Trump Threatens To Punish Colorado If They Don't Set Election Criminal Free

 

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Donald Trump has once again proven that he is a "do as I say, not as I do" kind of guy by acting like he wants criminals punished while at the same time releasing more criminals than any other president. He's back at it again, demanding that the state of Colorado release convicted felon Tina Peters, who was sentenced to 9 years in prison for illegally accessing and sharing access to the state's voting machines and other data. Trump is threatening to "punish" Colorado if they don't comply with his demands to release this criminal. Farron Cousins explains what's happening.  Link - https://thehill.com/homenews/administ... Become a member for EARLY ACCESS to videos:    / @farronbalanced   Follow me on social media! https://bsky.app/profile/farronbalanc...   / farronbalanced     / farronbalanced   https://www.threads.net/@farronbalanced   / farronbalanced     / farronbalanced   Listen to my videos in an audio format by subscribing to my podcast: https://farronbalanceddaily.buzzsprou... Don't forget to like, comment, and share! And subscribe to stay connected!

RACISM ON DISPLAY! TINA PETERS is an ELECTION DENIER who traveled around the country spewing her PROPAGANADA & LIES! The ORANGE TURD thought he could PARDON HER - someone must have told DEMENTIA DON that she was convicted of STATE CRIMES - that's called being STUPID! When reason & sanity fails, threaten the STATE? NOTE TO ANYONE WHO HASN'T FIGURED IT OUT: FOX NEWS = FAKE NEWS LIARS paid $787 MILLION for their ELECTION LIES & MURDOCH acknowledged in his DEPOSITION that it was done for ratings. NEWS MAX just settled with DOMINION for $67 MILLION. Previously settle with SMARTMATIC for $40 MILLION for their ELECTION LIES. OAN settled with SMARTMATIC for their ELECTION LIES - in CONFIDENTIAL SETTLEMENT! ONLY PARDONS WHITE PEOPLE! Remember the FULL PAGE AD the RACIST took out that the CENTRAL PARK 5 should be executed....minor problem! THEY WERE INNOCENT! They spent time in PRISON due to the ORANGE TURD! Recent PARDONS were for GUILTY WHITE PEOPLE never mind the JAN 6 THUGS - many who had VIOLENT CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS - FREED TO COMMIT MORE CRIME! The ORANGE TURD even praised the RACISTS - WHITE SUPREMACISTS in CHARLOTTESVILLE who chanted JEWS WILL NOT REPLACE US & assaulted people, killing one innocent woman.

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Let's not allow MAGA's hysteria to conceal DAMAGE that the RNC, ELECTION DENIERS & CONSPIRACY THEORISTS are spewing to DESTROY the RIGHT TO VOTE! GERRYMANDERING, VOTER PURGES, PREVENTING MAIL-IN BALLOTS, LIMITING POOLING HOURS & EQUIPMENT....subtle but effective ANTI-VOTING TACTICS. 

JOHN LEWIS RISKED HIS LIFE FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE!

The DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY is happening on so many fronts that it seems overwhelming...if it were not for many voices in INDEPENDENT MEDIA, their fascist acts would be concealied. 

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United Sovereign Americans is back – and still filing conspiracy-driven lawsuits

Wednesday, July 30

The anti-voting group United Sovereign Americans is back, now known as Unite4Freedom, and they claim to be filing two bombshell lawsuits in New York and Colorado. Plus, an update on Tina Peters and a Colorado conspiracy theorist who lost his election and later allegedly set fire to voting machines. 

As always, thanks for reading. 

— Matt Cohen, Senior Reporter

United Sovereign Americans Is Now Unite4Freedom And They’re Still Filing Conspiracy-Driven Lawsuits

In spring 2024, a radical new anti-voting group emerged seemingly out of nowhere to try to disrupt the election with a slew of lawsuits challenging the accuracy of states’ voter rolls across the country. 

None of their lawsuits were successful, but the group nonetheless continued to build a grassroots anti-voting movement through their online weekly seminars, which still draw thousands of participants across the country. Now, United Sovereign Americans is back — rebranded as Unite4Freedom — with a pair of federal lawsuits they claim to be filing in New York and Colorado to expose mass election conspiracies. 

In a press release, Unite4Freedom CEO Marly Hornik said her group is suing New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), the New York State Board of Elections and various New York media outlets “for a conspiracy to deprive citizens of the right to verify their votes and to intimidate voters.”

“Ten days after these officials were advised of massive election irregularities extracted from the state’s certified election returns, they went on the warpath against the messengers in an 18-month criminal investigation splashed on the front cover of every newspaper from Montauk to Buffalo and across the country,” Hornik said in a statement.

Unite4Freedom is also suing Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) and Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) “for depriving Colorado citizens of the right to vote by their failure to properly identify voters before counting their ballots, as proven by their own official records, diluting valid votes, ignoring Colorado state laws, and making a mockery of our founding principles,” Hornik said.

While the lawsuit is not directly tied to Tina Peters — the former GOP local election clerk in Colorado who was sentenced to prison for her role in a voting system data breach in a failed attempt to find voter fraud — Hornik nonetheless invoked her. 

“To avoid scrutiny, these same officials targeted a Gold Star mother and whistleblower, Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk and had her put in prison for her attempts to secure records of the 2020 election according to her duties under federal law,” Hornik said in a statement.

I wrote a lot on Hornik and her group last year — of the many anti-voting groups that worked overtime to push disinformation and purge voters, they were one of the most ambitious. Yet they were also one of the least successful in court. So I’m a little surprised to see them come back with a pair of high-profile lawsuits — it’s not cheap to sue! 

And I’m curious to see what new (or recycled) disinformation narratives they’re pushing in these New York and Colorado lawsuits. But as of press time, the lawsuits have yet to be filed on the docket.

Last week, Hornik and Unite4Freedom held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to announce the lawsuits. While she didn’t offer more details, she did take the opportunity to rant about the lawsuits’ targets.

“We’re suing the officials who have shown us, through their own choices, that they don’t care about America,” Hornik said. “Letitia James, the New York State Board of Elections, the New York media, Jena Griswold and Phil Weiser — they have all shown us who they are. And it’s done. They’re not going to help. They’re not going to come in and be part of the solution. They are the problem, and that’s why we are calling them into federal court.”

Tina Peters’ Lawyer Is In Touch With the DOJ

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Speaking of Peters, a quick update: A federal magistrate judge heard Peters’ request to be released on bond last week, but has not yet reached a recommendation on her petition. 

Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison in October for her role in a voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud. Since then, President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to “secure her release.” She was convicted on state charges, so it’s unclear what, exactly, the DOJ can do.

Nonetheless, Peters has become something of a folk hero among the MAGA and election conspiracy crowd. Her legal team appealed her conviction, and while that was happening, her attorneys filed a federal habeas corpus petition for her to be released on bond — the subject of last week’s hearing.  

There’s not much news to come out of that hearing except a confirmation from Peters’ attorney Peter Ticktin that he’s in contact with the DOJ, according to Colorado Newsline. 

“I’ve basically been letting people at the DOJ understand what our situation is, or her situation is, and remember, the president of the United States basically called for her immediate release and has made it very clear that she’s a political prisoner,” Ticktin said.

Again, since this is a state charge, there’s not a whole lot the DOJ can do, but the fact the DOJ — and Trump — are watching Peters’ situation so closely is nonetheless interesting.

A Colorado conspiracy theorist lost his election. Then he allegedly set fire to voting machines

I don’t mean to focus so much on Colorado in this week’s newsletter, but there just seems to be a lot of alarming things happening in the far-right anti-voting space in the Centennial State lately. 

Last month, William Wayne Bryant was arrested for allegedly throwing a molotov cocktail in a county building in Pagosa Springs, damaging Dominion Voting Systems equipment in the county clerk’s office. 

Though authorities haven’t provided a motive for the attack, according to the Associated Press a lot has come out about Bryant that speaks for itself. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for county sheriff in 2022, and blamed Dominion voting machines for his election loss, citing debunked conspiracies from the film 2,000 Mules, whose director, conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza, later apologized for presenting false information. Bryant’s social media pages are reportedly filled with election disinformation and conspiracies related to the 2020 election. 

“It is appalling that a Colorado elections office was firebombed, and even more so that the suspect has a history of spreading election conspiracies,” Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said in a statement. “Attacks on democratic institutions must be strongly condemned.” 

It’s been five years since the 2020 election and the flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation that Trump and his acolytes unleashed in the aftermath. Even after winning the 2024 election, Trump and the MAGA world have yet to let go of the Big Lie — especially as the Epstein scandal worsens, and Trump reignites 2020 conspiracies as a distraction.

But it’s important to remember why these conspiracy theories are so dangerous: For one thing, because they can, and often do, lead to violence. The deadly riot on Jan. 6, 2021 is still fresh in everyone’s mind, but there’s been a steady uptick in threats and incidents like this one in Colorado in the past five years. And seeing news like this is a sobering reminder.

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United Sovereign Americans is back – and still filing conspiracy-driven lawsuits

 

Wednesday, July 30

The anti-voting group United Sovereign Americans is back, now known as Unite4Freedom, and they claim to be filing two bombshell lawsuits in New York and Colorado. Plus, an update on Tina Peters and a Colorado conspiracy theorist who lost his election and later allegedly set fire to voting machines.    As always, thanks for reading.    — Matt Cohen, Senior Reporter

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United Sovereign Americans Is Now Unite4Freedom And They’re Still Filing Conspiracy-Driven Lawsuits

In spring 2024, a radical new anti-voting group emerged seemingly out of nowhere to try to disrupt the election with a slew of lawsuits challenging the accuracy of states’ voter rolls across the country.    None of their lawsuits were successful, but the group nonetheless continued to build a grassroots anti-voting movement through their online weekly seminars, which still draw thousands of participants across the country. Now, United Sovereign Americans is back — rebranded as Unite4Freedom — with a pair of federal lawsuits they claim to be filing in New York and Colorado to expose mass election conspiracies.    In a press release, Unite4Freedom CEO Marly Hornik said her group is suing New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), the New York State Board of Elections and various New York media outlets “for a conspiracy to deprive citizens of the right to verify their votes and to intimidate voters.”   “Ten days after these officials were advised of massive election irregularities extracted from the state’s certified election returns, they went on the warpath against the messengers in an 18-month criminal investigation splashed on the front cover of every newspaper from Montauk to Buffalo and across the country,” Hornik said in a statement.   Unite4Freedom is also suing Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) and Attorney General Phil Weiser (D) “for depriving Colorado citizens of the right to vote by their failure to properly identify voters before counting their ballots, as proven by their own official records, diluting valid votes, ignoring Colorado state laws, and making a mockery of our founding principles,” Hornik said.   While the lawsuit is not directly tied to Tina Peters — the former GOP local election clerk in Colorado who was sentenced to prison for her role in a voting system data breach in a failed attempt to find voter fraud — Hornik nonetheless invoked her.    “To avoid scrutiny, these same officials targeted a Gold Star mother and whistleblower, Tina Peters, former Mesa County Clerk and had her put in prison for her attempts to secure records of the 2020 election according to her duties under federal law,” Hornik said in a statement.   I wrote a lot on Hornik and her group last year — of the many anti-voting groups that worked overtime to push disinformation and purge voters, they were one of the most ambitious. Yet they were also one of the least successful in court. So I’m a little surprised to see them come back with a pair of high-profile lawsuits — it’s not cheap to sue!    And I’m curious to see what new (or recycled) disinformation narratives they’re pushing in these New York and Colorado lawsuits. But as of press time, the lawsuits have yet to be filed on the docket.   Last week, Hornik and Unite4Freedom held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. to announce the lawsuits. While she didn’t offer more details, she did take the opportunity to rant about the lawsuits’ targets.   “We’re suing the officials who have shown us, through their own choices, that they don’t care about America,” Hornik said. “Letitia James, the New York State Board of Elections, the New York media, Jena Griswold and Phil Weiser — they have all shown us who they are. And it’s done. They’re not going to help. They’re not going to come in and be part of the solution. They are the problem, and that’s why we are calling them into federal court.”

Tina Peters’ Lawyer Is In Touch With the DOJ

Speaking of Peters, a quick update: A federal magistrate judge heard Peters’ request to be released on bond last week, but has not yet reached a recommendation on her petition.    Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison in October for her role in a voting system data breach, in a failed attempt to find voter fraud. Since then, President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to “secure her release.” She was convicted on state charges, so it’s unclear what, exactly, the DOJ can do.   Nonetheless, Peters has become something of a folk hero among the MAGA and election conspiracy crowd. Her legal team appealed her conviction, and while that was happening, her attorneys filed a federal habeas corpus petition for her to be released on bond — the subject of last week’s hearing.     There’s not much news to come out of that hearing except a confirmation from Peters’ attorney Peter Ticktin that he’s in contact with the DOJ, according to Colorado Newsline.    “I’ve basically been letting people at the DOJ understand what our situation is, or her situation is, and remember, the president of the United States basically called for her immediate release and has made it very clear that she’s a political prisoner,” Ticktin said.   Again, since this is a state charge, there’s not a whole lot the DOJ can do, but the fact the DOJ — and Trump — are watching Peters’ situation so closely is nonetheless interesting.

A Colorado conspiracy theorist lost his election. Then he allegedly set fire to voting machines

I don’t mean to focus so much on Colorado in this week’s newsletter, but there just seems to be a lot of alarming things happening in the far-right anti-voting space in the Centennial State lately.    Last month, William Wayne Bryant was arrested for allegedly throwing a molotov cocktail in a county building in Pagosa Springs, damaging Dominion Voting Systems equipment in the county clerk’s office.    Though authorities haven’t provided a motive for the attack, according to the Associated Press a lot has come out about Bryant that speaks for itself. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for county sheriff in 2022, and blamed Dominion voting machines for his election loss, citing debunked conspiracies from the film 2,000 Mules, whose director, conspiracy theorist Dinesh D’Souza, later apologized for presenting false information. Bryant’s social media pages are reportedly filled with election disinformation and conspiracies related to the 2020 election.    “It is appalling that a Colorado elections office was firebombed, and even more so that the suspect has a history of spreading election conspiracies,” Secretary of State Jena Griswold (D) said in a statement. “Attacks on democratic institutions must be strongly condemned.”    It’s been five years since the 2020 election and the flood of conspiracy theories and disinformation that Trump and his acolytes unleashed in the aftermath. Even after winning the 2024 election, Trump and the MAGA world have yet to let go of the Big Lie — especially as the Epstein scandal worsens, and Trump reignites 2020 conspiracies as a distraction. But it’s important to remember why these conspiracy theories are so dangerous: For one thing, because they can, and often do, lead to violence. The deadly riot on Jan. 6, 2021 is still fresh in everyone’s mind, but there’s been a steady uptick in threats and incidents like this one in Colorado in the past five years. And seeing news like this is a sobering reminder.

Deranged Trump Demands Release Of MAGA Election Criminal

 

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Donald Trump went on an unhinged tirade about the prosecution and conviction of former Mesa County, Colorado election clerk Tina Peters on Tuesday, calling it a “communist persecution” and ordering his DOJ to work on freeing her from the 9-year sentence she received last August. The charges that Peters was convicted of are all state charges, meaning that Trump cannot issue her a pardon, and the DOJ doesn’t have jurisdiction over the matter. But what Attorney General Pam Bondi CAN do is make the lives of the prosecutors in Colorado a living hell, which is what is likely to happen next. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.   Link – https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump... Subscribe to stay connected to our stories:    / theringoffire   Support us by becoming a member on YouTube:    / @theringoffire   Or Support us on Patreon:   / theringoffire   Buy Ring of Fire merch: https://www.buyrof.com/ Find us on social media! Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffiremedia   Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   TikTok:   / ringoffiremedia   *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. On Monday, an unhinged and completely unwell, Donald Trump got on truth social to demand that the US Department of Justice do something to get Tina Peters out of prison. Now, for those of you who may not remember that name, Tina Peters, of course, emerged as a huge election denier. She was a Mesa County election clerk in the 2020 election in the state of Colorado. She became a close confidant and basically good friend to MyPillow, CEO, Mike Lindell, who hyped up her fraudulent claims of voter fraud and all that and said she basically held the key to exposing the theft of the 2020 election, which of course we all know didn't actually happen. Peters was convicted last August on multiple different counts, in fact, she was sentenced to nine years in prison. Um, she was found guilty of seven of 10 charges, uh, in a 2021 breach of Colorado's election system. She was convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public official conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, official misconduct, violation of duty, and failure to comply with an order by the Secretary of State. Uh, she allowed, you know, unauthorized access into the voting machines and she was convicted, right? She went through due process, convicted, got nine years in prison last August. Well, Trump got on truth social apparently for some reason, thinking of Tina Peters on Monday and said this radical left Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser ignores illegals committing violent crimes like rape and murder in his state, and instead jailed. Tina Peters, a 69-year-old gold star mother who worked to expose and document Democrat election fraud. Tina is an innocent political prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of cruel and unusual punishment. This is a communist persecution by the radical left Democrats to cover up their election crimes and misdeeds. In 2020, the same Democrat party that flies to El Salvador to try to free an MS 13 terrorist is cruelly imprisoning, perhaps for life. A grandmother who's brave and heroic son gave his life for America Colorado must end this unjust incarceration of an innocent American. I am hereby directing the Department of Justice to take all necessary action to help secure the release of this hostage being held in a Colorado prison by the Democrats for political reasons free Tina Peters. Now, cool. Um, they can't, you see, these are state crimes. The DOJ does not in fact have jurisdiction over that, and Donald Trump can't pardon her. While Colorado governor Jared Polis could of course grant her clemency or a pardon, she hasn't even filed a petition for that. So Tina Peters Isn't even asking the governor the only one who could give her the pardon to do it. She's serving her sentence. She was not a political prisoner. She sure as hell is not a hostage. She's a criminal. She broke the law. She didn't expose a thing. It was all lies. It's all a conspiracy pushed by Donald Trump. By the way, you are the reason she's in jail. You idiot. Do you even realize that? Are you smart enough to realize that? Because I don't think you are. Tina Peters would not be in prison today had it not been for your election lies and those pushed by Mike Lindell. You too are responsible for her being in jail for buying into the conspiracy theories. But I don't think you have a guilty conscience about that. I don't think you even think that's a thing, but that is what happened.

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