President Donald Trump is demanding the discharge of Tina Peters, a former election official who parroted Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy theories and is serving 9 years in jail for compromising the safety of election gear.

In a post on Fact Social final night time, Trump wrote that “Radical Left Colorado Legal professional Common Phil Weiser ignores Illegals committing Violent Crimes like Rape and Homicide in his State and, as a substitute, jailed Tina Peters, a 69-year-old Gold Star mom who labored to show and doc Democrat Election Fraud. Tina is an harmless Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished within the type of Merciless and Uncommon Punishment.”

Trump mentioned he’s “directing the Division of Justice to take all mandatory motion to assist safe the discharge of this ‘hostage’ being held in a Colorado jail by the Democrats, for political causes.”

The previous Mesa County clerk was indicted in March 2022 on prices associated to the leak of voting-system BIOS passwords and different confidential info. Peters was convicted in August 2024 and later sentenced in a Colorado state courtroom.

“Your lies are well-documented and these convictions are critical,” twenty first Judicial District Choose Matthew Barrett told Peters at her October 2024 sentencing. “I’m satisfied you’ll do it yet again. You’re as defiant a defendant as this courtroom has ever seen.”

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After Peters’ August 2024 conviction, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said that “Tina Peters willfully compromised her personal election gear attempting to show Trump’s huge lie.”

Peters appealed her conviction in a Colorado appeals courtroom and individually sought reduction in US District Courtroom for the District of Colorado. She asked the federal court to order her launch on bond whereas the state courtroom system handles her attraction and mentioned her well being has deteriorated whereas being incarcerated.

Trump’s Justice Division submitted a filing on Peters’ behalf in March, saying the US has considerations about “the exceptionally prolonged sentence imposed relative to the conduct at subject, the First Modification implications of the trial courtroom’s October 2024 assertions regarding Ms. Peters, and whether or not Colorado’s denial of bail pending attraction was arbitrary or unreasonable below the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.”