{"id":343802,"date":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343802\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:57:10","slug":"trump-announces-pardon-for-tina-peters-increasing-pressure-to-free-her-though-he-cant-erase-state-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343802\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump announces pardon for Tina Peters, increasing pressure to free her though he can\u2019t erase state charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is granting Tina Peters<\/a> a full federal pardon, which is likely to increase the pressure campaign<\/a> to free the former Colorado clerk from state prison even though he cannot erase her state charges.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cTina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the \u2018crime\u2019 of demanding Honest Elections. Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election,\u201d the president wrote <\/a>on Truth Social.\n <\/p>\n

\n Peters, the former Republican clerk of Mesa, Colorado, was found guilty last year on state charges of participating in a scheme to breach voting systems that hoped to prove Trump\u2019s false claims of mass voter fraud in 2020. She was sentenced to nine years in prison and is serving her sentence at a women\u2019s prison in Pueblo, Colorado.\n <\/p>\n

\n Peters is currently the only Trump ally in prison for crimes related to the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. She still believes that election was stolen, her lawyers recently told CNN. Her lawyers have also raised concerns about her physical safety and told a judge that her health is declining behind bars.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s pardon has no legal impact on her state conviction and incarceration. But the administration has been pressuring Colorado officials to set her free or at least transfer her into federal custody, where she could be moved into a more comfortable facility. The Justice Department even stepped in to support Peters\u2019 unsuccessful attempt to convince a federal judge to release her from prison.\n <\/p>\n

\n After months of hearings and legal filings, a federal judge in Denver rejected her federal lawsuit seeking release on Monday, concluding that state courts are the proper venue for her to challenger her conviction.\n <\/p>\n

\n Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in a statement defended Peters\u2019 conviction. \u201cNo President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Polis has previously said he won\u2019t pardon Peters as part of any quid-pro-quo deal.\n <\/p>\n

\n Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, a Democrat who is fighting to uphold Peters\u2019 conviction and keep her behind bars, also dismissed the pardon in a statement.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe idea that a president could pardon someone tried and convicted in state court has no precedent in American law, would be an outrageous departure from what our constitution requires, and will not hold up,\u201d Weiser said.\n <\/p>\n

\n One of her lawyers sent a letter to Trump earlier this month, making the case for a pardon. Those efforts were successful at securing a symbolic clemency action from Trump, however, only Polis has the power to pardon Peters for her state crimes and set her free.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN\u2019s Kaitlan Collins contributed to this report.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is granting Tina Peters a full federal pardon, which is likely to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-343802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}