Colorado could be in hot water with feds for punishing election official
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A conservative group is asking the federal government to criminally investigate Colorado officials for throwing 2020 election skeptic Tina Peters in prison. The state targeted the former […]
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.
The speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, told the Trump administration on Sunday that Hezbollah is ready for a full and immediate ceasefire with Israel and pledged to guarantee its implementation, Berri's top adviser Ali Hamdan told Axios. Why it matters: The fighting in Lebanon is escalating and threatening to derail the chances of a deal to end the war in Iran, particularly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu now threatening to strike Beirut.Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday that Iran's negotiating team was suspending its exchange of messages with the U.S., through the mediators, in protest of Israel's actions in Lebanon.Zoom in: Berri is one of the most powerful Shia politicians in Lebanon and has close links to Hezbollah, though U.S. and Israeli officials question whether he can actually guarantee Hezbollah's compliance.If Hezbollah is indeed ready for a full ceasefire, such a truce would leave the Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon in place for now while potentially disconnecting the Lebanese arena from the war with Iran.According to a source with knowledge, though, U.S. officials told Berri they don't think Netanyahu would agree.An Israeli official confirmed Hezbollah expressed readiness for a full ceasefire without demanding an immediate Israeli withdrawal. The State Department didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.What he's saying: "I called the U.S. ambassador to Beirut, Michel Issa, on Sunday and told him on behalf of Speaker Berri that Hezbollah will be ready to totally commit to a comprehensive ceasefire and we are ready to guarantee it," Hamdan told Axios. Hamdan confirmed that the Trump administration proposed a partial ceasefire over the weekend which would require Hezbollah to stop striking northern Israel in return for Israel committing not to strike Beirut, as Axios reported.But he pushed back on a U.S. official's characterization of Berri's response as "evasive and disappointing."Friction point: "The proposal we received was no Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel and that in return Israel will not bomb Beirut and then gradually the ceasefire will expand to other areas," Hamdan said. "Speaker Berri's reply was, "Why a partial ceasefire? Let's have a full ceasefire."Berri proposed a ceasefire on the ground, air and sea under which Israel would also commit to stop demolishing houses in southern Lebanon. Hamdan claimed Berri has a channel of communication with Hezbollah that allows him to exchange messages with the group's leader, Naeem Qassem, who is in hiding."We are sure Hezbollah will commit to a total ceasefire. We think it will be more productive. We know time is running out," Hamdan said. State of play: The U.S. has urged Israel against striking Beirut for several weeks as part of a broader deescalation push, but a U.S. official hinted on Sunday that position could soften. "The U.S. does not expect Israel to absorb ongoing attacks on its civilians by a terrorist organization," the official told Axios.On Monday, Netanyahu issued a joint statement with Defense Minister Israel Katz threatening to bomb Hezbollah targets in the Dahieh District of Beirut "following repeated violations of the ceasefire" by the Shia militia. They said the district housed Hezbollah's "terrorist headquarters," which could no longer "remain off-limits." The Israel Defense Forces later issued a statement in Arabic urging "all residents of the Dahieh District in Beirut to relocate for their safety.""Should Hezbollah continue to fire toward our cities and communities, the IDF will respond by striking terrorist targets in Dahieh," the statement said.What to watch: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued his own warning on X that Israel's actions in Lebanon were a violation of the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, and the U.S. and Israel would bear "the consequences of any violation."Shortly after Araghchi's statement, Tasnim quoted Iranian officials stressing no talks with the U.S. will take place until Israel stops its attacks in Lebanon.The Tasnim report also said Iran and its "Axis of Resistance" are prepared to retaliate in the Strait of Hormuz "and activate other fronts," including the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the Red Sea.
A former senior Trump administration official issued President Donald Trump and those around him an ominous warning on Monday about what they said were “historic consequences” they’ve yet to face, but undoubtedly will – and soon.That former official was Miles Taylor, a security expert who served as a Homeland Security senior advisor in the first Trump administration, and his warning was about the Trump administration’s ongoing operation in the Caribbean targeting suspected drug traffickers, an operation that critics have called illegal and as of Monday has killed 205 people.“More than 200 people have now been killed in Trump’s campaign against ‘drug boats’ since it began in early September,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on his Substack Monday. “I can tell you from firsthand experience that all of them could have been arrested instead. In other words, the murders are a choice – and one that will have historic consequences.”As Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran continues to dominate news headlines, the administration has simultaneously begun ramping up its attacks on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean, and without providing evidence to the public proving that those killed were drug traffickers.And, while the Trump administration has yet to face any legal consequences for what even Republican lawmakers have described as “extrajudicial killings,” Taylor warned that consequences were, in fact, coming, and soon enough that “the people who carried this out should be calling their lawyers.”“First, Democrats are very likely to retake at least one chamber of Congress. The day they do, they get subpoena power, and the first thing a serious oversight committee will do is start pulling the thread on the obvious crimes committed by the Trump administration. This boat-strike campaign is top of the list,” Taylor wrote.“Second, congressional investigators will ask the only questions that matter in any abuse-of-power inquiry: who knew, and when did they know it? They will go looking for the paper trail, and they will undoubtedly find it.”
Former chair Jerome Powell on Sunday warned against political pressure on the Federal Reserve, saying that the central bank “has been undergoing a stress test.” “If any administration finds a way to remove Fed officials over policy differences, then future administrations will do so as well. The public would lose faith that the central bank…
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Sunday warned against politicizing the central bank, amid concerns President Donald Trump is undermining the institution’s prized independence. Powell’s speech while accepting the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award in Boston came after he suggested that the Justice Department’s investigation into concerns he lied or misrepresented the […]
It has been a long, strange trip-and a bit of headache for Democrats-leading up to Tuesday's gubernatorial primary to choose a successor to California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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