06-05-2025
Trump rips ‘radical left' Colorado attorney general over Peters prosecution
President Trump bashed Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser (D) for the prosecution of former election clerk Tina Peters, who was found guilty of tampering with voting machines after the 2020 election the president lost to former President Biden.
'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 Monday night on Truth Social.
'Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment,' he added.
The president called Peters's prosecution 'unjust' and directed the Justice Department to help secure her release. Peters, who was a Mesa County clerk, is serving a nine-year sentence at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo, according to Colorado Public Radio.
'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,' Trump continued in his post.
'Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American,' the president wrote. '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!'
Peters was found guilty in August on seven counts convicting her for assisting in facilitating unauthorized access to voting equipment after the 2020 election, aiming to bolster Trump's claim the election results were illegitimate.
Trump's Justice Department in March went to court to argue for Peters's release, and a federal judge is mulling whether he has jurisdiction to reject the department's filings, Colorado Public Radio reported.
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