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mahatmakanejeeves

(66,379 posts) Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:36 AM Thursday

"Trump now threatens the state of Colorado if they don't let one of his supporters out of prison ..."

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Ron Filipkowski
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Trump now threatens the state of Colorado if they don’t let one of his supporters out of prison who was convicted by a jury of multiple felonies.

August 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM

Trump now threatens the state of Colorado if they donâ€™t let one of his supporters out of prison who was convicted by a jury of multiple felonies.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-08-21T12:18:08.316Z

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"Trump now threatens the state of Colorado if they don't let one of his supporters out of prison ..." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Thursday OP

Will Colorado kiss ass like everyone else? Irish_Dem Thursday #1

Plenty of maga crazies here mountain grammy Thursday #3

Donald trump fucks little kids Hornedfrog2000 Thursday #2

Dump rapes little kids Clouds Passing Thursday #8

No, I don't think Colorado will..................... Lovie777 Thursday #4

Tina Peters was convicted on state charges so no possibility of a Presidential pardon VMA131Marine Thursday #5

This will be a very interesting case to watch. TommyT139 Thursday #6

Harsh measures? Like the serious consequences D. Spaulding Thursday #7

MaddowBlog-Trump threatens Colorado with 'harsh measures' unless it frees a convicted felon LetMyPeopleVote Thursday #9

Can't she just be sent to South America and be forgotten? twodogsbarking Thursday #10

CO, PLEASE! Fuck rapey, sick, orange felon, and say HELL NO! lark Thursday #11

Irish_Dem

(73,311 posts)

1. Will Colorado kiss ass like everyone else?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:40 AM

Thursday

mountain grammy

(28,106 posts)

3. Plenty of maga crazies here

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:47 AM

Thursday

But hopefully not enough.

Hornedfrog2000

(763 posts)

2. Donald trump fucks little kids

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:44 AM

Thursday

Just wanted to remind people

Clouds Passing

(5,598 posts)

8. Dump rapes little kids

Reply to Hornedfrog2000 (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 11:10 AM

Thursday

Lovie777

(19,838 posts)

4. No, I don't think Colorado will.....................

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 08:56 AM

Thursday

the threats need to stop. D.C. is already backfiring as well as California.

Enough.

VMA131Marine

(5,070 posts)

5. Tina Peters was convicted on state charges so no possibility of a Presidential pardon

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:00 AM

Thursday

There is nothing he can legally do to Colorado to force them to release Tina Peters. In fact, they would probably have to break state law to do so absent a pardon by the governor. People die in prison all the time, why should this criminal get a break?

TommyT139

(1,743 posts)

6. This will be a very interesting case to watch.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:26 AM

Thursday

Because if he gets away with this, that opens up a whole new territory if corruption of the justice system.

D. Spaulding

(351 posts)

7. Harsh measures? Like the serious consequences

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 09:34 AM

Thursday

he threatened on Russia if there was no ceasefire coming out of the recent summit?

LetMyPeopleVote

(168,402 posts)

9. MaddowBlog-Trump threatens Colorado with 'harsh measures' unless it frees a convicted felon

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 01:01 PM

Thursday

The president threatened to punish the state unless it agrees to free Tina Peters. Even by 2025 standards, this really isn't normal.

I know it's easy to roll oneâ€™s eyes at the daily nonsense, but consider Trumpâ€™s line on Tina Peters in context:

A sitting American president is threatening to impose "harsh measures" on an American state unless it frees a convicted felon that he likes. That's insane. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-08-21T16:06:45.056Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-free-tina-peters-colorado-harsh-measures-rcna226315

The effort didn’t amount to much, but the president’s interest in the case didn’t fade. And in May, the Republican not only called for Peters’ release from prison, he also directed the Justice Department to take “all necessary action” to help secure her freedom. As part of the same online harangue, Trump, who lacks the authority to pardon those convicted of state crimes, went on to describe Peters as a “Political Prisoner” and a “hostage” whose trial deserved to be seen as “a Communist persecution.”

This, too, went largely ignored, prompting the president to kick things up a notch. NBC News reported:

Trump threatened to take unspecified ‘harsh measures’ if Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, is not released from prison. The president referred to Peters as ‘a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians,’ calling to ‘FREE TINA PETERS.’

......Despite Trump’s apparent interest in her case, there’s effectively nothing he can do: This was a state official, charged with state crimes, by state prosecutors, in a state court, with a state jury, overseen by a state judge, which necessarily means neither the president nor his Justice Department can overturn Peters’ criminal conviction.

But Trump apparently finds that unsatisfying. He wants to free his conspiratorial ally anyway, and so he’s now threatening a state in his own country with unspecified “harsh measures.”

I won’t pretend to know what, if anything, will come of this, but for all of the hysterical and baseless Republican conspiracy theories during Joe Biden’s presidency about “weaponized” prosecutions and a “two-tiered” justice system, Trump and his team are creating the very conditions the GOP condemned. The incumbent president — through his scandalous pardons, his intervention in cases such as Peters’ and his willingness to sic prosecutors on his perceived political enemies — is going out of his way to make clear that his allies will be held to different legal standards than everyone else.

The brazenness is so plainly ridiculous, the Trump administration is hardly even trying to keep up appearances — and there’s every reason to believe this will get worse in the coming days, weeks, months and years.

twodogsbarking

(15,184 posts)

10. Can't she just be sent to South America and be forgotten?

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:21 PM

Thursday

lark

(25,384 posts)

11. CO, PLEASE! Fuck rapey, sick, orange felon, and say HELL NO!

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 02:50 PM

Thursday

Tina Peters earned her jail time trying to destroy Co,.'s vote, she's should stay there evert sigle day of her sentence

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