60 Minutes on why Colorado released Tina Peters


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Posted by russsmith on October 29, 2026 at 17:59:32

They are still doing some real stories and this one is scathing. Trump threatened severe measures if Colorado didn't release Tina Peters after she was jailed for violating all sorts of election laws.

After a huge fire, Trumps admin denied federal aid. He threatened to cut federal aid to poor people in Colorado, he took away contracts. Eventually the Governor, who quite frankly probably got paid too, just eventually decided it was better for the state to let Peters out than to have Trump continue to intentionally go after the state.

In the story even Republicans call out Trump for lying about it.

Polis says he thought her sentence was too long, even Republicans in Colorado said he bent the knee to Trump. Polis called her a non violent, elderly, first offender. He also commuted her sentence while the court was literally in the process of reconsidering her sentence. So if he hadn't acted her sentence might have been reduced. Note, the judge in the case is shown in court telling Peters she has been the single worst defendant he's ever had in court, refused to take any accountability, wouldn't apologize for what she did and showed absolutely no remorse. And Polis still pardoned her.

And since Colorado released her, Trump has stopped targeting Colorado proving what happened




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