Tina Peters is the one-time Mesa County (CO) clerk who was convicted in August 2024 on
three counts of attempting to influence a public official; conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation; official misconduct; violation of duty; and failure to comply with an order of the Secretary of State.
in her attempts to help overturn Biden’s victory in 2020. She was sentenced to nine years in prison and sent there immediately (technically, she was held in the county jail for a few months, then transferred to state prison).
Ever since, Trump has been trying to save her from the consequences of her actions. He tried to get her moved to federal prison — Trump admin eyes moving convicted election clerk Tina Peters to federal custody — or freed altogether: Who is Tina Peters? Trump calls for release of ex-clerk guilty of election data scheme.
The Colorado Dept. of Corrections turned down Trump’s demands. Tina Peters will remain in state custody, Colorado corrections agency says. So now the rabid right is demanding that Trump send in the troops and spring her loose. It started with Peters’s lawyer: MAGA lawyer wants Trump to send in the 101st Airborne to free election-denier Tina Peters (26 Nov):
An attorney representing jailed election-denier Tina Peters has backed sending in the U.S. military to bust his client out of prison, where she is currently languishing after being convicted over her part in the plot to overturn the 2020 election.
Peter Ticktin made the comments during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast Tuesday when he was asked if President Donald Trump should dispatch the celebrated 101st Airborne Division to free Peters, 70, the disgraced former county clerk of Mesa County, Colorado.
and from today’s news: Right-Wingers Are Calling For Military Intervention, Violence to Free Tina Peters:
Prominent right-wing figures are calling for the military to free Tina Peters, the Colorado election-denier-turned-MAGA-folk-hero who’s currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud.
The escalating rhetoric comes as the Trump administration aims to pressure Colorado officials to transfer Peters to federal custody — and underscores how springing Peters from prison has become a cause celebre among conspiracy-driven far-right activists. . . .
Mark Lynch, a South Carolina businessman who’s challenging Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) in the GOP primary, posted on social media that Peters “is rotting in prison in Colorado for trying to maintain a fair election in 2020.” . . .
In an anti-semitic screed on social media, far-right podcaster Joe Oltmann called for violence against several Colorado officials, who he claimed are responsible for Peters’ incarceration.
Trump and Hegseth just might do it. After all, what’s one more illegal order coming after all the other ones?
