The Democratic governor of Colorado is taking a lot of heat tonight for granting clemency to the last of Trump's allies still in prison for crimes related to trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Tina Peters. She was serving a nine-year sentence, but today she admitted for the first time she messed up.

Quote, I made a mistake four years ago.

I misled the Secretary of State when allowing a person to gain access to county voting equipment.

That was wrong.

What's you talking about?

Well, remember Peters was tried and convicted of conspiring with other election deniers to breach

her county's election systems in a 2021 municipal election and with the hope of finding evidence

that would prove Trump's baseless 2020 fraud claims. The president had been pressure

in Governor Jared Polis for months to let her go. Here's how he defended the decision tonight.

She has very strange beliefs.

She'll probably continue to have them.

We don't punish people in this country for every strange beliefs.

If you believe the earth's flat, you don't get and you shouldn't get in our nation or my

state, a harsher sentence and somebody believes that the earth is round. And that's what happened

here because of her speech and what she believes, which I vehemently disagree with. Yeah,

this makes me incredibly furious because we have one party in my mind that is not worried about

election integrity.

That's the Republicans, unfortunately.

The Democrats have to worry about it.

For Jared Polis, who I served with in Congress, and this shocks me, by the way, for him to come on and say this is about somebody having a strange belief. No, this is about defending the integrity of the election system.

She was found guilty and sentenced through a court of law. Now, he's going to say that somebody else with a similar crime

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