Trump's 'lawless' retaliation won clemency for election denier: Official

Top Colorado Democrats and democracy advocates were among those outraged and puzzled Friday after Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk and 2020 election denier who aided Trump in his scheme to derail the 2020 election. Those critics now include Colorado’s own state secretary Jenna Griswold, who spoke to MS NOW’s “Weekend” panel in terms of treachery.

“Tina Peters was no political prisoner,” said Griswold. “She compromised her voting equipment, trying to prove Trump's big lie. Her actions, and then her lies and conspiracies about her actions were used to further destabilize our elections and increase the threat level to election officials. So, the fact that she is going to be released early, in what I view is special treatment is just ridiculous.”

Griswold, who worked with state legislators to pass a new election insider threat law making it a felony to compromise voting equipment, added that the clemency sends a message to Trump's followers that if they break the law, they may get off on federal and state charges: “It will embolden the election denialism movement in this country at a time that is quite dangerous with our upcoming elections.”

MS NOW anchors replayed headlines revealing Trump’s open war against the state of Colorado since returning to the White House last year. These include headlines declaring the administration’s move to “dissolve national climate research lab in Colorado: last December, his veto of a bipartisan bill to fund clean water pipeline in southeastern Colorado, and Trump’s freeze on aid for low-income Colorado families in January. Trump also rejected — for a second time — the state’s plea for disaster aid in April.

“I believe that the retribution has something to do with it,” Griswold said. “Trump has been obsessed with Tina Peters. She is one of or was one of the last people in the entire nation facing accountability for attacking American elections … so he really wanted her out. He tried to unlawfully pardon her himself. That didn't work. Tried to get her moved into federal custody in the federal prison system. That didn't work, tried over and over to pressure the governor to pardon.”

“Look, I know it's really tough to have federal aid cut,” added Griswold. “… But if we placate this lawless president who tries to bully his way into getting people to follow his lawless orders, democracy can fall.”

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