Donald
Trump
is
thinking
outside
the
box.
He
wasn’t
elected
because
of
his
color-inside-the-laws,
paint-by-Constitution
thinking.
MAGA
wants
results!
Or
at
least
a
big
MISSION
ACCOMPLISHED
sign,
which
is
functionally
the
same
thing
when
you
get
your
news
from
social
media.
Trump’s
current
mission
is
to
rescue
Tina
Peters,
the
former
election
clerk
for
Mesa
County,
Colorado
and
current
guest
of
the
La
Vista
Correctional
Facility
in
Pueblo.
In
2020,
Trump’s
margin
of
victory
in
Mesa
was
28
percent.
But
Peters
became
convinced
that
there
were
ghosts
in
the
Dominion
Machines
and
set
out
to
prove
it.
That
effort
included:
giving
her
voting
machine
password
to
associates
of
the
pillow
weirdo
Mike
Lindell;
stealing
a
government
ID
for
an
associate
of
Overstock
weirdo
Patrick
Byrne;
sneaking
said
associate
in
and
allowing
him
to
digitally
image
the
Dominion
machines;
passing
off
the
associate
as
a
government
employee
so
he
could
attend
a
confidential
software
update
with
Dominion
staff;
recording
a
court
hearing
on
her
iPad;
and
kicking
a
cop
in
a
bagel
shop
when
he
came
to
seize
the
device.
All
this
endeared
her
to
the
MAGA
faithful,
but
not
to
the
court.
In
August
of
2024,
she
was
convicted
on
seven
counts
and
sentenced
to
nine
years.
Colorado
Judge
Matthew
Barrett
called
her
“a
charlatan
who
used,
and
is
still
using,
your
prior
position
in
office
to
peddle
a snake
oil that’s
been
proven
to
be
junk
time
and
time
again.”
None
of
this
dimmed
her
right-wing
star,
and
springing
her
from
jail
became
a
particular
fixation
of
the
Trump
administration.
For
the
record,
Old
Lady
Peters
is
70
—
a
full
nine
years
younger
than
the
guy
who
wrote
that
post,
and
another
one
in
November
demanding
that
the
state
of
Colorado
“FREE
TINA
PETERS,
WHO
SITS
IN
A
COLORADO
PRISON,
DYING
&
OLD,
FOR
ATTEMPTING
TO
EXPOSE
VOTER
FRAUD
IN
THE
RIGGED
2O20
PRESIDENTIAL
ELECTION!!!”
In
March,
the
Justice
Department
docketed
a
statement
of
interest
in
her
federal
habeas
petition
and
announced
that
it
intended
to
review
Peters’s
state
prosecution for
“abuses
of
the
criminal
justice
process.”
In
November,
the
Federal
Bureau
of
Prisons
sent
a
letter
to
the
Colorado
Department
of
Corrections
demanding
that
Peters
be
transferred
to
federal
custody.
A
week
after
Governor
Jared
Polis
refused,
the
Justice
Department’s
Civil
Rights
Division
announced
an
investigation
of
the
Colorado
Department
of
Corrections
and
Colorado
Department
of
Youth
Services
“to
ensure
that
DOC
inmates
and
youths
in
the
custody
of
DYS
are
being
afforded
their
rights
under
the
U.S.
Constitution
and
federal
law.”
(By
coincidence,
that
was
the
same
week
the
administration
decided
to
stop
enforcing
the
Prison
Rape
Elimination
Act’s
requirement
to
protect
transgender
inmates
in
federal
custody.)
On
December
8,
Peters’s
habeas
petition
was
denied,
and
her
lawyer
had
to
get
creative.
Luckily
Peters’s
lawyer
is
Peter
Ticktin,
the
president’s
former
boarding
school
roommate
and
the
author
of
the
book
“What
Makes
Trump
Tick:
My
Years
with
Donald
Trump
from
New
York
Military
Academy
to
the
Present.”
Ticktin
has
also
penned
some
amazing
poetry,
featured
on
his
law
firm’s
website
legalbrains.com.
And
so
he
put
his
mind
to
it
and
came
up
with
A
PLAN.
In
a
letter
published
by
Colorado
Newsline,
he
suggested
that
the
Framers
totally
meant
for
the
president
to
be
able
to
pardon
state
crimes.
The
reason
that
many
pundits
opine
that
you
have
only
the
power
to
grant
pardons
for
federal
offenses
is
that
we
all
understand
the
“United
States”
to
be
the
federal
government
of
our
country.
We
have
one
country,
and
it
is
called
the
“United
States.”
When
we
consider
the
United
States,
it’s
personal
pronoun
is
“it”
which
exemplifies
that
it
is
one
nation.
Therefore,
we
read
“Offenses
against
the
United
States”
to
mean
offenses
against
the
federal
government.[…]
The
question
of
whether
a
president
can
pardon
for
state
offenses
has
never
been
raised
in
any
court.
The
issue
which
needs
to
be
answered
whether
our
founders
understood
or
intended
when
they
wrote
that
the
President
had
the
Power
to
Pardon
offenses
against
the
United
States,
if
it
meant
the
states
or
only
the
federal
government.
Did
they
mean
the
one
central
authority,
or
did
they
mean
the
plural,
meaning
the
states
which
were
united?
In
that
day
and
age,
they
were
speaking
of
the
United
Countries,
and
the
President
was
given
the
right
to
pardon
all
offenses.Moreover,
it
does
not
make
sense
that
they
intended
to
give
the
individual
states
the
power
to
circumvent
the
President’s
power
to
pardon.
The
matter
of
Tina
Peters
is
a
perfect
example
of
how
the
power
of
the
President
is
being
circumvented.
Federalism,
LOL.
But
since
Chief
Justice
John
Roberts
has
assured
the
president
that
none
may
question
him
for
his
exercise
of
the
pardon
power,
Trump
figured
what
the
hell.
Well,
you
can
type
any
shit
you
like
on
social
media.
As
of
this
writing,
the
Justice
Department
has
not
added
this
“pardon”
to
the
list
of
Trump’s
clemency
grants.
Nor
has
it
been
announced
by
the
White
House.
But
lawyers
in
this
administration
have
a
seemingly
bottomless
appetite
for
beclowning
themselves,
so
…
Liz
Dye lives
in
Baltimore
where
she
produces
the
Law
and
Chaos substack and podcast.