By Michael Woyton
The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist is trying — unsuccessfully — to pull a fast one.
In a social media post Thursday, Trump wrote that he granted Tina Peters a full pardon “for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”
Peters, as you will recall, was sentenced to prison for nine years in October 2024 on state charges of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and failing to comply with requirements of the secretary of state.
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She was a county clerk in Colorado who provided voting system access to a Mike “Pillowman” Lindell-affiliated expert to try to prove the false claim that Trump lost the 2020 presidential election because of ballot fraud.
The key words about Peters is that she was convicted of “state charges,” not federal charges.
As much as he thinks he is already a monarch with king-like powers the Mar-a-Lago makeup man is not endowed with the ability to pardon someone who has not been convicted of federal charges. It’s in Article II of the Constitution.
Colorado’s Gov. Jared Polis posted on social media that it was a matter for the courts to decide, but added “No President has jurisdiction over state law nor the power to pardon a person for state convictions.”
Colorado Attorney General Philip J. Weiser called Trump’s attempt to pardon Peters “a lawless act” and “an act of intimidation.”
“It has no basis in American law,” he said.
Frankly, if it’s litigated, it would be a total waste of taxpayer money — unless of course the corrupt Supreme Court decides it has the power to rewrite the Constitution.
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This is the way these people need to be confronted and called out for the cruelty they are blithely allowing to happen.
DHS Sec. Kristi Noem was confronted in a congressional hearing Thursday by Rep. Seth Magaziner, D-Rhode Island, with a Purple Heart recipient who had been deported earlier this year.
The congressman asked Noem how many veterans she’s deported and, of course, she lied, saying veterans are not deported.
Noem has to go, and she needs to take ICE with her.
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And if one Trump official getting humiliated in public is good, how about two — on the same day?
Longtime FBI agent Michael Glasheen had more than a bit of trouble answering questions from Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, in front of the House Homeland Security Committee hearing Thursday.
Thompson quizzed Glasheen about where in the United States the so-called “domestic terrorist” group antifa is headquartered.
The FBI agent finally managed to say something, which was “We are building out the infrastructure right now.”
Unsurprisingly, when I first watched this video, I said the same thing Thompson then said:
“So what does that mean?”
The back and forth didn’t get any better from that point on.
I’d feel sorry for Agent Glasheen if it wasn’t so obvious that he allowed himself to be set up so easily.
This exchange might very well end up being the first line of his obituary.
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