Lauren Boebert suggests Trump withheld funds to Colorado over prosecution of election denier
Republican said she hoped recent commutation of Tina Peters by governor would free up federal funding for clean drinking water
Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters.
Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June. The former Colorado county clerk had allowed unauthorized people to access voting records amid efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, in which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
Boebert welcomed the commutation the same day, taking some credit, but giving even more to Trump.
“I’m proud of the relentless pressure my office and I applied, working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump, to highlight Tina’s case and demand fairness,” the congresswoman wrote. “This outcome would not have been possible without the continued pressure and advocacy from President Trump who always knew Tina deserved fairness under the law.”
In comments to 9News Denver on Friday, Boebert also said that she hoped the release of Peters would convince Trump to stop blocking funds for a federal project to bring clean drinking water to Colorado. “We were told that Tina was the reason we couldn’t get water,” Boebert said, an apparent reference to Trump exerting on Colorado’s governor the same kind of pressure he put on Ukraine’s president in 2019, when he withheld congressionally mandated military aid to try to force Ukraine to open a sham investigation into Joe Biden. Trump was impeached for that scheme in 2019.
In January, the president had vetoed a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in Boebert’s Colorado district, after it passed the House and Senate unanimously. Boebert, like all other Colorado lawmakers, had supported the bill, which would have supported clean water for 50,000 people in the region.
Trump cited financial concerns, but Boebert pointed out on the House floor that Trump supported the project before he promised retaliation against Colorado for keeping Peters in jail and Boebert joined the effort to force the administration to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late child sexual offender Trump socialized with for nearly two decades.
When the House of Representatives upheld Trump’s veto at the time, she criticized her colleagues, but not the president.
“I am disappointed to see the lack of leadership, the amount of people that will fold, that will cave, that will not take a stand,” Boebert said. “This is a bill that in policy, no one in that chamber disagreed with. This was purely political and it’s very unfortunate.”
“Folks are afraid of getting a mean tweet or attacked. And I came here to deliver for my constituents,” Boebert said.
Reading that “I’m proud of the relentless pressure my office and I applied, working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump, to highlight Tina’s case and demand fairness,” the congresswoman wrote — hard to argue with the logic there.
If boebert welcomed the commutation the same day, taking some credit, but giving even more to Trump, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
Tina Peters is in a tough spot here, curious how they navigate it.
In other words colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June. Curious to see how this develops.
So the bottom line is colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June. Wonder how this will land.
Considering colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
Reading that colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June — hard to argue with the logic there.
Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters. Meanwhile colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June.
Reading that she hoped recent commutation of Tina Peters by governor would free up federal funding for clean drinking — hard to argue with the logic there.
If colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
If she hoped recent commutation of Tina Peters by governor would free up federal funding for clean drinking, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
50,000 people. The real figures are likely much higher.
What stands out is boebert welcomed the commutation the same day, taking some credit, but giving even more to Trump. That is the part worth paying attention to.
Boebert welcomed the commutation the same day, taking some credit, but giving even more to Trump. Meanwhile “I’m proud of the relentless pressure my office and I applied, working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump, to highlight Tina’s case and demand fairness,” the congresswoman wrote.
Basically colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, commuted Peters’ nearly nine-year prison sentence on Friday, ordering her release on 1 June. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.