(Washington) Donald Trump, who has recently multiplied the attacks on the American electoral system, called on Thursday to release a local colorado official, convicted of embezzlement in the 2020 presidential election.
“Release Tina Peters, a courageous and innocent patriot,” wrote the American president on his social social network, threatening to take “severe measures” if he was not listened to.
Tina Peters, an elected representative of the County of Mesa in charge of various administrative tasks, including the supervision of the elections, was sentenced in October 2024 to nine years’ imprisonment for having left a supporter of Donald Trump access to confidential data on the 2020 election, according to CBS.
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Tina Peters
This man sought to prove the existence of fraud in the presidential election won by the Democrat Joe Biden, a victory that the current president refuses to date to recognize, although the validity of the 2020 election has been confirmed by several court decisions.
This 79-year-old billionaire follows a series of attacks on the electoral system in the United States.
On Monday, the American president had hammered wanting to “get rid of the voting by correspondence”, one of his main fixed ideas.
The republican leader announced that he would sign a decree to “help bring honesty in the (parliamentarian) elections of mid-term”, which will take place in November 2026, without giving details on the content of the text.
At the end of March, he had already signed a decree aimed at restricting correspondence voting and imposing reinforced controls on the US states on the electoral lists.
In the United States, the organization of the elections is of the prerogative of the States, with a certain supervision by the Congress, but Donald Trump disputes this distribution of skills.
The American president also often evokes the possibility of presenting himself again in November 2028, although the constitution prohibits carrying out a third term, without anyone knowing if it is a real project or provocation.
