WorldNetDaily continued its bogus whitewashing of former Colorado election official Tina Peters in a melodrama- and pathos-packed Sept. 18 WorldNetDaily article by Alicia Powe:
In the shadow of a weaponized deep state that devours its own patriots like so many discarded ballot stubs, Tina Peters – grandmother, Gold Star mom and election watchdog – languishes in a Colorado prison hellhole, her iron bars a monument to the radical left’s unquenchable thirst for vengeance.
Rather than justice, most see it as the result of a Stalinist show trial, scripted by election-denying Democrats who fear the sunlight she dared to shine on their rigged machines.
And now, from the bully pulpit of the White House, President Donald J. Trump has roared his defiance of the corrupt system, branding Peters a “brave and innocent Patriot” tortured by “Crooked Colorado politicians” and demanding her chains be shattered immediately.
Trump, the unbowed warrior who survived impeachments, indictments and an assassin’s bullet, sees in Peters the mirror of his own crusade: a lone truth-teller crushed under the boot of a fraudulent regime that stole 2020 and now silences anyone who exposes the crime.
Thus it is that, in a chilling tale of justice gone awry, a small-town election official currently sits behind bars, her life upended by a system that seems determined to silence her.
Tina Peters, once the trusted Mesa County clerk, now faces a staggering nine-year prison sentence, convicted of crimes her own prosecutors essentially admit she didn’t commit.
Her “crime”? Daring to protect election records in the wake of the contentious 2020 presidential election, a fight that has left her career and life in tatters, her freedom stolen and her name smeared by a corporate press eager to paint her as a villain.
Yet, buried within the prosecution’s own words lies a stunning admission: Tina Peters may be innocent, a patriot punished simply for upholding the law.
As her appeal fights its way through a Colorado court, the real question is whether truth will prevail, or will a rigged system keep her caged?
Powe then wrote under the subhead “What Peters did – explained simply”:
Tina Peters, as Mesa County’s election official, was responsible for keeping election records safe. Federal law says she had to keep 2020 election data for 22 months. Thus, when she learned a software update would erase this data, she hired Conan Hayes, an IT expert, to watch the update and make a backup of the data.
She let him into her office to do this, which as the official in charge she was allowed to do. The prosecution said she lied about Hayes being her employee, yet their own witnesses admitted Peters had the power to decide who could be there.
Peters didn’t trick anyone, and her actions followed the law to protect election records.
But that’s not what happened. Hayes is not an “IT expert” — he’s a former pro surfer who later co-founded a clothing company and was later accused of defrauding a bank and became a star in election-denial circles. Powe doesn’t deny that Peters lied by portraying Hayes as her employee, and she also failed to mention that Hayes abused his access by posting copies of the backups to a conspiracy theory website.
Powe concluded with more melodrama:
As the Colorado sun sets over Mesa County, Tina Peters sits in a cell, her fate hanging in the balance.
A woman who courageously stood for transparency – but branded a criminal by a corrupt system.
While prosecutors’ own words betray their case, and Trump’s unyielding voice shakes the prison gates, the question remains: Will the courts now see through the fog of accusations?
Or will Peters, like so many patriots before her, pay a terrible price for daring to challenge a broken system?
The appeal moves forward, but time is running out.
For Tina Peters, it’s not just about her freedom. It’s about the truth, and whether that still matters in America today.
Bob Unruh continued his usual whitewashing of Peters in an Oct. 2 article:
Tina Peters, the embattled former county clerk in the radically left state of Colorado – run by a homosexual governor and dominated by Democrats in the legislature – who was jailed by extremists there for protecting presidential election records, has gone to social media and has gotten blunt with the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Why is the DOJ defying Trump’s demands? Get off you’re a—- and get me out!” she posted.
The attacks on her came amid the scandalous revelations about voting system insecurities in the presidential election. She was accused, among other things, of allowing a voting system password to be online.
Incidentally, Jena Griswold, Colorado’s Democrat secretary of state and a key player in the prosecution of Peters, was confirmed to have posted online hundreds of election system passwords, but she was never charged.
Peters was sent to prison for years.
But as we’ve noted, no election fraud was found in her county, and her situation is not remotely analogous to that of Griswold — an employee of Griswold’s office inadvertently posted passwords online because they were hidden within the posted document, whereas Peters gave her password to an election denier who then reposted the data on another website.
Unruh then lazily repeated claims from Powe’s article — and, like Powe, refused to tell the full story or allow any other viewpoint to be mentioned. He didn’t even mention Peters’ grammatical failure in misspelling “your.”