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Trump Calls On Blue State To Release Political ‘Hostage’ Who Questioned 2020 Election Results

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President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Colorado to release Tina Peters, an elderly gold star mother who was sentenced to nine years in prison after a highly controversial trial that was rife with accusations of political bias.

Peters, 69, served as the Mesa County Clerk and recorder until 2021, when she was accused of breaching the county’s election systems. Peters, who believed the county’s voting machines contained evidence of fraud and later facilitated the transfer of data to another individual.

The data was ultimately leaked online and presented at Lindell’s “cyber symposium” in August 2021.

In 2024, Peters was convicted on seven of ten charges, including three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the Colorado Secretary of State. The steep sentence of nine years in prison followed by three years of probation was highly controversial and unprecedented in the state.

Peters speaks with local outlet KREX 5 in 2021

At the sentencing hearing, Colorado District Judge Matthew Barrett, who was appointed by Democrat Governor Jared Polis, lectured Peters on her “privilege” and suggested this played a role in the harsh sentence.

“In arguing why I should impose a particular sentence, she tells me about her ailments, her loss, her struggles in life. But in reality, for those of you who may have been here earlier this morning and seeing some of the folks who’ve occupied that chair before Ms. Peters, there could be not much in the way of a comparison in terms of the type of sympathy one would extend to Ms. Peters,” the judge ranted.

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“Those folks didn’t have four lawyers representing them. They didn’t have a team of assistants helping them. They’re not getting rides in private jets all over the country. You know, the people who sit in that chair suffer, generally speaking, immeasurable trauma in life, struggle mightily with alcohol abuse, substance abuse, mental health struggles, family loss. They come from broken homes. The cards they were dealt were never the cards that you were dealt, Ms Peters.”

He went on to invoke her deceased son, Jordan — a former Navy Seal and combat veteran who died in a tragic accident in 2017 — before sentencing her to nine years in prison.

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In March of 2025, the Trump Administration filed a “statement of interest” in the Peters’ case.

The statement raised concerns about the “exceptionally lengthy sentence” imposed on Peters, the denial of bail during her appeal, and whether the prosecution was driven by “political pain” rather than justice. The DOJ further called on Colorado to release Peters while her appeal is pending.

On Monday night, President Trump increased pressure on the blue state by ordering the DOJ to take “all necessary action” to secure the release of Tina Peters.

“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. Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post.

Trump went on to note that while Democrat politicians have travelled to El Salvador to lobby for the return of an illegal alien with suspected ties to MS-13 and human traffickers, Peters was given an exceptionally long sentence for a case with no precedent.

“Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American,” the president’s post continued.

“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!”