August 19, 2024 01:32 PM UTC

Is Tina Peters A Public Safety Risk?

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• by: Colorado Pols

As we noted last week, convicted ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters is in what can be best described as a state of wholesale denial after being found guilty one week ago today on 7 of 10 counts related to her plot to allow unauthorized conspirators access to Dominion Voting Systems equipment in a failed attempt to supply evidence that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. After initially promising to “take a day off” after last Monday’s guilty verdicts, Peters was right back on Steve Bannon’s podcast Tuesday vowing to not just appeal, but expose once and for all the truth about the 2020 elections that no one has yet uncovered:

“I mean, we’re going to continue to fight this in the law. And in the meantime, until they either kill me [Pols emphasis] or put me in prison. You know, I’m going to keep speaking out about the injustice, about what’s going on in these big multinational global corporations that are that have these vote flipping software, that is basically, is in Serbia. We’ve already shown that people in my, that I’m accused of influencing, there’s emails between them and Serbia and Serbia Dominion employees.”

Peters has made repeated reference to an unnamed entity that could be comprised of Dominion Voting Systems, the Venezuelan government, the Democratic Party, Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, or some combination thereof who are either poised to or actively trying to physically harm her. Peters’ fears in this regard have no factual basis in terms of anything ever reported to the authorities, who in fact have had to take significant precautions during the trial after Peters’ ally and funder of her legal defense Patrick Byrne threatened prosecutors with “piano wire and a blowtorch” if the charges against Peters were not dismissed. That’s in addition to another Peters ally and election conspiracy theorist Joe Oltmann, infamous for calling for the hanging of politicians on both sides of the aisle he doesn’t like.

But the threats of violence on Peters’ behalf get a little more concerning…when Peters herself is the one making them:

“I haven’t gotten to the point of shedding blood yet,” she added. “They’re going to try to send me to prison, [Pols emphasis] they’re going to try to whatever, if they want to kill me or whatever. It’s not as bad as it seems because you know you are doing something righteous.”

Peters’ sentencing for the 7 counts she was convicted of, the range for which is estimated between 7 and 22 years, is set for October 3rd. The grisly threat from Patrick Byrne against prosecutors was enough to prompt heightened security measures around the trial, and these threats to “shed blood” from Peters personally, vague though they may be, raise serious questions about the risk she may pose between now and that sentencing date.

There is no more presumption of innocence. Peters is a convicted felon talking unrepentantly about “shedding blood.”

The interest of public safety may not be able to wait until October.