Donald Trump called Thursday for the release of a Colorado official jailed on charges linked to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, as he renews his attacks on the US voting system.

“FREE TINA PETERS, a brave and innocent Patriot,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, threatening to take “harsh measures” if she is not freed from her nine-year prison sentence.

Peters, a former official in Colorado’s Mesa County, was sentenced in October 2024 for allowing an unauthorized Trump supporter to access confidential voting information several months after the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

The man was seeking to prove election fraud as part of a conspiracy theory touted by Trump that the vote was “rigged” — despite multiple courts having upheld that there were no m

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