President Trump said Thursday evening he is granting a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who is serving a nine-year state sentence for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines — even though the president's pardon power is widely understood to only apply to federal crimes.

"Democrats have been relentless in their targeting of TINA PETERS, a Patriot who simply wanted to make sure that our Elections were Fair and Honest," the president claimed on Truth Social , though Peters was prosecuted by an elected Republican district attorney. "Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the "crime" of demanding Honest Elections."

Mr. Trump claimed Peters was trying to "expose Voter Fraud" in 2020. The president has long insisted — without evidence — that he lost the

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