By pardon, I mean pardon like not doing time — like a get-out-of-jail-free card! Or, with Trump, it might cost an arm and a leg.
The governor of Colorado laughed off Trump’s pardon of the former Mesa County, Colorado clerk, who was convicted on state charges, not federal. So now, Trump seeks revenge.
Peter Ticktin, who represents the former Mesa County clerk, moves ahead with effort to free client from Colorado prisonColorado NewslineBy: Quentin YoungDecember 12, 2025President Donald Trump signed a formal pardon for Tina Peters, according to Peter Ticktin, her Florida-based attorney, who shared the pardon document with Newsline on Friday.The document, which appears to be dated Dec. 5, says it grants “a full and unconditional pardon” for “those offenses she has or may have committed or taken part in related to election integrity and security during the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.”The pardon applies to Peters’ conviction on state charges, Ticktin said. The charges related to Peters’ role in a 2021 security breach when she was the Mesa County clerk.Presidential pardons have universally been understood to apply only to federal crimes, not state crimes. Reports about Trump’s claim to have pardoned Peters, announced on social media Thursday, characterized it as empty or “symbolic.”
Brushing off Trump comes with consequences!
By Joe WalshDecember 31, 2025CBS NewsPresident Trump used his veto power this week for the first time since returning to the White House, rejecting a pair of bipartisan bills designed to make it easier to build a water pipeline in Colorado and give a Native American tribe more control over a portion of the Everglades.Mr. Trump vetoed the two bills on Monday, the White House announced on X, after they were sent to his desk earlier this month. The bills had backers in both parties, and they passed the House and Senate through voice votes. Both houses of Congress would need to pass the bills again by a two-thirds margin to override the president's veto.
Here is what he vetoed, one would have given land back to the indigenous people of Florida but Trump vetoed it saying,
But in a message to Congress on Tuesday, Mr. Trump said the project benefits "special interests" — and accused the tribe of not cooperating with his immigration policies.He wrote that "despite seeking funding and special treatment from the Federal Government, the Miccosukee Tribe has actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected."
You don't cross Trump!
Earlier this year, the tribe joined a lawsuit challenging an immigration detention center in the Everglades that state and federal officials refer to as "Alligator Alcatraz." The tribe has argued the facility could hurt the surrounding environment, impacting the tribe's ability to hunt and hold ceremonies on the land.
The other bill he voted was just to socket it to Colorado after ignoring his pardon,
The other piece of legislation that faced a presidential veto this week was the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. That bill was aimed at completing a long-planned water pipeline that could serve some 50,000 people in southeastern Colorado.[...]Mr. Trump said he vetoed the bill as part of a broader push to cut "taxpayer handouts." He pointed to the pipeline's expected price tag — the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation estimated in 2023 it would cost about $1.4 billion, double the projected price seven years earlier.
And get a load of this, Trump bragged that it is political!
The president in an interview blasted Colorado’s governor when asked why he vetoed a water project.PoliticoBy Sophia Cai12/31/2025President Donald Trump told POLITICO on Wednesday that he vetoed a bipartisan bill to fund a Colorado water project because he views it as a waste of taxpayer money, saying residents are leaving the state under Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.“They’re wasting a lot of money and people are leaving the state. They’re leaving the state in droves. Bad governor,” Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with POLITICO.Trump’s veto comes amid a broader feud with Polis. The president has repeatedly criticized the governor over the case of Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk serving a nine-year sentence after she was convicted of state charges for allowing unauthorized access to voting machines. Peters, like Trump, has spread conspiracy theories about Trump’s 2020 electoral loss.
The state committed a cardinal sin and Trump wants his pound of flesh!
The administration has also denied recent disaster declaration requests from Colorado following wildfires and flooding in December, a move the White House insists is not politically motivated.“It’s very disappointing that the President is hurting rural Colorado by vetoing this bipartisan and non-controversial bill … we’ll continue to fight for this extremely worthy and important project,” Polis said in a statement. Colorado lawmakers also blasted the veto as punitive.
Don't turn your back on Trump because he will get you in the end.
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