DOJ Moves to Transfer Tina Peters to Federal Custody After Trump’s Call for Release
The Justice Department has asked the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to explore transferring former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from a Colorado state prison to a federal facility, following her 2024 conviction and after President Donald Trump’s public calls for her release.
According to internal communications obtained by Just the News, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, led by Todd Blanche, the second-in-command to Attorney General Pam Bondi, sent an email Wednesday evening to BOP Director William Marshall directing him to evaluate options for Peters’s transfer.
“At the request of the Deputy Attorney General, please have the Bureau of Prisons explore any and all avenues within BOP’s authority to seek and request the transfer of Ms. Tina Peters from the Colorado Department of Corrections to a federal BOP facility,” the DOJ email stated. “We ask that BOP send out a request to Colorado as soon as possible and begin preparations for any possible transfer into federal custody.”
Peters was convicted in August 2024 on seven charges — including four felonies and three misdemeanors — linked to an election security breach following the 2020 election. She was acquitted on three other counts and sentenced to nine years in prison that October.
In August, Trump posted on Truth Social:
“FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting governor of the State. Let Tina Peters out of jail RIGHT NOW. She did nothing wrong, except catching the Democrats cheat in the Election. She is an old woman, and very sick. If she is not released, I am going to take harsh measures!!!”
During sentencing, Colorado Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters, “You are no hero. You are a charlatan.”
Earlier this year, Trump’s executive order on “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government” and a subsequent DOJ memo from Attorney General Bondi were both applied to Peters’s case.
Issued on Inauguration Day, Trump’s order declared:
“The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community… These actions appear oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
Bondi followed with a Department-wide memo titled “Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the Department of Justice” in early February. The directive established a “Weaponization Working Group” to review the conduct of all U.S. enforcement agencies over the past four years.
Bondi wrote that the group’s purpose was to
“identify instances where a department’s or agency’s conduct appears to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental objectives.”
The DOJ cited both Trump’s executive order and Bondi’s memo when it sought to intervene in the Colorado prosecution of Peters.
Peters has since appealed her conviction and in February filed a federal writ of habeas corpus. In March, Yaakov Roth, then acting assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Division, filed a statement of interest in her case citing Trump’s and Bondi’s directives.
“Ms. Peters is currently incarcerated while pursuing a direct appeal of her underlying nonviolent convictions and combined nine-year sentence,” the DOJ wrote. “The Application explains that Ms. Peters suffers from serious health issues and that, while incarcerated, her physical and mental health have deteriorated. Reasonable concerns have been raised about various aspects of Ms. Peters’ case.”
The DOJ added that these concerns “warrant — at the very least — prompt and careful consideration by this Court.”
Roth further stated that, in keeping with Trump’s order, the DOJ’s review of politically motivated prosecutions “will include an evaluation of the State of Colorado’s prosecution of Ms. Peters and whether that case was, as the President’s order phrases it, ‘oriented more toward inflicting political pain than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives.’”
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