Trump ally Tina Peters suddenly ‘has remorse’ as governor weighs clemency

A lawyer for imprisoned election denier Tina Peters suggested Monday that his client may now regret her actions – a notable departure from years of insisting she did nothing wrong.

Peters, a former Colorado county clerk and ally of President Donald Trump, is serving a nine-year prison sentence for election-related crimes that prosecutors said were carried out to support election denial claims following the 2020 election.

“We can’t reveal what Tina’s true feelings are about her actions and why she did what she did and what part of that she regrets because she could have made a different decision,” her attorney, John Case, said on conservative talk radio. “But yeah, she, of course, anyone has second thoughts about what they’ve done – and in that respect has remorse.”

For years, Peters and her supporters have maintained she did nothing wrong and portrayed her as a “political prisoner.”

The apparent change in tone comes as Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis considers whether to grant Peters clemency. Polis said last week that Peters would need to show “contrition and apologize for her actions” if he is going to commute her sentence.

Colorado journalist Kyle Clark with 9News highlighted the surprise reversal in a Monday report, noting that Peters had spent years publicly denying wrongdoing in the case that has drawn national attention.

“The surprise announcement from Tina Peters’ attorney is a 180-degree turn from her years of defiance that she is a political prisoner, innocent of the charges against her, just doing her duty when she snuck an outsider into the voting system,” Clark told viewers.

He added that his commentary last week, when he suggested Peters “wasn’t likely to fake remorse to get out of prison,” was “the worst take of my many terrible commentaries.”

Polis has not indicated when he would make a decision in the case.