Tina Peters, the 70-year-old former Mesa County Clerk who was sentenced to nine years in prison for exposing what she called “anomalies” in Colorado’s 2020 election systems, has reportedly been violently assaulted multiple times in prison — and her attorney is now calling for direct intervention from President Donald Trump.
Attorney Peter Ticktin issued a blistering letter to the White House over the weekend, accusing prison officials of knowingly placing Peters in harm’s way, and arguing that the Trump administration has the Constitutional authority to pardon her immediately, despite the charges being filed at the state level.
“Tina Peters is a political prisoner,” Ticktin told PatriotWire in an exclusive statement. “She was thrown in jail for standing up for election integrity, and now they’re letting inmates beat her within an inch of her life. This isn’t justice — this is retribution.”
According to Ticktin’s letter, Peters has been attacked on three separate occasions in her current Colorado prison unit. The assaults reportedly occurred in areas with limited surveillance, forcing guards to physically pull attackers off her. Months earlier, Peters had allegedly received death threats from inmates in another unit, prompting her temporary relocation.
“Her life was threatened by a group of inmates who said they would stab her and kill her,” Ticktin wrote. “The threats were reported to both the FBI and DOJ. Yet nothing meaningful was done.”
Despite six formal requests, Peters has repeatedly been denied transfer to a ‘safe unit’—a section of the prison reserved for low-risk inmates seeking protection from violence. No official explanation has been provided.
Peters’ case has ignited fierce debate over presidential pardon authority. While she was convicted on state charges related to the Mesa County election systems breach, her attorney argues that President Trump, now in his second term, still has the legal power to pardon her.
“The idea that the President of the United States can’t protect citizens unjustly imprisoned by rogue state actors is nonsense,” Ticktin said. “We are one nation under God — not fifty different kingdoms. The Founders would be appalled by what’s happening.”
In the letter, Ticktin challenges the legal consensus that federal pardons can’t apply to state convictions, arguing that “the United States” in the Constitution refers to the nation as a whole, not just the federal system.
President Trump has been one of Peters’ loudest defenders since her arrest in 2023, calling her conviction part of a larger “Communist-style crackdown on patriots” by the Radical Left.
“Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment,” Trump posted on Truth Social in May. “This is a Communist persecution by the Radical Left Democrats to cover up their Election crimes and misdeeds in 2020.”
Trump also referenced Peters’ Gold Star status — her son, a Marine Corps pilot, was killed during a training exercise in 2017.
“The same Democrat Party that flies to El Salvador to try to free MS-13 terrorists is cruelly imprisoning a grandmother whose heroic son died for America,” he added. “Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American.”
Peters was convicted in 2024 for allegedly orchestrating a breach of Colorado’s election machines during a “trusted build” process following the 2020 presidential election. She maintained the act was part of a legal attempt to preserve data and ensure transparency in the wake of what she — and millions of Americans — believe was a rigged election.
Though Peters filed a federal lawsuit earlier this year claiming her imprisonment violated her First Amendment rights, Judge Scott Varholak rejected the claim in November.
Colorado’s Democrat Governor Jared Polis has publicly vowed not to pardon Peters or participate in any deal to secure her release. “She must be held accountable,” he said last month, brushing aside questions about rising political pressurefrom Washington.
The Biden-appointed media continues to describe Peters as an “election denier,” but supporters across the country see something very different: a woman paying the ultimate price for telling the truth.
“They don’t want Tina Peters free,” said grassroots activist Susan McLean at a pro-Peters rally in Grand Junction last month. “They want her broken. Because if she walks out of that cell, she’ll still be telling the truth — and they can’t have that.”
Legal scholars remain divided, but a growing coalition of conservative lawyers and constitutionalists is pushing President Trump to issue a full pardon for Peters — and daring the courts to stop him.
“This isn’t just about Tina,” Ticktin concluded. “This is about whether any American can challenge corruption without being destroyed.”
With tensions rising and the 2026 midterms on the horizon, Peters’ fate could soon become a flashpoint in the battle over who controls the narrative of 2020 — and whether those who questioned it will be vindicated or vanished.
SOURCE LINK: Fox News Digital – Dec. 10, 2025
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All good Americans who believe in the Constitution, the founding fathers drew up, want Trump supporters silenced. He has betrayed everything this nation stans for and that made us great. It would seem the inmates are smarter than those who voted for that con man!!!! Prof. Larry Schlatter
So you want her murdered in prison???
You’re a goof
This is unacceptable that a 70 year old inmate, or any inmate, is being repeatedly assaulted.
DJT MUST INTERVENE BE SHE’S KILLED (FOR EXPOSING THE TRUTH).