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   From: adam.schitt@dont-email.me   
      
   Companies have been fleeing Colorado for three nearly four decades now.   
      
   Cut the federal money off.   
      
   Move the Air Force hidey holes out of Colorado.   
      
   There are plenty of other more deserving states.   
      
   President Trump on Thursday re-upped his call for Colorado to free Tina   
   Peters, a state election official who was convicted of multiple felonies   
   after breaching voting equipment in the 2020 election, warning he would   
   take “harsh measures” if she is not released.   
      
   “FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured   
   by Crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot   
   supporting the governor of the State,” Trump posted on Truth Social.   
   “Let Tina Peters out of jail, RIGHT NOW.”   
      
   He continued, “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!!!”   
      
   Trump did not specify what those measures would be but has in the past   
   threatened to withhold funding from other states and jurisdictions if   
   they do not align with his policies.   
      
   Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, was found guilty by a jury in 2024   
   on seven counts, including four felonies, for helping to facilitate   
   access to the county’s voting equipment in search of voter fraud that   
   she and her allies were unable to prove following the 2020 election.   
      
   Peters, who is 69, was eventually sentenced to nine years behind bars.   
   Trump has in the past championed Peters’s cause, and in May he directed   
   the Justice Department to take action to secure her release.   
      
   Trump has for years spread the disproven claim that the 2020 election   
   was “rigged” and stolen because of widespread voter fraud.   
      
   The president has used those claims to push for an end to mail-in voting   
   and other sweeping changes to election procedures, even though experts   
   have noted there are exceedingly few instances of voter fraud involving   
   mail ballots, and those cases are caught.   
      
   Trump in March signed an executive order that would have directed states   
   to require proof of citizenship when people register to vote. He has   
   signaled he is planning to sign another order targeting mail-in voting.   
      
   But states handle the administration of elections, and any federal attempts   
   to seize control of the process would face certain legal hurdles.   
      
   https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5463191-donald-trump   
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