Trump's attempt to pardon Tina Peters runs into constitutional limits
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump's use of pardons is a roar shock test of sorts on how people view his second term. |
| 0:05.9 | For some, he's undoing Justice Department, quote, weaponization. |
| 0:09.8 | For others, he's letting loyal followers get away with crimes. |
| 0:13.3 | Earlier this year, President Trump pardoned around 1,500 people for their involvement in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. |
| 0:20.6 | As we near the fifth |
| 0:21.6 | anniversary of the January 6th Capitol attack, one high-profile election denier remains behind bars. |
| 0:28.0 | And as White House correspondent Liz Landers reports, there's little Trump can do to get former |
| 0:32.5 | Colorado county clerk Tina Peters out of prison. |
| 0:36.8 | President Donald Trump has been on a pardoning spree of late, using his executive power |
| 0:41.6 | to bestow clemen on convicted businessmen and the former president of Honduras. |
| 0:47.1 | No auto penises saying. |
| 0:49.7 | Well, they didn't make a mistake. |
| 0:51.8 | They erased it. |
| 0:53.2 | He recently announced on social media that he was pardoning Tina Peters, a former Colorado |
| 0:57.9 | County clerk, though his pardon power only covers federal crimes, not her state convictions. |
| 1:04.5 | He wrote online the Democrats had, quote, been relentless in their targeting of her. |
| 1:09.4 | She caught people cheating on an election election and they said she was cheating. |
| 1:12.6 | She wasn't cheating. |
| 1:13.6 | She may not be a household name, but Peter's case has become a rallying cry for MAGA and the president |
| 1:19.6 | since her conviction last year. |
| 1:22.6 | Tina Peters served as the Mesa County clerk administering elections in the Colorado community after being |
| 1:28.1 | first elected in 2018. A Republican, Peters, became a vocal election denier, questioning the 2020 |
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