‘Cruelly imprisoning’: Trump moves to help ‘innocent’ grandmother jailed by Democrats in her state
Tina Peters, formerly a clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, and a Republican, while trying to protect and preserve 2020 election results from her county, apparently briefly exposed an election systems password.
Democrats in her state put her in jail for nine years for that situation.
Now President Donald Trump is ordering the Department of Justice to help her.
The injustice of the sentence for Peters was made plain only a few months ago when it was revealed that Jena Griswold, the blue state’s Democrat secretary of state, was found to have posted an entire list of state election systems passwords online, but prosecutors gave her a pass.
In fact, Griswold played an integral role in hounding Peters when she made that copy of election results.
In a social media statement, Trump wrote, “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. 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. Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American. 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!”
Tina Peters is behind bars because what they did with the voting machines in Colorado to steal the election, they did all over the country & exposing it there exposes it everywhere This is incredibly important to many Americans who know this was a massive cover-up. pic.twitter.com/d7op6oXKXE
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) May 6, 2025
Trump directs the DOJ to take immediate action to free Tina Peters, a former Colorado County Clerk and Recorder who was sentenced to nine years in prison for trying to expose election fraud.
This is what I voted for. pic.twitter.com/FtVx8Ck9M7
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) May 6, 2025
FREE TINA PETERS!!!!! pic.twitter.com/8yODD0H2sl
— Marjorie Taylor Greene (@mtgreenee) May 6, 2025
I am glad to see President Trump address this situation after I sent a formal request to the FBI to look into the sentencing and treatment of Tina Peters.
Nine years in prison while Jena Griswold and her entire office avoids any type of legal accountability for releasing voting… pic.twitter.com/TOVzRwK4LE
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) May 6, 2025
President Trump just instructed the DOJ to Free Tina Peters. She tried to blow the whistle on election fraud that she witnessed in Colorado.
The judge insulted her, berated her, told her she had white “privilege” and then gave her 9 years in prison!
These are the kinds of… pic.twitter.com/HMaTIsS5HG
— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) May 6, 2025
In fact, Colorado is run by majority Democrats in the state House and Senate, and a Democrat, homosexual Jared Polis, is governor. Further, all of the members of the state Supreme Court are Democrats, and they took their partisanship to an extreme, wildly attempting to bar Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in the state.
Colorado also has firmly established a reputation as a dictatorial regime, having tried multiple times to control the thoughts and beliefs of business owners by mandating that they promote pro-LGBT ideologies in order to do business in the state.
Twice, the state has been trashed by the U.S. Supreme Court on that issue, and the result has been that innocent taxpayers must pay millions of dollars for the legal fees triggered by the leftist agenda adopted by the state’s regime.
WND previously reported on the Griswold scandal.
Griswold was exposed as having revealed dozens and dozens of state election systems passwords online for the 2024 election.
She was investigated, but authorities handed her a free pass for her behavior.
The leak was described as having come from her office, but it involved the current passwords for voting equipment in 34 Colorado counties.
Her actions were unveiled by an announcement from the Colorado Republican Party, which investigated. There were calls for her to take responsibility and resign and she refused.
Prosecutors now probing secretary of state over election-password catastrophe