Trump Claims Pardon for Tina Peters
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In a social media post, President Donald Trump said he was granting former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters a full pardon.
Tina Peters, 70, was convicted in October 2024 of facilitating unauthorized access to Mesa County's voting systems, seeking to uncover evidence of alleged election fraud. This breach led to sensitive election data being leaked online. She was later sentenced to nine years in prison at La Vista Correctional Facility.
The latest attempt by former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters to secure release from a state prison fizzled out in federal court Monday.
A federal judge on Monday refused to release from prison former Colorado clerk Tina Peters, the only ally of President Donald Trump currently behind bars for crimes related to the attempts to overturn the 2020 election.