Trump To Destroy Colorado In Effort To Free Tina Peters (Wonkette)

[orangecrush]

Last edited Mon Dec 29, 2025, 12:55 PM - Edit history (2)

Trump has denied requests for disaster relief from the Elk and Lee fires and the flooding in southwestern Colorado, too, though the administration denies that that was over Peters. Guess that was just because.

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Tina Peters is a lifelong grifter, and game recognizes game, we guess. She got her start peddling a multi-level marketing scheme called Nikken, with a “holistic nutrition” correspondence degree from a non-accredited institution. Her archived website is a hoot:

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But she was terrible at the job! In February 2020, employees in Peters’s office discovered an unemptied ballot box in a parking lot in front of the Mesa County election headquarters in Grand Junction, with 574 ballots cast in the November 2019 election that been sitting there going uncounted for months (fortunately they did not affect the outcome of any race). Employees also alleged her office missed deadlines, employed improper procedures, committed vote-counting errors, and ran up questionable expenses, leading to 24 of 32 employees quitting and an attempt to recall her from office that failed in August of 2020. And, said the state’s attorney general, she did not file the office’s financial reports for three years!

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So it was against that backdrop of embattlement and failure that in November of 2020 that dumbass Peters and her co-conspirators hatched that strange and stupid scheme, to help a former pro Hawaiian goofyfoot surfer named Conan Hayes break into Mesa County’s voting machines in an attempt to prove that fraud that did not happen actually did. Peters’s part included getting Hayes a fake ID with the name “Gerald Wood,” turning off security cameras, and buying all of the co-conspirators burner phones to chat on. And Hayes, by the way, got paid about $200k by Patrick Byrne, the stolen-election-liar weirdo from Overstock dot com who used to bump bits with Russian agent Maria Butina. And the fucking morons even took pictures and videos of what they were doing, and Hayes FaceTimed Byrne from the room!"


https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-to-destroy-colorado-in-effort

[sop]

1. Peters: "A snake-oil peddling charlatan"

Naturally, Trump wants Tina out of prison (snake-oil peddling charlatans have to stick together), so he'll destroy Colorado to get his way.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. If there is a way to fight Trump, it's through the courts.

I bet that the things Trump plans to do to Colorado can be delayed or revoked through a court order.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

3. I would imagine that the ball is already rolling on that.

Colorado needs to stand strong against this illegitimate regime of Trumpedo and continue to refuse illegal attempts to free the convicted felon, Tina Peters, which, so far, has been the case and Gov. Polis is showing no signs of backing down from Trumpedo's demands.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Right. Because it occurred to me that somewhere down the line Trump will want to get a pardon from

the next GOP president, (probably Vance), and that pardon means nothing if it can't extend to the States.

So, this is a trial balloon.

[BidenRocks]

9. Modifying the pardon power must be an action item

as soon as we're back. Kill his ability to pardon all his war criminals.
He profits from our loose laws and attacks other countries saying they have loose laws.

I would rather be doing anything besides being pissed that our country is fucked up!

[Baitball Blogger]

12. God yes.

[orangecrush]

5. There is another reason

Trump wants his operatives to know that if they tamper with election machines in the mid terms, they will not face consequences.

That's why it is so important to fight him on this.

[GiqueCee]

6. That's assuming...

... that trump will honor a court order. Butthook Roberts and the Sinister Six will just affirm that whatever despicable actions he takes against Colorado, or anyone else, were part of his normal presidential duties, so any radical libs that still think the Constitution matters, can go suck a tailpipe.

[BidenRocks]

10. States rights?

[Qutzupalotl]

7. Colorado was also the state that declared Trump an insurrectionist

and therefore disqualified from higher office. That was correct, but they stayed their own decision and punted to the Supreme Court, which responded by nullifying part of the 14th Amendment.

[wolfie001]

8. fat orange imbecile

Worst American in our nation's history. I wonder how many direct and indirect deaths this fat jackass has caused at this point. Many more to follow. Remember, family and "friends" and coworkers are accountable as contributing to this menace.

[Initech]

11. Fuck you Donny. Tina Peters is right where she belongs.

And so do most of your election denying criminal buddies. She can share a cell with Jill Stein.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. MaddowBlog-Trump gives away the game on his motivations for the first vetoes of his second term

The president has threatened to impose “harsh measures” on Colorado unless the state frees a felon he likes. We now know what that means in practice.

Trump wants a blue state to free a convicted felon he likes. Since the state disagrees, the White House keeps punishing the state and its residents.

Let’s not lose sight of how utterly bonkers this is. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-02T17:20:25.857Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-gives-away-the-game-on-his-motivations-for-the-first-vetoes-of-his-second-term

The pipeline project in Colorado, like the measure for the Miccosukee Tribe, cleared Capitol Hill with overwhelming bipartisan support. And if White House officials had any concerns about the effort, they kept those opinions to themselves.

With this in mind, when Trump vetoed the bill, observers were left with a limited number of possible explanations: (1) Maybe the president was punishing Colorado as part of the Tina Peters case; (2) perhaps he was punishing Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado over her support for Epstein files transparency; or (3) both.

Trump helped shed light on his reasoning soon afterward. Politico reported:

President Donald Trump told POLITICO on Wednesday that he vetoed a bipartisan bill to fund a Colorado water project because he views it as a waste of taxpayer money, saying residents are leaving the state under Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.

‘They’re wasting a lot of money and people are leaving the state. They’re leaving the state in droves. Bad governor,’ Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with POLITICO.

Around the same time, the president published an item to his social media platform in which he called Colorado’s Democratic governor a “scumbag,” before concluding, in reference to Polis and other state officials: “I wish them only the worst. May they rot in Hell.”

In other words, Colorado hasn’t freed a prisoner convicted of a felony whom Trump likes, and so the White House appears to be taking steps to punish the state.

Indeed, the veto of the pipeline bill, known as the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, was the latest in a series of anti-Colorado moves from the Republican administration. As The New York Times summarized, “Miffed at Colorado’s votes against him in three successive elections and furious at its refusal to free Tina Peters, a convicted election denier and ardent Trump supporter, Mr. Trump has opened an assault against the Democratic-run state. His administration has cut off transportation money, relocated the military’s Space Command, vowed to dismantle a leading climate and weather research center and rejected disaster relief for rural counties hammered by floods and wildfires.”....

In August, Trump threatened to impose “harsh measures” on the Rocky Mountain State unless it agreed to release Peters from prison several years before her sentence runs its course. We’re now getting a better sense of what that means in practice.