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BumRushDaShow

(158,795 posts)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:28 PM Thursday

Trump threatens Colorado with 'harsh measures' unless far-right election conspiracy theorist released from prison

Source: The Independent

Thursday 21 August 2025 18:59 BST


Donald Trump is demanding the release of a prominent far-right conspiracy theorist and former state elections official who is serving a nine-year jail sentence after she was found guilty of crimes connected to a nationwide scheme to overturn election results in states Trump lost in 2020.

He threatened “harsh measures” against the state of Colorado if officials refuse his command.

“FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW. She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election,” he added. “She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!”

Peters is among the only officials who have been convicted of crimes stemming from far-right plots to illegally reverse Trump’s loss to Joe Biden in 2020, using positions of power to amplify bogus claims of fraud and launch spurious investigations into voting machines and software.

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tina-peters-jail-colorado-b2811995.html



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Trump threatens Colorado with 'harsh measures' unless far-right election conspiracy theorist released from prison (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Thursday OP
Whiny Fragile Ass Snowflake demands her release! Emile Thursday #1
Another Pardon coming up...................... popsdenver Thursday #2
NO! Trump cannot pardon her--she was convicted on state charges. hlthe2b Thursday #4
The Republican CABAL popsdenver Thursday #9
Fuck that. NO!!! hlthe2b Thursday #12
SOME OF US HERE, are pretty old and worn out, Hithe popsdenver Friday #36
depends on if this person was brought up on federal charges. Javaman Friday #33
Probably a foreign asset or useful idiot... blue_jay Friday #44
Some people obey the laws--a novel concept for this POS and that includes not illegally releasing someone hlthe2b Thursday #3
Yep, it goes on. madamesilverspurs Thursday #5
Gov. Polis' prior statement when Trump first threatened "harsh measures" against CO: hlthe2b Thursday #6
This is what this country has normalized with all these fucking insitutions caving to his overreach, from universities Karasu Thursday #7
And he's probably going to get his way..." Like hell (NO!!!!!) hlthe2b Thursday #11
Thanks. That gives me some hope. I have a lot of respect for your state, so I'd love to see your government manage to Karasu Thursday #14
Spot on Hey Joe Thursday #16
So, extortion. maxsolomon Thursday #8
CO Secretary of State Jena Griswold "fires back" hlthe2b Thursday #10
since nobody else is doing what he does, looking forward to Newsom's response nt msongs Thursday #13
Petulance is apparently Hornedfrog2000 Thursday #17
Are you saying that Newsom is petulant? niyad Friday #31
Hey Dummy, have you nothing better to do? Atreus Thursday #15
It's illegal to do this...... Escape Thursday #18
You could turn that post into a song. I think I am hearing it now. twodogsbarking Thursday #20
Thanks.... Escape Thursday #24
Harsh measures sounds like daddy taking off his belt to, well, you know, or hopefully don't know. twodogsbarking Thursday #19
I think it's hilarious that MAGA reminds us everyday that "no one is above the law". Initech Thursday #26
Only if JustAnotherGen Thursday #21
The death of her son seems to be what shen her down the rabbit hole Warpy Thursday #22
"It's hard not to feel a little sorry for her..." MayReasonRule Friday #35
An absolutely brilliant commentary, MRR popsdenver Friday #38
Turds Don't Fall Far From The Ass Within Which They Were Formed... MayReasonRule Friday #40
Yes popsdenver Friday #41
Corrected entry of my commentary popsdenver Friday #43
34 square miles down wind that were polluted with 14lbs of powdered plutonium that escaped..... MayReasonRule Friday #45
I can't manage walls of text so I can't reply to your whole message Warpy Friday #42
No Insult Was Intended At All, In Any Way Or Form... Thank You For Responding In The First Place! MayReasonRule Friday #46
Not insulted, just too blind to read lots of text Warpy Friday #49
Right On... I And Mine Are The Only Members Of Our Families That Escaped MayReasonRule Friday #54
Say we Coloradans, "Go fuck thyself, Flump." RobertDevereaux Thursday #23
Fuck you Trump! Tina Peters is a POS who belongs in prison! Initech Thursday #25
Shouldn't you be doing a weapons check, Private Fucking Pedophile? Aviation Pro Thursday #27
That "old woman" is 9 years younger than you, Donald. LudwigPastorius Thursday #28
The cable news absolutely cannot overlook this. Baitball Blogger Thursday #29
so Trump is going to RESUME POSTING IN UPPERCAPS ON LIES CENTRAL ? Jack Valentino Friday #30
whatever happened to states rights Skittles Friday #32
Go fuck yourself. nt Hotler Friday #34
Send Troops into Denver next when he doesn't get his way? Bengus81 Friday #37
He already has started popsdenver Friday #39
This is what threating the well being of United States citizens in Colorado sounds like. n/t TheFourthMind Friday #47
Wasn't this the scheme where she gave access to was Mike Lindell and others? Bengus81 Friday #48
Here is a good summary BumRushDaShow Friday #50
Thanks...so all election denier Lindell did was give her money for legal fees. Bengus81 Friday #51
He did more than that! BumRushDaShow Friday #53
A lawsuit from cities being threaten ..... Lovie777 Friday #52

popsdenver

(295 posts)
2. Another Pardon coming up......................
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:40 PM
Thursday

In reality, she allowed several right wing operatives to sneak in at night, and copy the hard drives of several Colorado voting machines.....
Their aim was not to use the voting machines hard drives to detect cheating, but obviously to use the hard drives programming to find a way to reprogram the voting machines to cheat in future elections to open the door to vote flipping, or cancelling out Dem Voters......in any area in the U.S. that uses that voting machine........

Republican espionage elevated to a much higher level............

You can be sure they were probably doing the same thing in countless Red States that use voting machines, and were never caught.....

hlthe2b

(111,102 posts)
4. NO! Trump cannot pardon her--she was convicted on state charges.
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:41 PM
Thursday

And Gov. Polis has already clearly stated he would not be doing so.

popsdenver

(295 posts)
9. The Republican CABAL
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:54 PM
Thursday

has already begun hammering the living crap in BLUE STATE Colorado and Denver. If they don't get their way on this, they will just focus more on going after Colorado/Denver in the future......

They have already been working on pulling all Federal Funding from Colorado, and ABBOTT/TEXAS sent 30,000-40,000 immigrants on buses to Denver last fall.

popsdenver

(295 posts)
36. SOME OF US HERE, are pretty old and worn out, Hithe
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:27 AM
Friday

We have been literally leading the charge, every step of the way, for more than just a few decades...............

Javaman

(64,410 posts)
33. depends on if this person was brought up on federal charges.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 07:28 AM
Friday

if not, he's shit out of luck.

I think that's why he's ranting.

hlthe2b

(111,102 posts)
3. Some people obey the laws--a novel concept for this POS and that includes not illegally releasing someone
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:40 PM
Thursday

found guilty (repeatedly) for crimes that threatened the validity and fair conduct of an election. Not that anyone has the legal ability to do so (other than the CO Supreme Court allowing for a successful appeal) or Governor Polis pardoning/commuting her sentence (something he has repeatedly stated will not happen).

Guess what, you contemptible moron, some people actually DO believe in our laws and justice, however much you have tried to bastardize the entire system.

madamesilverspurs

(16,353 posts)
5. Yep, it goes on.
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:44 PM
Thursday

I got to attend a Democratic dinner last week, speaker was Joe Neguse (we need to clone him!). Also heard from our Secretary of State, Jena Griswold, who mentioned the Peters case as a favorite drum for MAGAts to beat. Griswold attended with her bodyguard, necessary because of the thousands of death threats she has received from trumpsters; her husband and infant son are similarly guarded since they have also been threatened. Peters is where she needs to be, where Trump and his enablers also need to be.


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hlthe2b

(111,102 posts)
6. Gov. Polis' prior statement when Trump first threatened "harsh measures" against CO:
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:51 PM
Thursday

“We’ve heard threats about withholding federal funding,” Rubinstein (prosecutor in the case) speculates. “I know the president has, for example, withheld grant funding to Harvard University…Governor Polis has made it quite clear that he will not be responding to coercion or bribery in any way — that he believes that to be some sort of form of extortion.”-- May, 2025

https://thehill.com/homenews/5323742-tina-peters-trump-pardons/

Karasu

(1,901 posts)
7. This is what this country has normalized with all these fucking insitutions caving to his overreach, from universities
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:53 PM
Thursday

to law firms. Now we're at the point where they're so comfortable with this shit that they're threatening state governments just for the sake of one fucking random right-wing wackjob...and he's probably going to get his way.

hlthe2b

(111,102 posts)
11. And he's probably going to get his way..." Like hell (NO!!!!!)
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 07:03 PM
Thursday

Colorado isn't Columbia University or Cornell or (pending) Harvard. This isn't going to play. Colorado, New Mexico, California, Washington, and Oregon will ultimately stand together for democracy. Coloradoans are supporting California's efforts on the redistricting (CO cannot do so for a multitude of reasons, including the presence of an independent state law-comprised committee) but I can assure you Dems in this state are supporting Newsom in those efforts. I fully expect CA and those other states will support Colorado in this fight as well.

See my posts with responses from our SOS Jena Griswold and earlier from Governor Polis. They will stand firm.

Karasu

(1,901 posts)
14. Thanks. That gives me some hope. I have a lot of respect for your state, so I'd love to see your government manage to
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 07:12 PM
Thursday

prevail.

That would be a huge victory.

Hey Joe

(190 posts)
16. Spot on
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:17 PM
Thursday

The criminal overreach of this administration is beyond anything I have seen in my lifetime.
If people don’t start hitting the streets en masse soon , we may lose this country.

hlthe2b

(111,102 posts)
10. CO Secretary of State Jena Griswold "fires back"
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 06:57 PM
Thursday

Jena Griswold fires back after Trump calls — again — for Tina Peters’ release and threatens ‘harsh measures’
Colorado secretary of state accuses president of ‘trying to rewrite the 2020 election’

https://www.denverpost.com/2025/08/21/donald-trump-tina-peters-colorado-prison/

President Donald Trump again called for the release of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from prison on Thursday, issuing a vague threat of “harsh measures” if state officials don’t let her out.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold quickly fired back, calling both Peters and the president “election-denying criminals who put their need for power ahead of the American people.”

“Trump is trying to power grab,” Griswold, a Democrat, said in an interview with The Denver Post. “He is trying to rewrite the 2020 election.”

Peters, a Republican, is serving nine years behind bars after a jury convicted her last summer of breaching her county’s election computer system in an attempt to buttress the president’s and his supporters’ false claims that the Democrats stole the 2020 election, which was won by Joe Biden, from Trump.


Atreus

(64 posts)
15. Hey Dummy, have you nothing better to do?
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 07:43 PM
Thursday

Imagine being the President of the United States, with an entire country’s problems, many of which you precipitated, piling up, and deciding your priority is threatening a state government over a convicted election-denier who tried to help you overturn democracy. This isn’t leadership, it’s mob-boss cosplay. The fact that Trump is demanding the release of someone actually found guilty in court shows how little he cares about law, justice, or reality. The man has nothing better to do than rage-post for criminals who served his lies.

Escape

(274 posts)
18. It's illegal to do this......
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:33 PM
Thursday

Right?

It's COERCION. It's CRIMINAL THREATS. It's CRIMINAL INTIMIDATION.

.............it's against the FUCKING law.

twodogsbarking

(15,236 posts)
19. Harsh measures sounds like daddy taking off his belt to, well, you know, or hopefully don't know.
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:37 PM
Thursday

Initech

(106,131 posts)
26. I think it's hilarious that MAGA reminds us everyday that "no one is above the law".
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:46 PM
Thursday

While that asshole is not only a convicted criminal himself, he's released more convicted criminals than any other president in United States history. All because they just kiss his worthless ass. WTF.

Warpy

(113,863 posts)
22. The death of her son seems to be what shen her down the rabbit hole
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:12 PM
Thursday

where she discovered Q and the cult of personality and those allowed her to numb out while giving her a higher purpose in life.

It's hard not to feel a little sorry for her, but she still chose to act on her insanity and she did damage.

Also, if you think 69 is ancient, perhaps you need to rethink your own stay in office. Leave, already. Asshole.

She belongs right where she is, but hey Fats, if you want to help one of your foot soldiers who got caught, why not send her some psychological help? You can certainly afford it since you've been quietly cashing in your Shitcoins to buy bonds.

'Fraid right now she belongs where she is. If her health does deteriorate, then maybe a compassionate commuttion will be in the works, but that's not your decision on any level, you enforged tick on the backside of humanity.

MayReasonRule

(3,729 posts)
35. "It's hard not to feel a little sorry for her..."
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:00 AM
Friday

Last edited Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:51 AM - Edit history (1)

I consider deterrence in sentencing that is both general and specific that the sentence I impose must deter Ms. Peters from engaging in similar conduct in the future, but it also must deter others generally from engaging in this type of conduct. I consider rehabilitation where appropriate. I consider punishment where appropriate. I also must ensure that the sentences I impose are consistent among offenders similarly situated, but I must also impose a sentence that is designed to meet Ms. Peters’s unique needs.

Here, the defense has, and Ms. Peters in particular, has remained quite defiant, which is her right, but certainly not helpful for her lot today. And in arguing why I should impose a particular sentence, she tells me about her ailments, her loss, her struggles, in life.

But in reality, for those of you who may have been here earlier this morning and seeing some of the folks who’ve occupied that chair before Ms. Peters, there could be not much in the way of a comparison in terms of the type of sympathy one would extend to Ms. Peters.

Those folks didn’t have four lawyers representing them. They didn’t have a team of assistants helping them. They’re not getting rides in private jets all over the country.

You know the people who sit in that chair struggle generally speaking, immeasurable trauma in life, struggle mightily with alcohol abuse, substance abuse, mental health struggles, family loss. They come from broken homes. The cards they were dealt were never the cards that you were dealt, Ms. Peters.

So when I hear you discuss, your husband, sadly passed away recently, your family struggles and your son who served our country admirably and made the ultimate sacrifice, I consider it.

And I note too, that he honored his oath to the country, something that is not lost on me when considering the circumstances under which you find yourself here.

Your age, limited criminal history and the like, are certainly somewhat mitigating, your ties to the community are what they are, but your reputation at this point is poor because of what you’ve done here and after.

Your lies are well documented and these convictions are serious. I’m convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You’re as defiant as a defendant as this court has ever seen.

You don’t have those histories of drug and alcohol abuse. There’s no lifetime of trauma, not even close to the type of mitigating circumstances I would see from many folks who sit in that chair, No, to the contrary, Ms. Peters, you are a privileged person.

You are as privileged as they come. And you use that privilege to obtain power, a following and fame. And to be sure, there’s no doubt in my mind that it is exactly what you wanted, and it defies all sense, of common sense, to believe when you suggested to me a few moments ago that you didn’t want this attention. No, you, you crave it, ma’am, and there is no one in this courtroom who would consider that to be anything other than the absolute truth.

But to get to the point of what it is that you did here, it’s my impression distinctly that you never took your job of clerking particularly seriously.

You didn’t complete the certification. One scandal after another followed you in your time as the clerk. And ultimately it was a belief that the echo chamber in which you live couldn’t be wrong among other things, that led you to do what you did here. This thought process unfortunately seems to consume so many in our country, regardless of race, gender, political affiliation or the like, that what it is we hear and think can’t possibly be wrong.

There are many things in my mind that are crystal clear about this case. You are no hero. You abused your position and you’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again. In your world, it’s all about you.

But at bottom, this case was about your corrupt conduct and how no one is above the law. No one in this country has absolute power. Your position as a clerk and recorder, a constitutional position, does not provide you with a means by which to do your own investigation, to not listen to the judiciary, to not listen to the executives higher than you, to not listen to the legislature who sets the law as it may be.

This is nonsense.

Our system of government can’t function when people in government think that somehow, some way the power they’ve been given is absolute in all respects. And that’s where you fell.

You have no respect for the checks and balances of government. You have no respect for this court. You have no respect for law enforcement, and you do not have respect for your fellow colleagues when you were a clerk and recorder who weren’t in lockstep in your beliefs.

Indeed, just weeks before trial, you were apparently doing what I mentioned earlier, that is over at the clerk and recorder’s office, where you’re not supposed to be, violating the protection order by speaking to employees of that entity with your camera crew in tow.

You have no qualms with violating the court’s orders because – you are innocent – because you didn’t do anything wrong – you were just doing your job. You have no problem trying to kick an officer.

Your explanation about what happened is preposterous. It’s on video. You have no problem lying to officers. It’s happened multiple times. They’re recorded conversations. It’s just more lies.

No objective person believes them. No, at the end of the day, you cared about the jets, the podcasts, and the people fawning over you. You abdicated your position as a servant to the constitution and you chose you over all else.

Yes, you are a charlatan and you cannot help but lie as easy as it is for you to breathe. You betrayed your oath for no one other than you.

And this is what makes Ms. Peters such a danger to our community. It’s the position she held that has provided her the pulpit from which she can preach these lies, the undermining of our democratic process, the undermining of the belief and confidence in our election systems. It’s not about questioning it. No one says you can’t question, you can’t ask. It’s completely different. And if you don’t understand that distinction, then there’s nothing I can say or do here today that will change your mind.

So the damage that is caused and continues to be caused is just as bad, if not worse, than the physical violence that this court sees on an all too regular basis. And it’s particularly damaging when those words come from someone who holds a position of influence like you.

Every effort to undermine the integrity of our elections and public’s trust in our institutions has been made by you. You’ve done it from that lectern the voting public provided you with, everything you’ve done has been done to retain control, influence. The damage is immeasurable.

And every time it gets refuted, every time it’s shown to be false, just another tale is weaved.

So I’ll begin by saying I’ve considered all of those purposes of a stay of an execution of a sentence. I’ve mentioned all of them here generally in my comments already, and I find that a stay of any sentence I impose would be wholly unwarranted.


https://www.youtube.com/live/Ks_P8NzBJEs?t=9537s

Judge Scolds ‘Privileged’ MAGA Election Official During Searing Sentencing
www.thedailybeast.com/tina-peters-...
Just a few months ago,Tina Peters said she won't shut up,she said they have to kill me or send me to prison!!!
And now she is going to prison !!

garci32 (@garci32.bsky.social) 2024-10-04T09:25:01.893Z

popsdenver

(295 posts)
38. An absolutely brilliant commentary, MRR
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:46 AM
Friday

Driving home all the Key points........well said !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She committed Right Wing Espionage against the country............actually her actions were directly intended for the Republicans to be able to corrupt the voting across the entire nation in all future elections..........................no different than the J6 insurrectionists............

MayReasonRule

(3,729 posts)
40. Turds Don't Fall Far From The Ass Within Which They Were Formed...
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:58 AM
Friday

Tina Peters is a fascist turd birthed in the septic bowels of the child-raping orange shit-gibbon that is Donald Trump and shat out of his prolapsed gaping asshole... which incidentally is simultaneously where Trump speaks from and where Trump's 'sense of taste' resides.

Explains a lot.



popsdenver

(295 posts)
41. Yes
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:33 PM
Friday

We here in Colorado have a history of totally corrupted Republican Politicians.

Starting with a totally corrupted Ann? Gorsuch, (BTW: whose son is a Supreme Court Justice), and another, Gale Norton, who as Colorado AJ....let Rockwell Corp skate on a World Class Toxic Waste Site outside of Boulder.......and that act earned her an immediate promotion to Secretary of the Interior under WBush......

I had a button I wore back in the 60's. I dug it out of my drawer a few years back, and started wearing it daily on my jacket I wore out in Public.
IGNORANCE SHOULD BE PAINFUL............LOL Interestingly the MAGAots who saw it, thought it was me calling out the DEMS.......LOL

popsdenver

(295 posts)
43. Corrected entry of my commentary
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:54 PM
Friday

We here in Colorado have a history of totally corrupted Republican Politicians.

Starting with a totally corrupted Ann? Gorsuch, (BTW: whose son is a Supreme Court Justice), and another, Gale Norton, who as Colorado AJ....let Rockwell Corp skate on a World Class Toxic Waste Site outside of Boulder.......and that act earned her an immediate promotion to Secretary of the Interior under WBush......( a member of the Grand Jury was soooo upset with what Gale Norton did, that he leaked to the local media what the Grand Jury decided vs what she did, that he went to prison for leaking the horrific plutonium contamination and the tiny hand slap she gave Rockwell and Dow? as punishment......The IMMEDIATE site of Rocky Flats will be permanently vacated for thousands of years, and there is nothing that can be realistically be done for the 34 square miles down wind that were polluted with 14lbs of powdered plutonium that escaped.....

I had a button I wore back in the 60's. I dug it out of my drawer a few years back, and started wearing it daily on my jacket I wore out in Public.
IGNORANCE SHOULD BE PAINFUL............LOL Interestingly the MAGAots who saw it, thought it was me calling out the DEMS.......LOL

MayReasonRule

(3,729 posts)
45. 34 square miles down wind that were polluted with 14lbs of powdered plutonium that escaped.....
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 02:47 PM
Friday

Dead on point.

Ignorance is painful.

Painful for all, not just the ignorant.

You just listed a prime example.

Trouble is, there's no easy way when you're a hardcore 'believer' and you 'trust' in the schemes of the fools and the dreamers.

When jubilant elation meets ultimate sorrow, catastrophe's joy can take 'em decades to swallow.

TLDR: You can't fix stupid.

Warpy

(113,863 posts)
42. I can't manage walls of text so I can't reply to your whole message
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:53 PM
Friday

but I know she was defiant at her sentencing, that's how cults work. It takes a lot of deprogramming to break through the conditioning.

When I said I felt a bit sorry for her, I'd feel sorry for anyone who was preyed upon by these scumbags after the shock of losing a son who had survived war and finding out one's husband was dying of cancer. These are human things and deserve some compassion.

However, I have never been so open minded that my brains have fallen out and I did say she did damage and belongs where she is, barring some terminal illness down the road with compassionate release once she can do no more harm.

Sorry if that wasn't clear enough..

MayReasonRule

(3,729 posts)
46. No Insult Was Intended At All, In Any Way Or Form... Thank You For Responding In The First Place!
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 03:01 PM
Friday

I too am empathetic in a lot of respects to those that are caught up within delusion.

It's the rare individual that escapes.

The reason is because Delusion always gives birth to further Delusion in order to sustain the original premise of the first Delusion.

I too am empathetic with those caught up within acute emotional distress.
Mental illness is very real.

When I said I felt a bit sorry for her, I'd feel sorry for anyone who was preyed upon by these scumbags after the shock of losing a son who had survived war and finding out one's husband was dying of cancer. These are human things and deserve some compassion.


I wholeheartedly agree.

However, I have never been so open minded that my brains have fallen out and I did say she did damage and belongs where she is, barring some terminal illness down the road with compassionate release once she can do no more harm.


Unfortunately for me I was reared to be so 'open minded' that I lost 'me'...
I was reared and inculcated within the Abrahamic blood cults of 'Christ'.
I was taught to become "None of self and all of Thee."
I literally lost myself by the age of eight.

I and my honey were reared together and struggle not to be overly compassionate when dealing with those that inflict harm upon us.

I apologize for the 'wall' of text.
I'd just listened to a rebroadcast of the sentencing audio via Radio Garden and was honestly flabbergasted by how the moved I was by the Judge.

It allowed me to move on from being overly compassionate for this particular individual whose case I'd not followed that closely.

Happy Friday to ya' again and thank you for your discussing your insights here on DU!

You're always incisive!

Thank you for that!

Warpy

(113,863 posts)
49. Not insulted, just too blind to read lots of text
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 05:14 PM
Friday

I survived Catholic school, so I understand. I've also seen friends in crisis fall down various rabbit holes, some with sociopaths at the bottom, waiting for them. Yes, I feel sorry for her. I still don't want her walking free while she can sill do damage.

MayReasonRule

(3,729 posts)
54. Right On... I And Mine Are The Only Members Of Our Families That Escaped
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 06:34 PM
Friday

All of the rest of the members of our families are firmly embroiled within the Abrahamic blood cults of 'Christ' as Nat-C's...

There's no easy way when one is caught up within delusion.

No easy way at all.

I was reared to be and do what it is that Mike Johnson is today.

The childhood home in which we reside today is less than twenty-miles from where Mike Johnson was reared.

I'm forever grateful to have rejected that proposition.

We're grateful each day to have escaped.

Initech

(106,131 posts)
25. Fuck you Trump! Tina Peters is a POS who belongs in prison!
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:44 PM
Thursday

And so do all of your J6 nutcases! You say "no one is above the law" but you constantly release convicted criminals on the street because they kiss your worthless ass.

Aviation Pro

(14,667 posts)
27. Shouldn't you be doing a weapons check, Private Fucking Pedophile?
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:56 PM
Thursday

For your big patrol? Don't have a fucking ND, you fucking spaz.

Baitball Blogger

(50,823 posts)
29. The cable news absolutely cannot overlook this.
Thu Aug 21, 2025, 11:13 PM
Thursday

EVERYONE must have a chance to see how Trump is extorting Colorado, using the power of the Federal government.

Jack Valentino

(3,104 posts)
30. so Trump is going to RESUME POSTING IN UPPERCAPS ON LIES CENTRAL ?
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 12:01 AM
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That WOULD be SERIOUS, the MOST SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
that ANYONE has EVER SEEN!!!!


(Gavin inspired response here)


popsdenver

(295 posts)
39. He already has started
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 11:56 AM
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with ICE? months ago............and recently stated that what he is doing in DC, he would like to do in LA and Denver to name a few targeted cities...

The Republicans, years ago, proved they will stop at nothing.........Look no further than what Trump, his incestuous spawn daughter, and her husband did with the PPE during covid to the State of Massachusetts.................................

BumRushDaShow

(158,795 posts)
50. Here is a good summary
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 05:32 PM
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Prosecutors: Former Colorado clerk who leaked voting machine data committed simple ‘deceit and fraud’

Amanda Pampuro / July 31, 2024

(snip)

Peters faces three felony counts of attempting to influence a public servant, four felony counts related to impersonation and identity theft and a misdemeanor count each of official misconduct, violating her duties and failing to comply with the secretary of state’s requirements.

Prosecutors say that in May 2021, Peters instructed her deputy clerk to turn off security cameras and arranged for associate Conan Hayes to observe and photograph the voting machine trusted build, an update process conducted in person since the machines can’t connect to the Internet.

Peters then reportedly sent data and passwords to a Florida-based company for analysis and allowed them to be posted on the social media site Telegram by Ron Watkins, a key player in the QAnon conspiracy movement.

District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein investigated Peters' claims of election fraud and discovered several instances of human error rather than an attempt to change the results of an election. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold decertified the county’s voting machines, prompting commissioners to shell out $96,153 on a contract extension to get new machines.

(snip)

Bengus81

(9,209 posts)
51. Thanks...so all election denier Lindell did was give her money for legal fees.
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 05:42 PM
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LOL....Bet that broke idiot wishes he could have that money back about now.

BumRushDaShow

(158,795 posts)
53. He did more than that!
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 06:18 PM
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He funded one of the GOP's infamous "films", featuring her, related to their manufactured "voter fraud" - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143245019

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20863620/

(snip)

Peters, who was featured in the Lindell-funded 2020 election conspiracy movie “[S]election Code,” is accused at the state level of tampering with election equipment, attempting to influence public servants, and engaging in official misconduct by allowing an unauthorized third party to make copies of voting machine hard drives, leading “confidential digital images” of county Dominion Voting Systems equipment and passwords to be “published on the internet.”

(snip)


They had done a search and seizure on him (and took his phone) to get evidence on Peters - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142972567

Lovie777

(19,902 posts)
52. A lawsuit from cities being threaten .....
Fri Aug 22, 2025, 05:44 PM
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comes to mind.

shithole essentially terrorizing American citizens.

Here in LA we are fighting back, even the NG are not happy.

And the nerve of red states sending NG wherein their cities have higher crime rates .

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