WorldNetDaily has long endeavored to whitewash the crimes of Tina Peters, the former Colorado official sentenced to prison for her role in leaking election data. An anonymously written Nov. 6 article continued the whitewash:
Far-left Colorado,, where its state Supreme Court bench-sitters, all Democrats, wildly tried to exclude President Trump from the 2024 election ballot, has orchestrated a years-long war against a now-former county clerk who expressed concerns about the integrity of the election in 2020 and worked to preserve records.
Long has there been the suspicion that the Democrat state’s actions against former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, now jailed on state counts, were “oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
Trump, in fact, has called for her to be freed.
Now a report at Just the News reveals the Department of Justice has asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to research paths for her to be transferred out of state custody and into a federal facility.
[…]In a trial clouded by the comments and behavior of a state judge, Peters was convicted last year on multiple counts linked to an alleged election security breach after 2020’s vote.
She was given nine years in jail, despite the fact her security “breach” was completely overshadowed by a similar “breach” committed by Democrat Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, who was found to have posted pages and pages of election systems security passwords online, and was given no punishment whatsoever.
In fact, Peters was not working to “preserve records” — she tried to concoct a conspiracy theory about election fraud in her Colorado county, and the passwords Peters gave out ended up being posted on right-wing blog. Further, 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, then taken down shortly after the incident was discovered. So, no, they’re not the same.
The anonymous writer — who sounds a lot like Bob Unruh — went on to play whataboutism regarding allegedly similar crimes in Colorado, adding, “The judge in Peters’ case, Matthew Barrett, also made extra-judicial comments such as ‘you are a charlatan.'” It was not explained how such remarks are “extra-judicial,” let alone inaccurate.
Speaking of Unruh, he used a Dec. 4 article to proclaim:
President Donald Trump has labeled the far-left governor of Colorado, homosexual Jared Polis, a “SLEAZEBAG” for keeping an “elderly woman” in prison.
Trump’s comments targeted the case of Tina Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, “who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, cheating on Elections.”
In fact, the leftist court system in Colorado, which is run entirely by Democrats in the executive branch, through the Democrat-majority legislature and into the all-Democrat state supreme Court, which is so far left its members unsuccessfully tried to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, convicted Peters of nine counts for her acts of trying to preserve records from the 2020 vote.
Earth to Unruh: Peters was not trying to “preserve records” — she was manufacturing an election fraud conspiracy theory, even though no vote discrepancies were found in her county. Unruh also refused to explain why he considers Polis’ sexual orientation so important that he put it in the opening of his screed.
Unruh gleefully announced in a Dec. 12 article:
President Donald Trump has delivered to imprisoned Colorado elections official Tina Peters a “full Pardon tor her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election.’
His action comes just days after he labeled homosexual Colorado Gov. Jared Polis a “sleazebag” for keeping Peters under lock and key.
Peters is the former Mesa County clerk, who, Trump said, “was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, cheating on Elections.”
[…]“She was preserving Election Records, which she was obligated to do under Federal Law. She has now served more than one year in jail, and has eight years to go. On top of everything else, she is a cancer ‘survivor.’ This lightweight Governor, who has allowed his State to go to hell (Tren de Aragua, anyone?), should be ashamed of himself. FREE TINA!”
If Peters really was “preserving Election Records,” she would not be in prison. But that’s not what she was doing. Unruh once again whined:
It was District Judge Matthew Barrett who had claimed, while sentencing Peters to years in prison, she “abused” her position.
“I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen,” Barrett ranted in extra-judicial comments at the time. “You are no hero. You abused your position, and you’re a charlatan.”
Again, Unruh failed to explain why they judge’s remarks were inaccurate or “extra-judicial.”
But there’s one big issue here: Trump can only pardon federal crimes, not state crimes, and Peters remains in the state court system — hence the efforts to move her case to federal court. Thus, a Dec. 26 article by Unruh:
A new court filing is arguing that the state of Colorado needs to recognize a full pardon issued by President Donald Trump for Republican former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted in the Democrat-run state in a court system which has only Democrats on its highest bench of preserving records from the conflicted 2020 presidential race.
“There is no question that the Pardon forgave federal offenses,” the motion filed on behalf of Peters explains. “However, the Pardon also forgave Colorado state court convictions for actions Clerk Peters ‘may have committed or taken part in related to election integrity and security’ during the applicable time period.”
Lawyers filed the motion in her case seeking for her to be released from prison while an appellate court recognizes the pardon issued by Trump.
Trump has, in fact, pardoned her from any federal crime, but Democrats in Colorado argue her convictions were under state laws, so Trump’s pardon doesn’t count.
Unruh then served up more whitewashing of Peters’ crimes:
She was convicted of official misconduct, conspiracy and influencing a public service after she allowed access to voting equipment in order to preserve official records because she suspected 2020 election fraud.
In fact, Peters 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, something Unruh does not dispute. He continued:
Colorado’s Democrats who run the governor’s office, legislature and state Supreme Court claim the federal government has no jurisdictions over disputes involving national elections.
Colorado Democrat party [sic] spokesman Shad Murib said the president’s pardon was “meaningless.”
While that dispute remains to be resolved, the president’s administration already has launched investigations into various activities in Colorado that include the idea that the federal government could withhold funding from the leftist enclave.
Unruh didn’t explain why he gave an inaccurate name to the Colorado Democratic Party when using the correct name would have worked just as well.