Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) thanked President Trump on Monday for issuing pardons to dozens of individuals connected to the effort to overturn the 2020 election, but urged the president to consider extending his broad authority to one more person: former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters.
“Thank you @POTUS for pardoning the 2020 alternate electors! They fought for election integrity and were punished harshly by a politically weaponized government,” Greene wrote in a post on the social platform X.
“But please free Tina Peters!!” she continued. “She is a gold star mom wrongly convicted and serving time in prison. She is a political hostage in America!”
Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, became an icon in certain staunch pro-Trump circles in the aftermath of the 2020 election. She was the first local official convicted in connection to efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison after she was convicted of election interference related to a breach of her county’s voting systems.
Prosecutors alleged that Peters stole a county employee’s security badge to help a man associated with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell gain access to the county’s voter systems. Lindell had been publicly pushing unfounded claims of election fraud at the time.
According to prosecutors, Peters allegedly allowed a man posing as a county employee to take copies of the election system’s hard drive before and after a software upgrade in May 2021.
Greene’s plea comes after the president announced sweeping pardons for dozens of high-profile individuals connected to the effort to overturn the 2020 election, including Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Boris Epshteyn and others.
He also pardoned numerous individuals charged in several states in connection to the so-called “fake electors” scheme, in which individuals signed a document falsely claiming Trump won the state’s 2020 presidential race.
Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, and Trump’s allies were never charged in federal court, making the pardons largely symbolic.
Peters, too, only faced state charges, so a hypothetical pardon from the president would not reverse her prison sentence or guilty conviction.
Greene has emerged in recent months as an outspoken figure in the GOP, forging an independent streak after bucking her party on key issues, including health care subsidies and releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Even as Greene has publicly criticized members of her party, she has maintained her support for the president. She has also been a consistent supporter of Jan. 6 defendants and celebrated the president’s sweeping pardon earlier this year to more than 1,500 individuals charged in connection to the riot.
