Who is Tina Peters? Donald Trump demands the electoral clerk to be released

President Donald Trump asked Tina Peters, an election hunter in Colorado, who was convicted of manipulation for voting rights after the 2020 presidential election.

Trump about the social truth about the social issue of the social of truth said: “Radical left the Attorney General of Colorado, Phil Weiser, Illegal, who committed violent crimes such as rape and murder in his state, and instead, Tina Peters, a 69-year-old gold star mother who was working to expose and document the democrat choice.

“Tina is an innocent political prisoner who is punished terrible and wrongly in the form of cruel and unusual punishment. This is a communist persecution of the radical democrats to cover up their election crimes and misdeeds in 2020.

“The same Democrat party that El Salvador flies to free an MS-13 terrorist is cruel. Peters, now!”

In response to this, the Foreign Minister of Colorado, Jena Griswold, said: “Tina Peters is a criminal who has compromised her own election equipment to try to prove Trump’s great lie. Trump would not allow him to rewrite the story or use his lies to create two levels of the judiciary for the American people.”

Why is it important

Peters has become a symbol of election refusal movements that, despite the lack of evidence and repeated court violation of such claims, continue to doubt the integrity of US elections. Trump’s public urge for her release increases political pressure on a legal case in which serious election injuries are involved.

What to know?

The President’s claim according to Peters’ publication marks the recent development in a growing advance of some federal officials to free the former election hunter in Colorado, who serves a nine -year prison sentence in La Vista Correctional Facility.

In March, the Ministry of Justice took an unusual step by submitting a court act that could help Peters, but the prosecutors in Colorado asked a federal judge to reject him. The judge has not yet decided until a decision decides whether the court is responsible.

In the meantime, Peters supporters have used the governor Jared Polis and the legislator for interventions. While the legislators have no power about their punishment, the governor has the authority to grant grace or forgiveness. So far, Peters has not submitted a formal application, and the Polis office previously said that grace would only take into account its merits and not in response to political printing.

Who is Tina Peters?

Peters is a former Mesa County employee who became a prominent personality in the election movement after the US presidential election in 2020. Peters was elected in 2018 and initially focused on the administrative improvements, but later tuned to the efforts to question the legitimacy of the election results in 2020.

In 2021, she made unauthorized access to the coordination systems of her district and tried to uncover evidence of alleged voting fraud. This violation meant that sensitive election data was leaked online.

In October Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison, which sentenced to the first election officer in the United States for criminal prosecution in connection with the efforts to announce the 2020 presidential election.

During her conviction, judge Matthew Barrett delivered a devastating transfer and said that it was obvious that Peters had not shown any regrets for her actions. Barrett described Peters as “defiantly as a defendant the court has ever seen,” and added that he believed that she would repeat her actions if she had the chance. He accused her of making it known, even though she insisted that she never wanted attention.

The judge further said that Peters showed little consideration for the judicial system, the law enforcement authorities, government officials or her own colleagues and that she had abused the authority of her office. He said that she did not take her duties as an employee “particularly seriously” and added that she never met the necessary certification and that “one scandal after the other in her time as an employee followed them.”

Barrett came to the conclusion: “You are not a hero. You have misused your position, and you are a Charlatan that is used and still uses your previous position in the office to kick a snake oil that is always junk.”

At the negotiation, the prosecutors said that Peters was looking for famous and had become “fixed” on election questions after dealing with people who questioned the results of the presidential election.

What did Tina Peters do?

In August Peters was found guilty of seven out of ten charges for the election system in Colorado. She was convicted of three cases because she had tried to influence an official, a conspiracy to commit criminal identity, official misconduct, to comply with the obligation and the failure to adhere to an order from the Foreign Minister.

The jury released her for three other charges: conspiracy to commit criminal identity, criminal identity and theft of identity.

The attempt included eight days. It centered on events from May 2021 when Peters was accused of

Peters was condemned because a security card in the district was misused, which was granted access to the Mesa County electy system of a person who is connected to Mypillow CEO Mike Lindell. She was also found guilty of deceiving other civil servants about the man’s identity.

State audits confirmed the accuracy of the elections in Colorado in Colorado, whereby no evidence for fraud was determined and the checking of the counts of the machine voices corresponded to the markings for paper voting.

What happens next

Peters’ case is still pending and she stays in prison.

Update 5/7/25, 4:06 a.m. ET: This article has been updated with a comment by Jena Griswold.