District Judge Matthew Barrett told former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters — after earlier sparring with her for continuing to press discredited claims about rigged voting machines — that she never took her job seriously.
“I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You’re as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen,” Barrett told her in handing down the sentence. “You are no hero. You abused your position and you’re a charlatan.”
Jurors found Peters guilty in August for allowing a man to misuse a security card to access to the Mesa County election system and for being deceptive about that person’s identity.
The man was affiliated with My Pillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a prominent promoter of false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from former President Donald Trump.
Seems like it always comes back to the old MyPillow crackhead, doesn’t it?
UPDATE: I hadn’t seen this video until just now, and while it’s from a couple of years ago, it’s still so much fun to watch, and I know you’ll get a kick out of it. Here’s Miss Tina being arrested back in 2022:
Tina Peters is 69 years old now, so with nine years in prison coming up, it’s very possible she could die behind bars, which would be so funny. Fingers crossed…
