Overview
- Trump used a New Year’s Eve Truth Social post to defend Tina Peters and to attack Gov. Jared Polis and the Republican district attorney who prosecuted her case.
- Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk, is serving a nine-year sentence on seven Colorado charges stemming from a 2020 election-system breach.
- Prosecutors said Peters let an associate of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell access county election software, with counts including three for attempting to influence a public servant and one for criminal impersonation.
- Earlier this month Trump claimed he granted Peters a full pardon, but presidential clemency does not apply to state crimes.
- The Colorado Court of Appeals allowed the state attorney general’s office to respond by January 8 to Peters’ bid to have the claimed pardon recognized and to seek her release.