Trump administration seeks custody of imprisoned Colorado elections clerk
Source: AP
Updated 8:58 PM EST, November 14, 2025
DENVER (AP) The Trump administration is seeking a transfer from state prison to federal custody of a former Colorado county clerk who has become a hero to election conspiracy theorists, the state and one of her lawyers said Friday.
The Colorado Department of Corrections said Friday that it received a letter from the federal Bureau of Prisons regarding Tina Peters on Wednesday. Neither the department nor the Bureau of Prisons immediately responded to a request to provide a copy of the letter but a corrections department spokesperson, Alondra Gonzalez, confirmed the letter was a request to move Peters to federal custody.
A member of Peters legal team, Peter Ticktin, said he had seen the letter and also described it as a request to move her to a federal prison to serve out her sentence there. It is not to have her released, he said. While Ticktin said the letter didnt say why the agency wanted to move Peters, he believes it is so she could more easily be involved in investigations into voting machines in the 2020 presidential election and because of health problems she has been having in state prison.
Peters, 70, was convicted of orchestrating a scheme to breach voting machine data driven by false claims of fraud in the 2020 election. Her release from prison has become a cause celebre in the election conspiracy movement.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/colorado-trump-election-conspiracy-2020-prison-010cf75d32459f3a40a5fc4418dfc1fd
REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143563209
This is a STATE CASE. I repeat - THIS IS A STATE CASE.
groundloop
(13,433 posts)tRump will release her and put her in charge of federal elections.
IbogaProject
(5,419 posts)popsdenver
(1,007 posts)camp cupcake her like Ghislaine..........
riversedge
(78,830 posts)Crooks everywhere in Trump's Departments and Cabinet!
..............Peters, the former Republican clerk of Mesa, Colorado, was found guilty last year on state charges of participating in a scheme that hoped to prove Trumps false claims of mass voter fraud in 2020. She was sentenced to nine years in prison and is serving her sentence at a womens prison in Pueblo, Colorado. However, because she was found guilty on state charges, Trump cannot outright pardon her that power belongs to Colorados Democratic governor. But that hasnt stopped her allies from trying to get her out of prison.
One of the people making the biggest push internally on her behalf is Ed Martin, who is serving as the pardon attorney at the Justice Department after he failed to get enough support to serve as the US attorney in Washington.
Martin has continued to advocate for relief for Peters in recent weeks, several people familiar with the push told CNN, even though it is extremely unusual for the Justice Department to intervene in a state case this way. The department has already involved itself in a long-shot federal case, known as a habeas petition, that Peters filed in March, and urged a federal judge to free her from state prison while she appeals her conviction. That matter is still pending, but a decision is expected this year.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/tina-peters-pardon-push-trump
AverageOldGuy
(3,159 posts). . . of a 70-yr-old convict in state prison?
riversedge
(78,830 posts)TommyT139
(2,091 posts)The only downside is that a growing number of prisoners have chronic health and cognitive issues, which the prisons have to pay for. Because Constitution...not that trumpists care about that.
GB_RN
(3,465 posts)Hopefully, very, very short?
😂
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)in fact, it would be right for you to say that.
riversedge
(78,830 posts)Nov 14, 2025
President Donald Trump has threatened retaliation if Colorado doesnt release his political ally from prison.
Transcript
Democratic Governor Jared Polis has been adamant that the
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state will not cave to pressure to release Peters.
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He told us,
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quote,
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justice is not for sale.
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hlthe2b
(112,132 posts)But those made-up charges are extremely unlikely to result in anything but early dismissal. If they do manage a conviction which would allow them to eventually free her from Federal custody (pardon, commutation, or whatever)... she'd still have to go back to state prison to complete THAT sentence. So, I do not get what their big plan is. Maybe they are that damned ignorant to think the first part would end the entire matter.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)you have zero business interfering, if you want to transfer her, then by all means, but not until she serves out her state sentence.
LetMyPeopleVote
(172,635 posts)Tina Peters was sent to prison after acting on Trumps 2020 election lies. The president, indifferent to her guilt, now wants her freed.
MSNBC: A two-tiered system: Trump calls for Tina Peters to be freed from prison www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— (@jwwcan.bsky.social) 2025-05-06T18:59:49.136Z
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/two-tiered-system-trump-calls-tina-peters-freed-prison-rcna205070
The effort didnt amount to much, but as NBC News reported, the presidents interest in the case has apparently intensified.
In a Truth Social post tonight, Trump called for former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters to be released from prison and said he was directing the Justice Department to take all necessary action to help secure her release.
In a bizarre online harangue, Trump rewrote recent history, claiming that Peters simply worked to expose and document Democrat [sic] Election Fraud. He added, Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment. This is a Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020.
In case that werent quite enough, the president concluded, I am hereby directing the Department of Justice to take all necessary action to help secure the release of this hostage being held in a Colorado prison by the Democrats, for political reasons. FREE TINA PETERS, NOW!......
Time will tell what, if anything, the Justice Department can do about Peters incarceration.
For all of the hysterical and baseless Republican conspiracy theories during Joe Bidens 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 Republican administration is hardly even trying to keep up appearances and theres every reason to believe this will get worse in the coming days, weeks, months and years.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)I've been following this pretty closely and I do believe that Been A Dick and his DoJ are going to get their collective asses kicked on this.
The idea that they have ANY jurisdiction in this is just laughable, but that's this whole regime, laughable.
Gov. Polis will, once again, tell the Feds to fuck right off and there's really nothing they can legally do about it.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)to try to bust her out of prison, that's the kind of mentality he has.
lastlib
(27,133 posts)and solve ALL our problems!
Historic NY
(39,477 posts)with the Judge..
bluestarone
(20,780 posts)Jesus Christ, how this smells of we want to take care of our own special privileged ASSHOLES!!
Hotler
(13,616 posts)Peters hasn't felt enough consequences yet.
generalbetrayus
(1,384 posts)to GO THE HELL, LARD BOY!
Americanme
(315 posts)He is losing his base because of Epstein, he needs to get them back, so he will release their hero, regardless of the law.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)CO. will tell him to fuck right off and there's nothing he can do about it.
Jimvanhise
(542 posts)Fox News and others were desperate to prove voting machine tampering but they failed and instead had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars. This is just Trump rewriting history again before he drops dead. Trump is elderly and in poor health but his ego keeps pushing him to humiliate himself.
chia
(2,722 posts)Nigrum Cattus
(1,099 posts)they are completely 100% American taliban now
project 2025, white "christian" nationalists have no morals
or respect of American values & history
Phoenix61
(18,631 posts)Ghislaine Maxwell is at. Probably with the same concierge services.
dalton99a
(91,169 posts)Fil1957
(392 posts)she should be granted compassionate release.
If on the other hand, that's not true, and she is reasonably healthy she needs to serve out her sentence.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)she tried to overturn a legitimate election, she lied, she let an authorized person tamper with the voting machines and at her sentencing, she was combative and showed no remorse.
I couldn't care less if her cancer has returned, fuck her, she can rot and die in prison where she belongs.
markodochartaigh
(4,636 posts)Every prisoner is entitled, in my opinion, to the best care that we can provide whether they are actually innocent and had to plea bargain or whether they are guilty of heinous crimes like trying to subvert the US election system.
And her family should be allowed to visit her in the prison infirmary every day if they wish, right up to the end.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(172,635 posts)bluestarone
(20,780 posts)NO WAY IN HELL!! The only transfer, (IF she gets it) is straight to HELL!!
SunSeeker
(57,262 posts)wcmagumba
(5,154 posts)FakeNoose
(39,493 posts)After all, voting machine tampering has become something of a lost art. Chump really wants to know how she did it.
Ocelot II
(128,299 posts)Maybe they could be roommates, take spa treatments together and take turns doing each other's nails? Maxwell is a lot classier; maybe she could share some of the makeup and couture tips Peters desperately needs for when she gets out and goes on the MAGA lecture tour.
markodochartaigh
(4,636 posts)the case in Coffee County Georgia received almost no attention in the national media. It is a disgrace.
LetMyPeopleVote
(172,635 posts)Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the report noted, has previously said he will not capitulate on the issue, and justice is not for sale.
Colorado will tell Trump to fuck off
— CommonSense (@comminsense.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T04:18:29.786Z
www.rawstory.com/tina-peters-...
https://www.rawstory.com/tina-peters-2674297768/
According to 9 News, "The Colorado Department of Corrections confirms it received notice from the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Nov. 12, a concrete move toward a speculative strategy" to spring Tina Peters. "President Trump cannot pardon the former Mesa County clerk, who is serving a nine-year prison term on state charges for a scheme to sneak fellow election deniers into Colorados voting systems in a search for election rigging."
Per Trump's pardon attorney Ed Martin, We did it in a way that puts the right kind of pressure on them. If the feds say we want something, you change your tune.....
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis, the report noted, has previously said he will not capitulate on the issue, and justice is not for sale.
MarineCombatEngineer
(16,858 posts)Not very well huh.
Gov. Polis is going to clean your fucking MAGAt clock.