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 ...
Exactly. *yawn*. Nothing will happen, ever.
The article is literally dripping with seething hate and bias....even the plainly biased words of the “judge” who sat in dominion over his captive martyr.
Why? They’re still trying to forestall any dissent should the Democrats’ extant plans for vote cheating prove fruitful. What they’re really afraid of now is that Harris/Walz is SO bad is that they won’t even be able to pull off the big cheat.
Let’s get out there and tidal wave them on November 5...
No, ‘yawn’, Trump-haters are boring
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