US President Donald Trump ripped Colorado Governor Jared Polis and Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein and said that they should “rot in hell” over the incarceration of former election clerk Tina Peters.“God Bless Tina Peters, who is now, for two years out of nine, sitting in a Colorado Maximum Security Prison, at the age of 73, and sick, for the ‘crime’ of trying to stop the massive voter fraud that goes on in her State (where people are leaving in record numbers!),” Trump posted on Truth Social.Referring to Polis as “the Scumbag Governor,” the President added that he wishes “only the worst. May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETTERS!” Trump also attacked the Democratic Governor in a separate post, claiming Colorado and California were the “TOP OUTBOUND STATES IN 2025 (United Van Lines!) — In other words, PEOPLE LEAVING!!!”“That’s what bad governors do to even places blessed with beautiful surrounds and climate,” the second post reads.In a statement obtained by The Hill, Rubinstein said, “There’s a saying in the law: if the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if the law is on your side, pound the law; if neither is on your side, pound the table.”“President Trump has no facts and no law here,” Rubinstein continued. “After trying and failing to invent both, he’s left with nothing but pounding the table.”Last week, Peters asked for a Colorado appeals court to accept Trump’s presidential pardon freeing her, arguing that the appeals court no longer has jurisdiction over her case because of the pardon. Presidents do not have the power to overturn state convictions.At the time Trump announced her clemency, he mocked Polis and suggested the Governor “allowed his State to go to hell.”The administration also attempted to transfer Peters from state to federal custody, but the Colorado Department of Corrections denied the request.Peters was convicted on state charges tied to illegally tampering with voting machines in the 2020 election. She was later sentenced to nine years in prison.Trump has sought to help people convicted of crimes related to his claims that he did not lose the 2020 election, including those convicted or charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.His criticism of Polis over Peters comes after the President vetoed a bill to complete a project that would have delivered water to southeastern Colorado, one of the first vetoes of his second term. Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) blasted the administration for vetoing “a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously.”Boebert said in a post on social platform X that despite the veto, “This isn’t over.”The White House’s defence for the veto cited the project’s cost.“H.R. 131 would continue the failed policies of the past by forcing Federal taxpayers to bear even more of the massive costs of a local water project — a local water project that, as initially conceived, was supposed to be paid for by the localities using it,” the memo reads.
