Posted on 12/20/2025 7:31:00 AM PST by MtnClimber
"The prison sentence made Ms. Peters, 70, a martyr for the election-denial movement, and launched a fruitless campaign by Mr. Trump’s followers to win her release from state prison." —The NY Times.
Tina Peters, sentenced in Colorado.
“Election denier” is a curious term. It implies that anyone who even questions the validity of an election is not right in the head, maybe even. . . a heretic, a sociopath, a criminal, an enemy of the people! The New York Times flogs the term incessantly as a sort of talisman, to ward off suspicions (branded as evil) that US elections are anything but free, fair, and upright.
Tina Peters was County Clerk in Mesa County, western Colorado, at the time of the 2020 elections, which Donald Trump won in her county by a 63-percent margin, though “Joe Biden” won the state. In May, 2021, during a so-called “trusted build” update of her county’s Dominion ballot tabulation machine software, Tina Peters sought evidence that the machines were capable of being manipulated by wireless internet. She made copies of the hard drives and published passwords online, exposing proprietary software and sensitive system information. She was indicted in 2022 on 13 counts and convicted in August of 2024 on seven counts.
Judge Matthew Barrett threw the book at her, handing the then-69-year-old grandmother a nine-year stretch in state prison. His spoken remarks at sentencing included: “You are no hero. . .” “You’re a charlatan who used, and is still using your prior position to peddle snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again. . .” “You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen. . .” “Prison is where we send people who are a danger to all of us, whether it be by the pen or the sword or the word of the mouth.”
Rather harsh treatment, wouldn’t you say? A classic case of someone being made an example of, as a caution to others who might dare to question an election. Of course, many of us who stayed up late Nov. 3-4, 2020, saw what looked like considerable shenanigans reported from voting precincts around the country. There were the weird flipperooskies in Michigan and Wisconsin where Mr. Trump was winning by a lot, and then, suddenly, at two o’clock in the morning, “Joe Biden” shot way ahead. The explanation has been that Republicans show up to vote on election day and their votes are counted early while more Democrats voted by mail-in ballots, which are counted later on.
That does not account for the thumping irregularities in the mail-in vote itself, the skeezy ballot-harvesting activities and drop-box stuffing of Democratic Party ward-heelers; the instances, statistically absurd, when all the votes in a late hour were cast only for “Joe Biden” and none for Trump; the $400-million that Mark Zuckerberg gave in grants — through his Center for Technology and Civic Life — to 2,500 election districts, which allowed him to replace local election officials with outside ringers; the monkey-business in Fulton County, GA, where a supposedly “broken toilet” closed down the operation while CCTV cameras recorded suitcases full of ballots hauled out from underneath the tables and duly tabulated during the “shutdown;” the arrival of a truck from Long Island loaded with boxes of ballots at the loading dock of the main Philadelphia precinct center in the wee hours of the morning. . . and much more. Not to mention whatever the Dominion machines were doing in the background.
What is even the necessity of the Dominion voting machines? All they do is provide superfluous complexity to the process and invite fraud. How did it become outside acceptable discourse to even ask about that? Answer: because the Democratic Party benefits from opportunities for fraud, and many Republicans go along with it because, you know, Trump Trump Trump. In any case, despite all the cries of “baseless claims” and “election denial,” and other patently disingenuous mantras, our elections give off the odor of fraud and the means for cleaning them up are obvious and simple — which I’ll spare you from rehearsing again. What’s more, we are just now learning about the extensive involvement of Venezuela in producing the Dominion machines and using them globally to engineer election outcomes. That might be the main reason our navy is parked off that nation’s coast just now.
For months, Mr. Trump’s Department of Justice attempted to intervene in the Tina Peters case and, at least, get her moved into a safer federal prison. Colorado officials fought all that. So, last week, Mr. Trump issued a pardon for Tina Peters. There is mixed opinion as to whether a president can pardon anyone convicted in a state jurisdiction. Colorado told Mr. Trump that his pardon will not apply — that they will keep Tina Peters in the state slammer. There are additional considerations as to whether anyone in “Joe Biden’s” DOJ might have unduly participated in or influenced the process that led to Tina Peters’ conviction. . . and, if so, whether that would make a presidential pardon apply.
Now, Mr. Trump says he will release new, additional information that the 2020 election was “rigged.” You might suppose that he is in a position to know. DNI Tulsi Gabbard likewise says she has proof that the Dominion voting machines were tampered with around the nation in 2020. Wouldn’t it be nice if, by Christmas Eve, the president sent a contingent of US marshals to Colorado demanding the release of Tina Peters into federal custody. . . and arrested any Colorado official, including Governor Jared Polis, who interferes with the process? Wouldn’t you like to see that?
I would like to think it could happen.
James Howard Kunstler ping
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And they threw her in jail for that. Every single person who touched this prosecution and sentencing should be prosecuted.
Sending a Christmas card...
What about some money for Tina's jail account to buy stuff at the prison store.
Anyone attempted to visit Tina....?
Maybe Tina can get married to an admirer...DJT can be the best man.....:-)
It’s a shame no senator had a margarita with this Colorado grandmother with the press in tow.
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Damn right I’d like to see that.
The treatment of Tina Peters is a travesty. That corrupt judge should take her place.
BUMP!
In the strongly (R) Antrim County MI, election fraud was more to cancel legitimate votes for Trump, while in the mostly (D) Detroit it was more to count illegitimate votes for Biden.
Both were adulterated more by election fraud than they were voter fraud and the election fraud came through their top-down hierarchies.
The whole camping trip was out of order, and in MI, all eyes should be on SoS Jocelyn Benson, Gov. Whitmer and AG Dana Nessel, unless they all plan on getting out of the election fraud business before the mid-term primaries.
You can be a holocaust denier, a God denier, a mudlim terorist denier, but God forbid you deny the clotshot, queer marketing, or electrion interference.
Can deny: any lie democrat party spreads
Cannot deny: anything you reason yourself with even half your brain tied behind your back.
This is a microcosm of their values. Or lack of them. Look at J6ers, and the abuse of power. Look at their support of real insurrectionists like BLM and Antifa. Look at their support of transgendered or transgender-promoting terrorists and assassins.
Democrats are the party of slavery, theft, sexual perversion, child abuse, murder, and tyranny.
No Democrat should have the right to vote. And the Democrat party should be abolished and made illegal.
Democrat leaders should collectively be treated as war criminals who have committed crimes against humanity and, after proper military tribunals, publicly executed.
I don’t think a President’s pardon power extends to state laws. As much as I support Donald Trump, I don’t think he has that constitutional authority.
The 'RATs play this game like pros. The Repubs are not even in the minor leagues. This is a communist organized crime ring and should be treated as such. Look at what the 'RATs did to Trump and use that as a measure of fairness against real criminals.
I would LOVE to see that.
Drama! Drama! Drama! (smirk) ... But this time? You bet your sweet petunia it would be over-the-moon-and-back nice! (Hoping something gives for her to be freed.)
Drama! Drama! Drama! (smirk) ... But this time? You bet your sweet petunia it would be over-the-moon-and-back nice! (Hoping something gives for her to be freed.)
“The federal government can go after the Colorado Government employees with RICO charges involving election fraud and Violation of Civil Rights Under Color of Law. They can arrest them in SWAT raids and handcuff them naked in the road in front of their homes during morning rush hour in the middle of winter.
The ‘RATs play this game like pros. The Repubs are not even in the minor leagues. This is a communist organized crime ring and should be treated as such. Look at what the ‘RATs did to Trump and use that as a measure of fairness against real criminals.”
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Just as soon as you have discovered a predicate act supporting such charges, I’m sure you’ll inform the rest of us....
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