President Donald Trump on Thursday said he granted „a full Pardon“ to election denier Tina Peters who was convicted for helping outsiders illegally breach voting machine security.
Dec. 11 President Donald Trump on Thursday said he granted „a full Pardon“ to election denier Tina Peters who was convicted for helping outsiders illegally breach voting machine security, though Colorado officials say he has no power to do so for state crimes.
Peters, a 70-year-old former Mesa County, Colo., clerk, is serving a nine-year prison sentence. She was convicted in August 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation for aiding an unauthorized person in copying voting-machine hard-drive data during a 2021 software update.
That data, including sensitive election-system information, was later leaked online by election-fraud conspiracy theorists who claimed it proved Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election had been stolen from him.
While maintaining the unfounded claim that the 2020 election was stolen, Trump has been a vocal supporter of the effort to secure Peters‘ release, describing Peters as a pro-democracy activist.
