Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters is serving nine years in prison for assisting an election denial scheme in 2020. (Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
"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. The same Democrat Party that flies to El Salvador to try to free an MS-13 Terrorist, is cruelly imprisoning, perhaps for life, a grandmother whose brave and heroic son gave his life for America," he wrote on Truth Social in May.
"Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American," he added.
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Election judges checking ballots at the adjudication section at the Denver Elections Division in Denver, Colorado on Thursday. October 29, 2020. (Hyoung Chang/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, has vowed not to pardon Peters as any part of a deal with Trump, saying he would not participate in "any scheme to prevent her from being held accountable under Colorado law."
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