Posted on 10/08/2024 1:39:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Chances are you’ve never heard of Tina Peters. It’s worth taking a moment to get to know her.
Peters used to be the elections chief in Mesa County, Colo., a slice of rugged beauty perched on the state’s Western Slope.
After the 2020 election, Peters fell in with the tinfoil-hat crowd promoting the phony claim the presidential race was stolen from Donald Trump. In furtherance of that fallacy, Peters allowed an unauthorized person to access voting equipment as part of a crackpot scheme to gather “proof” that Mesa County’s voting machines were rigged.
They weren’t.
But Peters’ conniving made her a celebrity in the upside-down universe that is MAGA world. She jetted around the country as a wingman for Mike Lindell, the My Pillow guy and feather-headed spouter of election-denying nonsense. Trump hailed Peters as “a rock star” for helping further spread his corrosive claptrap.
Finally, in August, Peters’ duplicity caught up with her. She was convicted of seven criminal counts related to the breach of election security and her deceptive actions surrounding the incident. Last week a judge threw not just the book but multiple volumes at the unrepentant former county clerk, rejecting pleas for leniency and sentencing Peters to a whopping nine years in prison.
“You’re as defiant ... a defendant at this court has ever seen,” Judge Matthew Barrett said in a tone of righteous anger. Unlike those unfortunate souls that sometimes land in his courtroom, “You are as privileged as they come,” he told the 69-year-old Peters, “and you used that privilege to obtain power, a following and fame.”
“You are no hero,” he went on. “You abused your position and you’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to...
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
She’s going to prison for Trump’s Big Lie. Others should pay heed
TRANSLATION: "If you dare try to expose our crimes we will do the same thing to you."
#ing Rats
Yep.
Your translation gets an 11 on the Truth-O-Meter, just like Schmuck Schumer’s unintentional truthfulness about the intelligence agencies having multiple ways to inflict payback for exposing them.
She’s going to prison because the judge is a dem political hack.
If Trump cared about the 2020 election he would get elected then immediately prosecute the State for this and get her out of prison.
I was agnostic about the theft of the election what made me believe Trump was right were the left wing reactionaries who want to jail anyone that challenges the election results.
Hopefully her case will be appealed
America’s DOJ is a criminal enterprise.
“Democracy” is blindly believing Democrat Party lies and fanatic obedience to their dictates.
:-(
No biased or loaded language there... *eye roll*
“If Trump cared…”
Do you doubt it?
Judge Soros says “pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”
LA SLIMES! This writer is pretty much a despicable liar posing as a journalist.
Each and every single sentence a lie. Goebbels would be proud.
Celebrating the latter-day Roland Freisler judge. Goebbels would gleam with joy.
Obviously.
First of all the lie is on their side.
Secondly, the LA Times' headline literally says, warns or threatens that you can go to jail for exercising your First Amendment rights.
Think of that.
Elon Musk has. He said at Butler, "The other side wants to take away your freedom of speech."
And placing large sheets of paper over the windows to prevent visual poll watching is OK???
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