Trump DOJ probes state's entire prison system in new plot to free jailed MAGA acolyte

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

December 9, 2025 4:06PM ET


President Donald Trump's Justice Department has come up with a new way to try to pressure the state of Colorado to release Tina Peters, a MAGA-favoring former elections clerk who went to prison for tampering with election equipment to try to prove Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories.

According to The New Republic, "Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division are pretending to care about prisoners’ human rights in an apparent effort to get conspiracy theorist, former state official, and convicted 2020 election fraudster Tina Peters out of a Colorado jail."

Dhillon announced on X, “Under my direction, @CivilRights has opened an investigation into the entire Colorado prison system following multiple reports of unconstitutional and legally insufficient carceral conditions. Prisoners have civil rights.” The letter doesn't specifically mention Peters, simply attacking the Colorado prison system for “failing to provide adequate medical care and safe sanitary physical conditions of confinement,” and potentially “housing biological males in units designated for females.”

But both supporters and detractors of the administration immediately recognized this as a ploy to create a pretext for Peters' release. The Bulwark's Will Sommer wrote, “New Trump pressure on Colorado to release election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters—who Trump can’t pardon because she’s imprisoned on state charges.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/doj-tina-peters/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Oh, like private prisons could do better?

And . . . . ALL the prisons in Colorado?

If Tina Peters were released, wouldn't other prisoners in a similarly vulnerable state have to be released?

Unless the WH can prove Tina Peters' prison is equivalent to the Bastille or Devil's Island, I doubt this is going anywhere.

[brer cat]

2. "Prisoners have civil rights" coming from republicans

is laughable. Maybe they should take a look at CECOT if they are so concerned about civil rights.

[orangecrush]

4. This

[Solly Mack]

6. Exactly.

[Bengus81]

3. Those prisoners at Alligator Alcatraz had civil rights?

BTW,where are all of them if you Republicans care so much?

[angrychair]

5. It's still in operation

There are hundreds and hundreds of prisoners still there.
Though a judge ordered it closed another judge stayed that ruling while they appeal.

[Mawspam2]

7. Perhaps Tina Peters needs to Epstein herself.

Ask Bill Barr how it's done.

[travelingthrulife]

8. Is he running out of flying monkeys?

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

9. Trump is a convict breaking other convicts out of jail. More criminal behavior by him and his cabal.