In yet another blatant display of political persecution, former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters, 68—a gold star mother—has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Last week, President Trump’s close friend and former schoolmate, Peter Ticktin, filed an amicus brief in support of Tina Peters in Colorado.
Ticktin’s brief supports Peters and her position. Here is an introductory paragraph from the brief:
The Defendant Tina Peters has a broad-based appeal pending to the Colorado Court of Appeals but also due to severe health concerns and the injustice of detention has filed a 28 U.S.C. § 2254 habeas corpus petition for release from incarceration – and thereby access to necessary medical care – pending her appeal on the main topics. The violation of her civil rights and constitutional rights support habeas relief of release pending the outcome of all appeals…
…Tina Peters has been prosecuted for exposing criminal misconduct of other Colorado officials – whether she intended that at the time or not. The Colorado Attorney General is even guilty of the now famous 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c) – obstruction of an official proceeding – as well as attempted destruction of evidence (attempted in Peters’ district, but surely completed in other parts of Colorado)…
…Tina Peters’ “crime” was to preserve a copy of the digital election records prior to the alteration of the software and database. She arranged a qualified expert to oversee the purported software “upgrade” mandated by the Secretary of State that would have erased election records in violation of 52 U.S.C. §20701.
In October 2024, Tina Peters, the former Mesa County Colorado Clerk was found guilty of three charges and sentenced to nine years in prison. She was jailed for preserving evidence from the 2020 elections that she was told to delete despite laws to preserve records for a length of time.
The nasty leftist judge berated her, insulted her and told her she had “white privilege!”
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!
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— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) May 6, 2025
Tina, a 68-year-old Gold Star Mother in poor health, is now serving nine years in prison for challenging the 2020 elections. The left wants her dead.
On Monday, just days after Peter Ticktin’s amicus brief was filed, President Trump directed the Department of Justice to take all necessary action to release this political prisoner from the Biden regime.
“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!”
Here is the post on Truth social.
