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struggle4progress

(124,086 posts) Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:51 PM Saturday

rump threatens 'harsh measures' if convicted election denier Tina Peters not freed

Published Aug 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM EDT
Updated Aug 22, 2025 at 4:58 AM EDT

President Trump on Thursday re-upped his call for Colorado to free Tina Peters, a state election official who was convicted of multiple felonies after breaching voting equipment in the 2020 election, warning he would take “harsh measures” if she is not released ...

“Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW.”

He continued, “She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election. She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!”

Trump did not specify what those measures would be but has in the past threatened to withhold funding from other states and jurisdictions if they do not align with his policies ...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5463191-donald-trump-tina-peters-freedom/

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rump threatens 'harsh measures' if convicted election denier Tina Peters not freed (Original Post) struggle4progress Saturday OP

Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-207 struggle4progress Saturday #1

18 USC 872 struggle4progress Saturday #2

Report this to the DOJ and it will spring into action. Sneederbunk Saturday #4

Is he going to send in ICE to arrest and deport pesky Coloradans? Maybe level the rockies to kill Colorado skiing? Ping Tung Saturday #3

Colorado should tell trump that Peters was mistakenly sent Ilsa Saturday #5

FO Traitor. Will the Gov of Colorado comply? Cha Saturday #6

MaddowBlog-Trump threatens Colorado with 'harsh measures' unless it frees a convicted felon LetMyPeopleVote Saturday #7

'Harsh measures': Oeditpus Rex Saturday #8

struggle4progress

(124,086 posts)

1. Colorado Revised Statutes 18-3-207

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:54 PM

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(1) A person commits criminal extortion if:

(a) The person, without legal authority and with the intent to induce another person against that other person's will to perform an act or to refrain from performing a lawful act, makes a substantial threat to confine or restrain, cause economic hardship or bodily injury to, or damage the property or reputation of, the threatened person or another person; and

(b) The person threatens to cause the results described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) by:

(I) Performing or causing an unlawful act to be performed; or

(II) Invoking action by a third party, including, but not limited to, the state or any of its political subdivisions, whose interests are not substantially related to the interests pursued by the person making the threat ...

(1) A person commits criminal extortion if:

(a) The person, without legal authority and with the intent to induce another person against that other person's will to perform an act or to refrain from performing a lawful act, makes a substantial threat to confine or restrain, cause economic hardship or bodily injury to, or damage the property or reputation of, the threatened person or another person; and

(b) The person threatens to cause the results described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) by:

(I) Performing or causing an unlawful act to be performed; or

(II) Invoking action by a third party, including, but not limited to, the state or any of its political subdivisions, whose interests are not substantially related to the interests pursued by the person making the threat ,,,

https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-18-criminal-code/co-rev-st-sect-18-3-207/

struggle4progress

(124,086 posts)

2. 18 USC 872

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:56 PM

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Whoever, being an officer, or employee of the United States or any department or agency thereof, or representing himself to be or assuming to act as such, under color or pretense of office or employment commits or attempts an act of extortion, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both ...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/872

Sneederbunk

(16,513 posts)

4. Report this to the DOJ and it will spring into action.

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #2)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:29 PM

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Ping Tung

(3,418 posts)

3. Is he going to send in ICE to arrest and deport pesky Coloradans? Maybe level the rockies to kill Colorado skiing?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 01:57 PM

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Ilsa

(63,143 posts)

5. Colorado should tell trump that Peters was mistakenly sent

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 02:43 PM

Saturday

to South Sudan by ICE. Just f#*k with him as much as possible.

Cha

(313,790 posts)

6. FO Traitor. Will the Gov of Colorado comply?

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 03:02 PM

Saturday

Is it up to Polis?

TY.. I wondered about this and was told at the time that it was a State Issue.

I know Deranged Despot doesn't give a shit.

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,402 posts)

7. MaddowBlog-Trump threatens Colorado with 'harsh measures' unless it frees a convicted felon

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 04:48 PM

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The president threatened to punish the state unless it agrees to free Tina Peters. Even by 2025 standards, this really isn't normal.

I know it's easy to roll oneâ€™s eyes at the daily nonsense, but consider Trumpâ€™s line on Tina Peters in context:

A sitting American president is threatening to impose "harsh measures" on an American state unless it frees a convicted felon that he likes. That's insane. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-21T16:06:45.056Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-free-tina-peters-colorado-harsh-measures-rcna226315

The effort didn’t amount to much, but the president’s interest in the case didn’t fade. And in May, the Republican not only called for Peters’ release from prison, he also directed the Justice Department to take “all necessary action” to help secure her freedom. As part of the same online harangue, Trump, who lacks the authority to pardon those convicted of state crimes, went on to describe Peters as a “Political Prisoner” and a “hostage” whose trial deserved to be seen as “a Communist persecution.”

This, too, went largely ignored, prompting the president to kick things up a notch. NBC News reported:

Trump threatened to take unspecified ‘harsh measures’ if Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, is not released from prison. The president referred to Peters as ‘a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians,’ calling to ‘FREE TINA PETERS.’

......Despite Trump’s apparent interest in her case, there’s effectively nothing he can do: This was a state official, charged with state crimes, by state prosecutors, in a state court, with a state jury, overseen by a state judge, which necessarily means neither the president nor his Justice Department can overturn Peters’ criminal conviction.

But Trump apparently finds that unsatisfying. He wants to free his conspiratorial ally anyway, and so he’s now threatening a state in his own country with unspecified “harsh measures.”

I won’t pretend to know what, if anything, will come of this, but for all of the hysterical and baseless Republican conspiracy theories during Joe Biden’s presidency about “weaponized” prosecutions and a “two-tiered” justice system, Trump and his team are creating the very conditions the GOP condemned. The incumbent president — through his scandalous pardons, his intervention in cases such as Peters’ and his willingness to sic prosecutors on his perceived political enemies — is going out of his way to make clear that his allies will be held to different legal standards than everyone else.

The brazenness is so plainly ridiculous, the Trump administration is hardly even trying to keep up appearances — and there’s every reason to believe this will get worse in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

Oeditpus Rex

(42,402 posts)

8. 'Harsh measures':

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:45 PM

Saturday

He'll kavw a red cap made that says, "RELEASE TINA PETERS NOW!"

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