Election-denial celebrity Tina Peters will leave prison early thanks to Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who was rebuked by nearly 90% of state party members for shortening her prison term by seven years, reported The Gazette.
Peters was an unknown county clerk who in 2020 gave conspiracists access to voting machine data, which they published online. Mike Lindell made her a star. Health and wealth preacher Andrew Wommack organized rallies for Peters, “the epitome of the American patriot.” Her story was made into a movie.
Jared Polis
The fun ended in 2024 when she was sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of seven crimes, including four felonies. The judge called her a charlatan. She claimed to be a godly whistleblower.
“I’m not a criminal,” said an unrepentant Peters, who was heard laughing and crying at her sentencing hearing. “It is with a heavy heart that I hear the vile accusations and the anger leveled against me for what I did to serve the people of Mesa County.”
But the 70-year-old prisoner finally admitted she had sinned in a January clemency application to term-limited Gov. Polis, as The New York Times reported.
“That was wrong,” Peters said in her application, part of which was read publicly by the governor. “Going forward, I will make sure that my actions always follow the law, and I will avoid the mistakes of the past.”
Peters remains unrepentant and claims she’s an innocent victim who is “in prison for following the law and doing what was right.”
That admission helped seal the deal for Polis, who had faced enormous pressure from President Donald Trump to “FREE TINA!”
But in an online fundraising campaign, Peters remains unrepentant and claims she’s an innocent victim who is “in prison for following the law and doing what was right.”
Trump pardoned Peters last December, but he had no authority over her Colorado sentence, where Polis refused to pardon her. Trump also tried to have her moved to a federal prison where he could order her release.
Trump turned up the heat with “a series of funding cuts and other actions aimed at Colorado, including killing a water pipeline for rural ranchers, moving the U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs to Alabama and dismantling a leading federal climate center in Boulder,” said the Times.
On May 15, Polis commuted — or shortened — Peters’ sentence, which he criticized as overly harsh for a first-time offender. She is expected to be released June 1. The Democrats’ rebuke prevents Polis from speaking at any party functions until further notice.
Peters hasn’t yet updated her fundraising page on the conservative Christian platform GiveSendGo, where she continues to proclaim her innocence as she seeks to raise $50,000 a month from donors.
A March update to Peters’ fundraising page features her photo with Trump alongside Trump’s false claims about her case: “Tina Peters, a 73-year-old woman with cancer, was given a nine-year jail sentence in Colorado because she caught the Democrats CHEATING on the Presidential Election of 2020. FREE TINA! President DJT.”
Peters’ fundraising page continues to proclaim her innocence and says she was “thrown to the vipers” and has “faced persecution, character insults or outright harassment and intimidation.”
“Never in my life of 35 years of marriage, a business owner for 32, home schooling my two children, with a Navy SEAL son and a Marine husband, did I ever imagine I would end up in prison for following the law and doing what was right. This should scare every citizen of this country. It shows how close we have come to losing this nation and our liberty that so many before us died to protect. But God chose you, Mr. President, and each one of us that will rise up and answer the call.”
Elsewhere on her page, Peters says she “will never give up” on her fight. “The truth matters. God, family and the future of this nation that we leave to those after we are gone truly matter. These are the things I continue fighting for. I will never give up. My fight is far from over and I can’t do it without you.”
In fact, Peters did break the law as determined in a Colorado court of law. Her claims that she was “following the law” are demonstrably false.
A statement from Colorado Democrats explains: “Tina Peters sought to overturn the election results and committed a serious crime. She was prosecuted by a Republican district attorney in a conservative county and convicted by a jury of her peers. Her actions threatened our elections, and commuting her sentence sends exactly the wrong message at a time when the Trump administration is threatening vote-by-mail and working to undermine our democracy.”
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