One year ago last Friday, former Mesa County, Colorado, Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison after being convicted for breaching her own election offices in the heart of Colorado’s Trump Country.
Now the 70-year-old is pleading for release from prison, claiming she’s broke even as a new Florida-based legal team and revamped fundraising website have emerged. President Donald Trump has waded into her state case, ordering the Justice Department to intervene for her freedom.
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“This woman is a real patriot, and they put her in jail for a long time,” Trump said in the Oval Office last month. “She touched the machines …. She’s trying to find out what was going on, and
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