Freed Tina Peters Seeks Trump Job After 9-Year Sentence Is Cut

5 articles · Updated · The New Republic · Jun 1

Steve Bannon’s podcast was Tina Peters’ first stop after release Monday, where she repeated false 2020 election-rigging claims and said she wanted President Donald Trump to give her a prison-reform role.
Jared Polis freed the former Mesa County clerk after granting clemency weeks earlier and reducing a 9-year sentence for tampering with voting machines and helping copy confidential election-system data.
Polis said the sentence was too long, but the move triggered a backlash from Colorado Democrats, who censured him; Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Peters’ release undermines accountability and could embolden election denialism.
Trump had pressed Polis for months to release Peters, and Vice President JD Vance recently suggested she could receive money from an “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” underscoring her status as a MAGA cause célèbre.

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