President Donald Trump touched on the nine-year prison sentence of former Colorado election clerk Tina Peters again this month, telling Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) and Mesa County District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein on Wednesday to “rot in Hell” for incarcerating the 2020 election denier.
The fiery statement came weeks after Trump granted a “full pardon” to Peters. The presidential pardon was symbolic because her conviction rested on state charges, not federal.
In 2024, the former Mesa County election clerk was sentenced for tampering with voting equipment to prove unsubstantiated voter fraud claims in 2020. Trump said she was unfairly imprisoned.
“God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick,
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