In an increasingly leftist Colorado, President Donald Trump is working to balance the scales of Lady Justice.
In a state where a man convicted of actual election fraud was sentenced to only 20 days in jail, a former county clerk has been imprisoned for nine years for her activities aimed at questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election.
In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump weighed in on no uncertain terms:
Tina Peters is the former county clerk of Mesa County, in the western part of the state on the Utah border.
In October, she was sentenced to prison for allowing a conservative operative to access Mesa County’s election system, according to the Associated Press. The incident occurred in May 2021, according to Colorado Public Radio.
From published reports, and a jury’s verdict, there appears to be little doubt that what Peters did constituted a crime, notwithstanding the fact that she apparently did it out of concerns about the integrity of the results in her county’s voting machines.But a nine-year prison term for a 69-year-old woman is flirting with an effective sentence to death behind bars. (Life expectancy for women in the United States is about 80, according to the CDC
Considering that a man in Routt County, Colorado, on the border with Wyoming, was sentenced in June 2024 to only a score of days in jail for actually committing voter fraud, according to The Denver Post, and it looks like something is seriously out of whack in the Centennial State.
A lengthy prison sentence to a woman in the later years of her life for a crime like Peters was convicted of sounds like a gross miscarriage of justice. What sounded even grosser, though, was the response to Trump’s post from Colorado’s notorious Secretary of State Jena Griswold.
“Tina Peters is a criminal who compromised her own voting equipment to try to prove Trump’s Big Lie,” Griswold said in a statement, according to Newsweek. “Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice. We cannot allow him to rewrite history or use his lies to create two tiers of justice for the American people.”
Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice? Trump wants to create “two tiers of justice for the American people”?
No American conservative who lived through the Biden years could fail to see the hypocrisy of that statement.
Since even before the 2020 election, Democrats from the local to the state to the federal level have shown they are interested in nothing but two tiers of justice for the American people, depending on their political views.
And Democrat-run Colorado is a case in point.
Tina Peters was sentenced to 9 years for sharing a password with ONE person. She was sentenced to jail for “election interference” for just doing her job around corruption.
In the meantime, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold publicly shared 600 passwords on her website for machines in 63 of the state’s 64 counties.
Not a damn thing happened to her. If Griswold were Republican, she would have been frog marched off to jail already.
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