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'Wow!' Jake Tapper astounded by Tina Peters' first interview after being freed from prison

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CNN's Jake Tapper was visibly taken aback by new comments made by election denier and disgraced county clerk Tina Peters after she was released from prison on Monday. Peters appeared on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast after her release, where she claimed that she was sent to jail for exposing a Democratic plot to steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Her comments echoed some of the claims she made in court during her case, in which the judge described her as a "charlatan" who was abusing her position of authority to help the Trump campaign in its efforts to overturn the election results. "Wow!" Tapper said on his show, "The Lead," as he played a short clip of Peters on Bannon's show. "A lot of untruthful statements there."Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for her efforts to help the Trump campaign following the 2020 election. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted her sentence last month, claiming that it was too harsh for a first-time offender.The Democratic Party of Colorado censured Polis for granting Peters clemency. Peters's comments also outraged several political analysts and observers. "Fresh out of prison, Tina Peters is spending her first hours back in front of the camera doing what she does best: pushing the same election lies that got her convicted in the first place," Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO) posted on X. "Nice work by Jared Polis," Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of the MeidasTouch Network, posted on X. "I'm sorry, but @jaredpolis needs to resign. He just handed MAGA their victimhood narrative on a silver platter and poured gasoline on the election-lies dumpster fire. Everyone saw this coming, and he granted Peters clemency anyway," Joshua Reed Eakle, a liberal political communications expert, posted on X.

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Election Denier Tina Peters Asks Trump for a Job After She Walks Free

Tina Peters—the Trump-supporting, election-denying former Colorado county election clerk found guilty of tampering with voting machines—is now free.Peters was freed from prison on Monday after Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis granted her clemency and reduced her sentence just weeks earlier. Peters was originally sentenced to nine years in prison for conspiring to publicize the voting machine records in Mesa County, turning all the cameras off while allowing fellow election denier Conan Hayes to copy, photograph, and download information in an effort to prove President Trump’s absurd claims of election fraud in 2020. Polis’s decision to cut short her sentence angered his local party, even leading them to censure him. Now, he claims that he “concluded that her sentence was simply too long.” After the backlash, he appeared on a party Zoom call with black tape over his mouth. His fellow Colorado Democrats weren’t amused then, and certainly aren’t now. “The Governor’s grant of clemency to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the people of Colorado, and election officials across the country,” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said in a statement. “It sends a dangerous message about accountability for those who would attack elections. Peters’ release also will embolden the election denial movement; since the grant of clemency, she has continued to spread election falsehoods and conspiracies.”Peters has become something of a political prisoner for those on the MAGA right, especially those in the deepest depths of QAnon. Trump had been pressuring Polis to release Peters for months, and Vice President JD Vance recently suggested that Peters should get a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” for those who felt wronged or targeted by the Biden administration. Meanwhile, the first thing Peters did upon her release on Monday was go on Steve Bannon’s podcast, double down on her claims of election fraud, and ask Trump for a job. NEW: Tina Peters, newly freed by Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), begins her MAGA media tour by telling Steve Bannon that Democrats are cheating on elections and she was imprisoned as retribution for exposing voting machines that flip votes. pic.twitter.com/KCC9q22fOZ— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) June 1, 2026“I would like for President Trump—I’d like to be more involved in prison reform,” Peters said, if “that’s the way the Lord leads me.”This story has been updated.

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Election denier Tina Peters asks Trump for job hours after being released from prison

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Election denier Tina Peters asks Trump for job hours after being released from prison

Tina Peters walked out of a Colorado prison Monday morning and headed for Steve Bannon's War Room — where the convicted election denier told the MAGA faithful she wants a job in the Trump administration."I would like for President Trump — I'd like to be more involved in prison reform," Peters said on the podcast, adding she'd pursue it "if that's the way the Lord leads me."Peters, 70, was released Monday from La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo after serving less than a quarter of her nine-year sentence for election interference. Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence to four and a half years last month following a sustained pressure campaign by President Donald Trump.Peters was convicted in 2024 on four felony and three misdemeanor counts after she snuck an unauthorized operative affiliated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell into her Mesa County elections office to copy Dominion Voting Systems equipment during a 2021 software update.On Bannon's show, Peters described deteriorating health behind bars — acid reflux, blood sugar problems from a diet of salt and sugar — and raised concerns about the use of Suboxone in women's prisons, claiming inmates are put on the drug and can't get off."There's no way to rehabilitate them with the way the prisons are run currently," she said.But prison reform wasn't her only ambition. Peters made it clear she has no intention of abandoning her election-conspiracy crusade, citing recent and upcoming races — including New York City mayoral winner Zohran Mamdani and Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) — as evidence that Democrats cannot be trusted at the ballot box."I know that the Democrats are going to cheat," she said, "and no one's really addressing the problem."The problem, in Peters' telling, remains the same one that landed her in prison.

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Democrats are fighting over which state goes first in 2028. It's already getting ugly

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