Mesa Country clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.
But President Donald Trump is calling her “a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.”
“Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election,” Trump posted Thursday on his Truth Social platform. “She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!”
Michael Flynn called for federal custody of Colorado clerk
Flynn, who served briefly as Trump’s first-term national security adviser, called Wednesday on Attorney General Pam Bondi to move Peters into federal custody, saying “she possesses critical information as a potential federal witness in the current investigation” of the 2020 election.
READ MORE: Republican election denier Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years in prison for voting data scheme
Jurors found Peters guilty for allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity.
The man was affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump when he lost to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
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