This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

President Donald Trump has labeled the far-left governor of Colorado, homosexual Jared Polis, a "SLEAZEBAG" for keeping an "elderly woman" in prison.

Trump's comments targeted the case of Tina Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, "who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, cheating on Elections."

In fact, the leftist court system in Colorado, which is run entirely by Democrats in the executive branch, through the Democrat-majority legislature and into the all-Democrat state supreme Court, which is so far left its members unsuccessfully tried to remove Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, convicted Peters of nine counts for her acts of trying to preserve records from the 2020 vote.

Trump said, "The SLEAZEBAG Governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, refuses to allow an elderly woman, Tina Peters, who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, cheating on Elections, out of jail! She was convicted for trying to stop Democrats from stealing Colorado Votes in the Election.

"She was preserving Election Records, which she was obligated to do under Federal Law. She has now served more than one year in jail, and has eight years to go. On top of everything else, she is a cancer 'survivor.' This lightweight Governor, who has allowed his State to go to hell (Tren de Aragua, anyone?), should be ashamed of himself. FREE TINA!"

The Washington Examiner explained Trump decided to "scold" Polis over the case involving alleged "unauthorized" access to the county's election system.

Interestingly, the Democrat secretary of state in Colorado, Jena Griswold, allowed hundreds of election systems passwords to be posted on the Internet, and she was given a pass over her behavior.

It was District Juge Matthew Barrett who had claimed, while sentencing Peters to years in prison, she "abused" her position.

"I am convinced you would do it all over again if you could. You're as defiant as any defendant this court has ever seen," Barrett ranted in extra-judicial comments at the time. "You are no hero. You abused your position, and you're a charlatan."

The Examiner documented, "Peters was found guilty on 'three counts of attempting to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty, and failing to comply with the secretary of state.""

Peters has maintained her innocence.

Trump is not allowed to pardon her, as he has done for others, because her charges were state counts.

WND previously reported that the Department of Justice already has asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to research paths for Peters to be moved out of state custody and into a federal facility.

Long has there been the suspicion that the Democrat state's actions against Peters over her concerns about the 2020 election integrity were "oriented more toward inflicting political pain that toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives."

It was the office of Deputy Attorney General, led by Todd Blanche, that dispatched an email to Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall, calling on the BOP to do the necessary research.

"At the request of the Deputy Attorney General, please have the Bureau of Prisons explore any and all avenues within BOP's authority to seek and request the transfer of Ms. Tina Peters from the Colorado Department of Corrections to a federal BOP facility," the DOJ instructed.

"We ask that BOP send out a request to Colorado as soon as possible and that BOP begin preparations for any possible transfer into federal custody."

In fact, Trump several times has called for the state to "FREE TINA PETERS," describing her as "a brave and innocent Patriot who has been tortured by crooked Colorado politicians, including the big Mail-In Ballot supporting the governor of the State."

Of course, evidence of vast levels of serious misbehavior remains in the state, and not just in the halls of state government in Denver. Records show the sheriff's office in one foothills county, Gilpin, had to pay out $700,000 some years ago for maintaining in official records references to a black resident as "N—– Roy." And Todd Vriesman, a state judge in that same county, recently had a case overturned because he violated the U.S. Constitution by clearing his courtroom out and sealing the doors, thereby depriving a defendant of a public trial.

Further, Colorado leftists repeatedly have used government power there to attack Christians, trying to deprive them of their constitutionally protected religious and speech rights, in cases that have ended up before the Supreme Court, and which the state has lost.