Peters was sentenced to nine years in prison following her conviction on charges related to tampering with voting machines.

Trump lashed out at Democrats in his Truth Social post announcing his pardon of Peters, who is currently serving a 9-year prison sentence.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he is granting Tina Peters a full federal pardon, which is likely to increase the pressure campaign to free the former Colorado clerk from state prison even though he cannot erase her state charges.

President Donald Trump issued a symbolic pardon for Tina Peters on Thursday, but it alone won’t free the former Colorado elections administrator who was convicted under state laws of orchestrating a data breach scheme driven by false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

At the press conference, Trump ranted about “weak and pathetic” Polis for being “run by Tren de Aragua,” the Venezuelan gang that has a presence in the state, and also griped that Polis won’t “allow our wonderful Tina to come out of a jail, and a high-intensity jail.”