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...
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If you’re not allowed a defense, of course you’re going to prison.
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I think the crime was allowing others to copy data. It had nothing to do with chasing a phantom. It has to do with not securing your team, and teaching them what to do, and what NOT to do. Those who leaked info, were witnesses against her as they were given plea deals.
Nine years?! Good Lord! Murderers get less.\.
Political prisoner who Trump should pardon in January as with all political prisoners.
The scales aren't balanced until that Judge and Prosecutor are sent to prison.
We need to go Joseph Stalin on these bastards.
Her persecutors and the Los Angeles Times should share Beria’s fate.
So much for "transparency."
The log files ought to be publicly available information, unless they have something to hide.
I wonder what they are hiding?
State crime. He can't do anything about it other than pick someone to head the Justice department that might initiate an investigation to see if that Judge and Prosecutor have broken any federal laws, then make sure the full force of "the Law" comes down on them.
I'm betting they can find some federal laws they broke.
Those two Negro women won a judgment of $148M against Rudy Giuliani for calling them out on their activity.
We sure gots justice in this America!
MAGA
>> She’s going to prison because the judge is a dem political hack.
She’ll win on appeal because the judge is a Rat political hack.
The judge will pay a steep price for his injustice.
(Tina’s heinous crime? Backing up a voting machine’s log file before Democrat election officials could illegally delete it.)
America is nearly lost.......
Tina Peters is a Gold Star Mom and an Election Integrity Patriot..~Kari Lake .. the only people who go to jail for election fraud are the ones who expose the election fraud.
The prosecution would not let in any affirmative defenses... The jury was not given exculpatory and vital evidence.
That’s because demonrats are hypocrites of the worst order.
The judge looks and sounds like a kiddie-diddling faggot, #InMyOpinion.
What Tina Peters did has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with following both Federal and CO state law requiring, let me repeat that word, requiring her to secure the ballot information.
It’s not her fault that Dominion deleted 29,000 files after she made the backup and it’s not her fault that Jena Griswold is a criminal who is working with Dominion.
she is in jail for doing the job duties she could be put in jail for NOT doing.
it is a fed requirement to preserve the cast vote record for 22 months.
the domestic enemies went around the country.erasing these records.
this, plus the fema domestic enemies in the hurricane area , that are pirating/stealing private releif supplies
are an act of civil war imho.
these fed domestic enemies are waging defacto civil war on the citizens.
tina in jail is a gut punch
im glad every one involved in these injustices will burn for ever in hell.
forever.
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