Donald J.Trump hosts Tina Peters at White House after Colorado prison release
The former Mesa County clerk visited the president after serving two years of a nine-year sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines.
The former Mesa County clerk visited the president after serving two years of a nine-year sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines.
WHITE HOUSE — Donald J.Trump hosted former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters at the White House for lunch after her release from prison on June 30, 2026 at 3:30 PM EST.
Here is the full post (see truthsocial): ““FREE TINA!” became the rallying cry of the Republican Party over the past two years. Tina Peters just came to the White House to thank me for getting her released from prison in Colorado. She was put there because she found Election Fraud, but instead of arresting the people that committed the Fraud, they arrested her! They gave her nine years in jail, and she served two, much time in solitary confinement along with hardened criminals and murderers, and then I got the Republican Party into gear, and she was released. Tina is 70-years-old, suffered a major bout with cancer, but hopefully is now cancer free. What she went through should never happen to anyone again. Just think of it, she caught the Democrats cheating, and they put her in jail for Voter Fraud. They didn’t want her out there speaking to the Media. She knows that the Voting Machines are RIGGED, that the Mail In Ballots are a DISASTER, and that our Elections are very Dangerous and Corrupt at a time when, with the Threat of Communism, we must be very wise and careful! It was an Honor to have lunch with her. I was fortunate, my Vote in 2024 was TOO BIG TO RIG, but they tried. There wasn’t a thing they could do about it, but not everyone is in that position. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Donald J.Trump”
Trump claimed he pressured the Republican Party to secure Peters’ release and called her imprisonment unjust. He said Peters, 70, had survived cancer during her time behind bars and spent portions of her sentence in solitary confinement.
Peters served as the elected clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. A jury convicted her on seven counts in 2024, including attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation and official misconduct (see cbsnews.com). Prosecutors alleged that Peters and others devised a scheme in 2021 to allow an unauthorized person to access Mesa County voting machines, and images from the equipment later appeared online (see cbsnews.com).
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters’ sentence in May 2026, reducing it to four years and four-and-a-half months including time served (see cbsnews.com). Polis told reporters he believed the original nine-year sentence was “very unusual for a first-time nonviolent offender” and cited an appellate court ruling that found the sentencing judge placed too much weight on Peters’ beliefs about election fraud, which constitute protected speech (see cbsnews.com).
Peters apologized in a statement at the time of her release. “I made mistakes” and “misled the Secretary of State when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment,” she said. “That was wrong” (see cbsnews.com).
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold condemned the commutation, calling it a “gross injustice to our elections, election workers and democracy” (see cbsnews.com). Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser called the decision “mind-boggling and wrong as a matter of basic justice” (see cbsnews.com).
Trump used the post to repeat his claims that voting machines are manipulated and that mail-in ballots pose a threat to election security. He said his 2024 victory margin was “too big to rig” but warned that other candidates remain vulnerable. Trump has promoted claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, assertions that courts and election officials have rejected (see pbs.org).
In the last 30 days, 139 of 556 Trump posts on Truth Social addressed the topic of elections.
Source: Zenger real-time database of all Truth Social posts.
Note: Chart generated on June 30, 2026 at 2:39 PM EST
Source: Zenger analysis
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