol…Trump loves cheats. So do his supporters.

I agree that he doesn't have the authority.

I am a little confused by your policing the world comment.

Are you okay?

I'm great.

How about you? Are you happy with Trump trying to usurp States Rights?

Well before the election - and right through the Obama and Biden administrations, I kept hearing from Republicans/MAGA how the USA should not be active around the globe trying to police the world and keep it secure. "We shouldn't police the world" was a very popular statement from many on the right. We should protect our borders, spend our money on the betterment of the USA. Focus on home. But now - Trump is actively trying to promote regime change in multiple different countries, he's given Argintina $40B - for now really justiable reason. He's talked about taking some sort of stake in Gaza, Greenland (and we'll overlook the childish rhetoric and trolling of Canada) - he's commiting piracy on the ocean and dangerously close to starting a war with Venuzuala, a country that does not produce 99.9% of the drugs in the USA. Why are drugs impotant ? Because that is the bogus justification for the (probably illegal) targeting and killing of people who **might** be running drugs to the USA. . . . All of those things fly in the face of the concept of focusing on the USA.

And I mention all that because MAGA will somehow justify all of it by drinking the Trump BS, also known as Koolaid. Just like someohow there are MAGA supporters who think Trump is right to try to pardon this individual even though it flies in the face of everything we previously accepted as the norm regarding States Rights.

I think he is looking at the Monroe Doctrine. Good for him. Keep an eye out for the western hemisphere.

Know it or not, the USA is under attack by foreign forces.

The US and the West is under check. Yes. The most serious and egregious aggressor is Putin. But because Putin owns trump, trump has announced that Russia is not a threat to the USA.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-shadow-war-against-west


And whether the US is under attack or not. Is not the question.... The question is whether we're a nation of laws and expect the president to respect those laws... It seems very obvious to anyone paying attention that he does not. Some will try and justify it. Others will call out for what it is.