President Donald Trump used his downtime Wednesday to attack the Colorado officials who refuse to honor his pretend pardon of Tina Peters, going so far as to label Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) a “Scumbag” and calling for him and a Republican district attorney to “rot in hell.”
Peters, a former Colorado county clerk, was convicted of state crimes in 2024 for orchestrating a criminal scheme with election deniers to breach voting machine data, driven by baseless conspiracies of fraud in the 2020 election that were, in turn, planted by Trump.
“God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State,” Trump wrote on social media.
“Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor, and the disgusting ‘Republican’ (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail In Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!), I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETERS!”
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