President Donald Trump on Sunday morning made a public plea for the release of Tina Peters, the former County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado, who is serving a nine-year prison sentence after being convicted by a grand jury in a Colorado state court on seven charges — four of which were felonies — relating to unauthorized access to election machines during the 2020 presidential election.
Trump wrote on social media (in all caps): “Free Tina Peters, who sits in a Colorado prison, dying & old, for attempting to expose voter fraud in the rigged 2020 presidential election!!!”
(Note: Peters, who is 70 years old, is serving her sentence at the La Vista Correctional Facility, a medium-security facility for women located in Pueblo.)
Kyle Clark of 9News in Colorado reported: “As President Trump increases pressure on Colorado Governor Polis to free Tina Peters, a close ally of Peters is calling for Gov Polis and Attorney General Weiser to be executed.”
As seen below, MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann called for the execution of Polis, Weiser and Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, by name.
NEW: As President Trump increases pressure on Colorado Governor Polis to free Tina Peters, a close ally of Peters is calling for Gov Polis and Attorney General Weiser to be executed.
MAGA podcaster Joe Oltmann called for the execution of several Colorado Democrats by name. pic.twitter.com/BbdgLKpLt5
— Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) November 25, 2025
Clark also noted that the Republican prosecutor who put Peters away, Dan Rubinstein, “is also asking the Governor to keep her in state custody.” (Trump has requested that Peters be transferred to federal custody while she appeals her case at the state level, which Rubinstein has called an attempt “to bypass our judicial system.”)
[NOTE: Rubinstein said of Peters last year: “She was elected specifically to be the safeguard and then became the threat by sneaking people into the room with machines who weren’t supposed to be in there, filming the passwords that she wasn’t supposed to have access to, passing them on to other people.”]
Rubinstein and Weiser said in a joint letter sent to Governor Polis on Thursday: “The Bureau of Prison’s request to transfer Ms. Peters is a transparent attempt to bypass the President’s inability to pardon Ms. Peters or commute her sentence. At best, by seeking her transfer to federal custody, the federal government is attempting to circumvent Colorado’s sovereignty to administer and enforce its own laws and hold accountable those who break them.”
Many commenters on X are asking if the FBI is going to arrest Oltmann for threatening the lives of elected officials, and others are leaving sarcastic comments regarding Oltmann’s threats, including one who replied, “I wonder where he got that idea.” (Over the weekend, Trump suggested the death penalty for Democratic lawmakers who have asked U.S. military officers to reject illegal orders.)