President Donald Trump is requiring the release of Tina Peters, a previous election authorities who parroted Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy theories and is serving 9 years in jail for jeopardizing the security of election devices.

In a post on Truth Social last night, Trump composed that “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.”

Trump stated he is “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.”

The previous Mesa County clerk was arraigned in March 2022 on charges connected to the leakage of voting-system BIOS passwords and other secret information. Peters was founded guilty in August 2024 and later on sentenced in a Colorado state court.

“Your lies are well-documented and these convictions are serious,” 21st Judicial District Judge Matthew Barrett informed Peters at her October 2024 sentencing. “I am convinced you would do it all over again. You are as defiant a defendant as this court has ever seen.”

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After Peters’ August 2024 conviction, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold stated that “Tina Peters willfully compromised her own election equipment trying to prove Trump’s big lie.”

Peters appealed her conviction in a Colorado appeals court and independently looked for relief in United States District Court for the District of Colorado. She asked the federal court to purchase her release on bond while the state court system manages her appeal and stated her health has actually weakened while being jailed.

Trump’s Justice Department sent a filing on Peters’ behalf in March, stating the United States has issues about “the exceptionally lengthy sentence imposed relative to the conduct at issue, the First Amendment implications of the trial court’s October 2024 assertions relating to Ms. Peters, and whether Colorado’s denial of bail pending appeal was arbitrary or unreasonable under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.”