Bob Unruh wrote in an Aug. 21 WorldNetDaily article:
President Donald Trump on Thursday renewed his call for freedom for “Patriot” Tina Peters, a former Colorado county elections official jailed by the leftists in the state on their charges of election interference.
She was indicted, convicted, and jailed for allegedly releasing one inactive password to an elections system several years ago.
However, the Democrat government there handed a free pass to Jena Griswold, the Democrat secretary of state in the one-party government after she oversaw her office’s publication online of hundreds of current passwords.
As we documented the last time he did this, Unruh is lying. Peters did much more than “releasing one inactive password” — she allowed a security card accessing the Mesa County election system to be misused by a fellow election denier, and was then deceptive about who that person was. Prosecutors and the judge pointed out that Peters was trying to make herself famous by promoting fraud claims, even though no vote discrepancies were found in Mesa County. Meanwhile, Griswold’s situation is not remotely analogous to that of Peters — it was an employee in Griswold’s office who posted the passwords, not Griswold herself, the posting was done inadvertently because they were hidden within the posted document. By contrast, passwords Peters gave out ended up being posted on a right-wing blog.
Still, Unruh slipped in another anti-Colorado tirade: “Griswold earned the backing of the Democrat political machine in her failed attempt to remove President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, a move that was approved by her own all-Democrat state Supreme Court but reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court.” He then touted the idea of Trump revenge against the state:
While Peters was convicted under state law, and Trump cannot pardon her in that case, the president does have the power, through the executive branch control of the federal government’s grants, allocations of federal resources and much more, to make her jailors uncomfortable.
Unruh then rehashed yet another anti-Colorado tirade:
WND previously reported that Peters “was a conservative in the far-left state, where the all-Democrat state Supreme Court partisanly tried to remove Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot. Where virtually all of the top state leaders in the governor’s office and legislature are virulently anti-Trump.”
Further, it’s where “leftists in population centers like Denver and Boulder openly advocate for Americans’ rights to be violated in order to protect illegal alien criminals. Where abortion was made a state constitutional “right” and the state constitution’s protection for voters against massive overtaxing plans routinely is undermined. For example, Democrat lawmakers, faced with constitutional limits on raising ‘taxes,’ routinely hike them anyway and then simply call them ‘fees.’ For example, state residents who license vehicles and pay taxes have to pay a ‘fee’ for roads and bridges. Visitors to the state using the same roads and bridges don’t pay that ‘fee.'”
Unruh repeated his factually flawed defense of Peters, and his dishonest Griswold whataboutism, in an Aug. 29 article:
Tina Peters, nearly 70, is imprisoned in Colorado in a Democrat lawfare case that erupted after the 2020 election.
She was convicted in the leftist courts of the leftist state of infringing their rules regarding passwords for elections systems and jailed, even though the state’s current secretary, Democrat Jena Griswold, unleashed hundreds of active passwords online and was given a free pass by Democrat prosecutors.
Her case is being appealed, and even President Donald Trump has told the DOJ to check for options to intervene in the state case.
[…]She was indicted, convicted, and jailed for allegedly releasing one inactive password to an elections system several years ago.
However, Griswold was given a free pass for having hundreds of current passwords online.
Unruh then touted an interview with Peters by Joe Hoft, brother of Jim Hoft of the notoriously unreliable Gateway Pundit:
“If you’re just going to stand after you’ve done all those things. Yeah. A lot of people won’t do that. They’ll throw it on haphazardly, and then the armor, and then they’ll go hide somewhere, wait for a miracle to happen. You got to stand. You got to stand no matter what,” she said in an interview with Joe Hoft.
[…]Hoft prayed with Peters during her telephone call to him, from her prison location.
“Our dear Lord Jesus, we’re so grateful to hear from Tina today. It lifts my spirit and heart, and we’ll share more about what Tina’s going through. Keep this story alive. We love Tina, and we thank you for protecting her and granting her safety in such a terrible situation. We know that you’re going to be there for us until the end. We just need to hang in there, keep our faith, and have trust in you. Miracles, more miracles are going to happen by the day. In your name, we love you. Thank you, Tina.”
Peters, whose case recently saw a new filing, explained, “Well, I’m still fighting, but I have a lot of hope. We got a lot of people praying for me, and I know a lot of people praying for you. And ultimately, that’s what’s going to save us all.”
She explained, “You don’t know how much courage you have until that’s the only choice you have. You don’t know. Some people will run, some people will freeze, and some people go forward into the fight. And people like you and me, we go forward into the fight. I mean, we just, you know what I’m used to say, it raises a Navy seal for nothing. It’s like, we can’t back down, we can’t give up, and we can’t give in.”
Unruh never explains how it’s “lawfare” to prosecute a public official who committed a crime. And he’s certainly not going to do his job as a professional journalist by telling the full story of Peters — that’s not what WND pays him to do.