President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on December 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Tom Brenner/Getty Images
If you want to understand how the US government works today, you should study President Donald Trump’s attempt to pardon a woman named Tina Peters last week.
Peters is a former Colorado election clerk and a die-hard believer in the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. In 2021, Peters committed a series of crimes in an attempt to “prove” election fraud occurred — including, most seriously, allowing a fel...
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