Colorado Gov. Jared Polis freed Tina Peters today and called it sentencing reform.
He may even have believed it. Peters is an election denier who helped Mike Lindell’s people copy a Colorado county’s voting machines. She is part of the coup attempt that ran for weeks after Trump lost the 2020 election. Trump couldn’t pardon her because she was convicted of state, not federal, crimes. So he spent more than a year punishing Colorado instead.
Calling Polis a “scumbag” who should “rot in hell,” Trump denied disaster aid to the state and moved U.S. Space Command out of Colorado. Polis folded. Within minutes Trump posted “FREE TINA!” Other governors are watching. Use 5 Calls or Resistbot to tell your governor to refuse to cave in when Trump pressures them.
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