US EditionTrump Says He Granted Pardon to Tina Peters, Sparking Serious Legal Questions
Trump granted a symbolic federal pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted on state election-related charges and sentenced to nine years, but the pardon does not affect her state prison term.
- On Dec. 11, 2025, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had pardoned Tina Peters, though no formal clemency document appeared on the federal site as of 6 p.m.
- The former Mesa County clerk, Tina Peters, 70, was convicted by a jury of election system breaches and sentenced to nine years in October 2024 at La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo.
- Constitutional law experts Jessica Smith and Doug Spencer said a president can pardon only federal offenses, while Colorado Gov. Jared Polis alone can pardon or commute Tina Peters' state sentence.
- As of 6 p.m., no formal clemency document had appeared on the federal clemency website; the move could prompt filings by Peters' legal team while a federal judge denied release and state corrections rejected transfer.
- Peters' case fits a pattern in which Trump has sought clemency for allies, as he has pardoned over 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, with experts warning this could upend federalism.
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Trump’s attempt to pardon Tina Peters runs into constitutional limits
Earlier this year, President Trump pardoned around 1,500 people for their involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. As we near the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack, there is one high-profile election denier still behind bars. As White House correspondent Liz Landers reports, there is little Trump can do to get former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters out of prison.
"May They Rot In Hell": Trump Exposes RINO DA Who Launched Legal Lawfare Attack Against Trump Supporter - The American Tribune.com
Posting on Truth Social and sounding off on the situation in Colorado in a fiery post on Truth Social that came on Wednesday, December 31, the last day of 2025, President Donald Trump went scorched earth on Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein. In the post, Trump called Rubinstein a “RINO” and declared that both he and the woke governor of Colorado should “rot in hell” for their incarceration of former e…
Tina Peters Asks State Court To Honor Trump's Illegal Pardon
Source: Marc Piscotty / Getty We really are living in the dumbest of times, here in the U.S.A. Conservative America has lost its MAGA-fied mind because our president is stupid and he’s forcing his entire party to adjust to his stupidity. For example, President Donald Trump has claimed to have issued a “full pardon” to Tina Peters, a former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk who was sentenced to nine years on state charges related to election interfere…
Tina Peters Presses Court to Honor Trump Pardon
Former Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters urged a Colorado court to honor her pardon by President Donald Trump. “There is no question that the Pardon forgave federal offenses,” the motion says, as reported by Colorado Public Radio. “However, the Pardon also forgave Colorado state court convictions for actions Clerk Peters ‘may have committed or taken part in related to election integrity and security’ during the applicable time period.” Presid…
Commentary: She went to jail for Trump's Big Lie. He's trying to get her sprung
The president issued a symbolic and meaningless 'pardon' for Tina Peters, who was convicted on seven criminal counts tied to Trump's Big Lie about a stolen 2020 election. She remains unrepentant.
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