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Former county clerk was convicted in Colorado of state crimes last year in election interference case
Trump claimed to grant former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters a “full pardon” Thursday night — a power that constitutional law experts say he cannot wield for a person convicted of state-level crimes.
Peters, 70, is serving a nine-year sentence in state prison in Pueblo for felonies related to providing unauthorized access to voting equipment when she was the elected clerk and recorder of Mesa County. She had worked with prominent election deniers in an attempt to prove discredited claims that voting machines were manipulated, and she’s been a prominent supporter of Trump’s debunked claims of fraud in the 2020 election.
On Thursday evening, Trump posted to his Truth Social account that “Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest.”
President Donald Trump claims to pardon Tina Peters — a power he does not have, experts say
Doug Spencer, a constitutional law professor at the University of Colorado, called it “sad that our president hasn’t read or doesn’t understand a basic tenet of the U.S. Constitut…
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