• Former Mesa County, Colorado, clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison for crimes related to a breach of her county’s voting system.
  • Peters espoused the false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to ballot fraud.
  • She was accused of allowing access to the voting system to an expert affiliated with My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a leading proponent of the Trump election conspiracy theory.

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    The funny part is, that she believes deep down, if trump wins the election, he will pardon her 😂😂

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      He can’t, they’re state charges not federal…she fuuuked and deservedly so. Of course unless Trump does win and he threatens the state AG I wouldn’t put it past him ffs. VOTE BLUE!

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    Everything Trump cultists accuse people of is just a confession at this point. There is no point in even entertaining these people. I hope she enjoys her stay in prison.

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      At this point, if something upsets them, it might be safer to assume it’s either a good thing or a benign one that doesn’t really affect anyone (but their “solution” sure will) than it being an actual problem.

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    You fucking wacko leftists just. Wont. Stop. Until every single human being who disagrees with you in any way is in jail. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

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      Nope. She LITERALLY broke the law and was found guilty. I can’t sum it up any better than the judge.

      I would support this same course of action for ANYONE who does what she did (and continued to do while never once having any proof).

      She is harmful to society and is where she belongs.

      The only thing mental here is the complete loyalty some show towards any political figure. Both sides. You obviously suffer from this as your post shows complete disregard for facts and critical thinking. Best of luck with that.

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      You crazy MAGA traitors just. Wont. Stop. Breaking the law.

      Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.

      Conservatism is a mental disorder.

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      Get a clue moron, maybe if people stopped being literal cartoon villains and trying to commit treason we’d stop sending them to jail.

    • UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world
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      How many downvotes does it take for someone to realize they don’t belong somewhere?

      Let me know when you find out, cause you’ve been on a fucking roll. It’s almost like people don’t like you.

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      You fucking true patriots just. Wont. Stop. Until every single traitorous criminal is in jail. Conservatism is a mental disorder.

      There. Fixed it for you

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      This is non-partisan - if a liberal performed these crimes they’d be tried the same, and liberals would support it.

      The only mental disorder here is your victim complex.

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    It was actually pretty interesting to listen to the sentencing. It’s about 20 minutes. The judge goes through all of the options at his disposal and discusses his the rationale that he used to arrive at a prison sentence.

    He had the option of sentencing her to parole, community service, or incarceration. He then described her as unrepentant, the most defiant defendant the court has ever seen, and a continuing danger to society. He also discussed that he considers how a sentence will act as deterrent for the defendant directly (not at all in this case) and for others who might seek to commit similar crimes as well as punishment. He determined that Mrs Peters would immediately go commit the same crimes again given the opportunity, that community deterrence is important, and that punishment was warranted.

    He also went through her mitigating circumstances. He compared her circumstances to the typical defendant that his court sees and characterized her as extremely privileged with few mitigating circumstances and many aggravating ones. He said that she simply sought power, prestige, and wealth without a care for who she harmed. He characterized her as an unrepentant liar and a fraud who lied every chance she got including about why she kicked a police officer while on video.

    Based on his rationale, he decided that removing Tina Peter’s from the community was in the best interests of the community.

    TL/DR The judge didn’t like Mrs Peters very much.

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    On the one hand, I’m glad she’s going to jail. On the other, I’m annoyed ASF that her main conspirator, the mango Mussolini is still not only walking free, but running for fucking president again.

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      longer version that includes defense and prosecution arguments as well has her bananas defense of her conduct.

      Starting at 42:31 and going for about 2 minutes is a really stark example of how conspiracy theorists just do not care about the truth and will ignore evidence no matter how obvious.

      Starting at around 1:45:12 and going on for about 2 minutes is a really good example of what not to do if you are speaking to a judge at your own sentencing hearing.

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        Oh I’m not ashamed at all. Inject the schadenfreude directly into my bloodstream.

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    She should be glad that the cops didn’t decide to give her the Floyd treatment since she was at least resisting arrest, possibly assaulting the officer. They didn’t even make her get down on the ground or tase her.

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    So many prison sentences in his wake- none of them are his.

    The hallmark of a truly innocent man.

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    The judge really have her hell, it’s worth reading. Another article by The Guardian had this gem:

    “She also told the judge she cannot go to prison because she needs to sleep on a magnetic mattress, which she has been using since 1995 to help with health conditions such as chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.”