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BumRushDaShow

(165,170 posts)
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:37 AM Dec 12

Colorado Governor Shoots Down Trump Pardon of Tina Peters

Source: Newsweek

Published Dec 12, 2025 at 03:57 AM EST updated Dec 12, 2025 at 03:58 AM EST


Colorado Governor Jared Polis rejected President Donald Trump’s declaration that he has granted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters a “full pardon” saying it 'is a matter for the courts to decide".

Peters, who was convicted in 2024 on multiple state charges—including attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation—remains incarcerated at La Vista Correctional Facility while her appeal proceeds.

In a post on X Thursday, Polis wrote that Peters “was convicted by a jury of her peers, prosecuted by a Republican District Attorney, and found guilty of violating Colorado state laws, including criminal impersonation. No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions. This is a matter for the courts to decide, and we will abide by court orders.”

Trump’s announcement does not affect Peters’ state sentence, which can only be altered under Colorado law by the governor.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/colorado-governor-shoots-down-trump-pardon-of-tina-peters-11199784



REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143580977
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Colorado Governor Shoots Down Trump Pardon of Tina Peters (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 12 OP
You have to give the fat, orange imbecile some credit...... wolfie001 Dec 12 #1
Only a Governor Grant pardons for State convictions/charges. ProudMNDemocrat Dec 12 #2
Yeah take THAT DonOLD Rump you stupid, fat, ugly, piece of crap. Trueblue1968 Dec 13 #24
Then it is settled. Sneederbunk Dec 12 #3
Not necessarily. Sounds like it is under appeal...nt Wounded Bear Dec 12 #5
She's stuck in the big house while Farmer-Rick Dec 12 #10
So now maybe we will see... WestMichRad Dec 12 #4
Thankfully, EOs are not laws. ... littlemissmartypants Dec 12 #7
Trump will forever tout the fact that he pardoned Tina Peters and his base will love him for it ToxMarz Dec 12 #6
You are absolutely on target. It's his... littlemissmartypants Dec 12 #8
Yeah, the reality show NJCher Dec 12 #9
I live in Colorado and so will tell you I have not been particularly impressed with Polis. I would have like to have PatrickforB Dec 12 #11
Same here k0rs Dec 12 #15
We need to elect Phil Weiser soldierant Dec 12 #21
In other words, "Fuck you, Donald Trump." Martin68 Dec 12 #12
Colorado Governor Shoots Down Trump twodogsbarking Dec 12 #13
Move her to solitary confinement! BidenRocks Dec 12 #14
MaddowBlog-Trump's pardon for Colorado's Tina Peters suffers from one fatal flaw LetMyPeopleVote Dec 12 #16
TY.. Moe Stupid than Peters and she's Cha Dec 12 #18
Dotard knows what's in the Constitution???? AZ8theist Dec 12 #22
Good on Ya, Gov Polis!! Cha Dec 12 #17
But, but...... SergeStorms Dec 12 #19
Her warden should instruct jailors to greet her Hassler Dec 12 #20
First five words of subject line had me excited for a minute. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Dec 12 #23
As usual, the MAGAmaniacal maniacs are dragging this issue down into a rabbit hole of insanity... Ol Janx Spirit Dec 13 #25
This pardon is meaningless LetMyPeopleVote Dec 13 #26

wolfie001

(6,957 posts)
1. You have to give the fat, orange imbecile some credit......
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 10:10 AM
Dec 12

.....his lawless criminal instincts are bottomless. Flaming POS.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,557 posts)
2. Only a Governor Grant pardons for State convictions/charges.
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 10:38 AM
Dec 12

No matter what TACO Don wants, he is not getting it.

Farmer-Rick

(12,407 posts)
10. She's stuck in the big house while
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:42 AM
Dec 12

Her appeal is being processed. So, yeah she's a criminal that pedo Trump can't legally pardon. I mean, eventually, if the dancing Supremes decide to hear it, her appeal process may end. But even if the dancing Supremes say the pedo can pardon state criminals, the state has no reason to follow an illegal ruling by the Supremes to release her.

The US Constitution says he can only pardon offenses against the United States. The Dancing Supremes have to do a lot of tap dancing to turn that around to give their favorite pedo the power to reach into a state and overturn the state's criminal prosecution.

But you never know. With enough money you can buy anything and anybody you want thanks to capitalism. So maybe the Supremes again violate the US Constitution and let her escape her crimes. Since precedent is no longer a thing for the Supremes and the US now operates on the whims of demented fool, maybe she could get her pardon. You got to wonder who is paying for her. The pedo sells the pardons and she's not a rich person and even bad lawyers got to get paid. So who's paying for her?

WestMichRad

(2,886 posts)
4. So now maybe we will see...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 10:49 AM
Dec 12

An executive order saying this president can pardon anyone for anything that he wants, Nyah Nyah!

littlemissmartypants

(31,437 posts)
7. Thankfully, EOs are not laws. ...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:12 AM
Dec 12

Not that PPP* and his criminal Regime of Psychopaths care.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior


*PPP (President Psychopath Pedophile)

ToxMarz

(2,727 posts)
6. Trump will forever tout the fact that he pardoned Tina Peters and his base will love him for it
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:04 AM
Dec 12

Its just his pardon has no weight, like his FIFA Peace Prize. They don't care, he really couldn't care less if she's in prison or not, its all about the optics for his reality show production.

littlemissmartypants

(31,437 posts)
8. You are absolutely on target. It's his...
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:21 AM
Dec 12

Any publicity even bad publicity is good publicity philosophy. And it's 100% true for anything that's being promoted. The main goal is to keep things fresh in people's minds. Which is why "flood the zone" is so effective.

To have a message valued, which is the ultimate point of message communication, it must be repeated for a minimum average of 15 times.

I am educated in communication science, one of my multiple degrees is an M.S. degree. Just to clarify why I'm so confident about this.

NJCher

(42,314 posts)
9. Yeah, the reality show
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:22 AM
Dec 12

Of his dementia-decimated mind where the U.S. economy is in free fall over his suppressed Labor Dept data, where he has produced more jobs than any president ever, and where tariffs make him the miracle meddler.

PatrickforB

(15,329 posts)
11. I live in Colorado and so will tell you I have not been particularly impressed with Polis. I would have like to have
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 11:52 AM
Dec 12

seen a more vigorous response like FUCK YOU FEDS!

Just saying...because we Coloradans are getting screwed to the wall by a) the Trump administration not releasing allocated funding into Colorado, AND by b) the disgusting rise in healthcare premium costs - 19.2% this year. And here we are paying lots of federal taxes, and for what? Nothing.

Hmm...taxation without representation. That caused a big stir 300-odd years ago, didn't it?

k0rs

(147 posts)
15. Same here
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 04:09 PM
Dec 12

I watched Polis on Magavision saying "We will abide by the courts." I was hoping he would say "NO FUCKING WAY." He sounded weak as water. Hope there's more spine there than came through on the boob toob. Left me wondering where is our Gov Newsom?

soldierant

(9,254 posts)
21. We need to elect Phil Weiser
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 09:16 PM
Dec 12

who is currently (term limited as) our AG, But first he needs to beat Bennet in the primary. He is tough and he really cares. If you're not familiar with him or his campaign, do look him up.

He had me before he announced - what he has done for the state has been amazing. He announced right after Boebert won her current district, and I moved my mothly contribution I had been sending to Adam Frisch over to Phil.

And spread the word.

BidenRocks

(2,696 posts)
14. Move her to solitary confinement!
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 03:00 PM
Dec 12

Chump's help is hurting you!
Zero empathy!
Hurt them! It's our turn to take off the safeties and inflict pain!
No Fucks Left To Give!

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,290 posts)
16. MaddowBlog-Trump's pardon for Colorado's Tina Peters suffers from one fatal flaw
Fri Dec 12, 2025, 04:10 PM
Dec 12

Presidents can’t pardon individuals convicted of state crimes. Whether Trump understands that isn’t entirely clear.

Trump’s pardon for Colorado’s Tina Peters suffers from one fatal flaw: she was convicted under state law. Trump can't pardon state crimes.

How stupid is Donny Trump? www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Cheeky Tart (@svenable.bsky.social) 2025-12-12T16:32:51.170Z


https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-pardon-tina-peters-colorado

Over the course of the past year, Donald Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to help Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who’s currently in prison for election crimes. The one step the president had not taken was to issue a pardon, since that wouldn’t make any sense.

Late Thursday, he did it anyway. The Associated Press reported:

President Donald Trump issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters on Thursday, but it alone won’t free the former Colorado elections administrator who was convicted under state laws of orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.


.....In August, Trump threatened Colorado with “harsh measures” unless the state agreed to release Peters, who he claimed had been “tortured by Crooked Colorado politicians.” More recently, Trump’s Federal Bureau of Prisons contacted the Colorado Department of Corrections, seeking to transfer Peters from a state prison to federal custody, but that didn’t work, either.

Left with no other options, the president announced a pardon for Peters.

Except that won’t work, either. Peters faced state prosecution over state crimes. She was tried and convicted in state court. She was sentenced by a state judge and sent to a state prison.

A federal pardon might make Trump feel better, but it’s also utterly irrelevant. As Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser explained in a written statement, “One of the most basic principles of our constitution is that states have independent sovereignty and manage our own criminal justice systems without interference from the federal government. The idea that a president could pardon someone tried and convicted in state court has no precedent in American law, would be an outrageous departure from what our constitution requires, and will not hold up.”

The question, however, is whether Trump knows this.

It’s possible that the president, desperate to assist an ally he’s powerless to help, issued the pardon as a symbolic gesture, grudgingly aware of the fact that it will change nothing. What’s unclear, however, is whether Trump intended this to have some force of law as Peters’ attorney continues to work to get his client out of prison. Watch this space.

Ol Janx Spirit

(613 posts)
25. As usual, the MAGAmaniacal maniacs are dragging this issue down into a rabbit hole of insanity...
Sat Dec 13, 2025, 09:51 AM
Dec 13

Florida-based attorney, Peter Ticktin, channels his best Lewis Carroll to take us into a fantasy-world of logic-bending nonsense in his elaborate plea to the President justifying both the pardon and the concept that he has the power to pardon people for state offenses--because (brace yourself,) "when we consider the United States, it's personal pronoun is "it" which exemplifies that it is one nation."

If you are in the mood for a little "Peters in Wonderland" you should read the full letter here:
https://coloradonewsline.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sup.-Cover-Letter-for-Application-for-Pardon-for-Tina-Peters.pdf

It even details her time in incarceration which will just make you want to cry a river for her until you remember the words Alligator Alcatraz. Yeah, ef these people....

But could the United States calling itself "it" instead of "him/her" be enough for the Supreme Joke of the United States to grant this--and only this one--President pardon power over any and all offences committed in the entire country regardless of jurisdiction?

You would have to say maybe...sadly. It doesn't seem to take much.

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