Rudy's still messin' around.
Meanwhile in Colorado the governor, the Democratic governor mind you, has commuted the sentence of the Trumpist harridan who intentionally compromised the security of the 2020 presidential election in Colorado. She was convicted of four felonies by a jury of her peers but the governor decided two years in prison was sufficient. Because reasons. Some NPCs are displeased, as seen below.
'A Democratic Governor Just Failed Our Democracy in the Worst Possible Way'
Tina Peters, one of the few election deniers to actually face consequences for criminal conduct related to the 2020 election, will be a free woman in less than two weeks’ time. Rather than receiving leniency from a fellow election-denying MAGA leader, Peters’ freedom will be thanks to a Democratic politician who should know better, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis. Last week, Polis tried to quietly announce that he had commuted her nine-year prison sentence, but the news immediately caught fire. Polis is being eviscerated for his decision, which was made after years of pressure from President Donald Trump. Worse yet, Polis has singlehandedly set a dangerous precedent for other states attempting to stave off a president unafraid to bully his perceived opponents into oblivion. Plus, it sends the signal that there will be few consequences for election officials who abuse their power to support Trump’s election denialism when the United States is just six months away from a consequential midterm election cycle.
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When asked to explain why he chose to commute Peters’ prison sentence, [Governor Polis] told CNN that though he believed she held strange beliefs, “We don’t punish people in this country for having strange beliefs,” then argued that “the place to resolve those differences is by debate, by discourse, by arguing with her, with by disputing her, not for keeping her behind bars simply because of what she believes or says.”
Contrary to what Polis implied, a jury did not choose to convict Peters because of her words. They did so because of her actions, which included attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, official misconduct, and failure to comply with the secretary of state. “It is pretty clear that [Peters] did this not really out of any personal conviction that the election system was incorrect, hacked, or crooked, but the judge essentially concluded she had done so because she’s a suspicious, self-promoting charlatan,” Frank Bowman, a former federal prosecutor and pardon expert, told me. “I think it was a very bad judgment on the part of Gov. Polis to commute her sentence.”
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The judge who initially presided over her case made no mention of Peters’ speech, or that he felt she honestly believed the election lies she was spewing. Quite the opposite, the judge concluded Peters made every effort to undermine the integrity of U.S. elections and the public’s trust in our institutions. “That’s an absolutely appropriate reason to impose a lengthened sentence on this woman, and the fact that the court of appeals somehow concludes this is a violation of Peters’ First Amendment rights is really quite hard to accept. It just isn’t that,” Bowman [former federal prosecutor who specializes in pardons] said.
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[Despite his protestations, it definitely looks like Governor Polis is tugging his forelock to Trump after Trump withheld federal money from Colorado and is threatening to withhold around $1 billion more.]
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Ironically, Bowman explained that Peters’ commutation is even at odds with Polis’ own criminal justice policies, which have been in line with conservatives’ favored law-and-order approach and caused a major backlog in Colorado’s prison system.
Making Peters’ commutation even worse is the fact that Vice President J.D. Vance suggested on Tuesday that she would be eligible for the highly dubious $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” slush fund Trump’s Department of Justice just established. “The general message is that the people who tried to undercut the validity of the 2020 election are not guilty of anything. They are, in some weird, twisted way, sort of international heroes,” Bowman said. “I think Polis contributes to that narrative by issuing a commutation in this case.”
But they do insist on telling us that's how the world is. Like that had just occurred to them, or like they finally had the courage to just say it. 
