DOJ wants ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters moved to federal custody after Trump calls for freedom | 5 Nov 2025 | The Justice Department has requested that the Bureau of Prisons looks into ways to have ex-Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters transferred out of Colorado state prison and into a federal facility following her conviction last year and after President Donald Trump’s calls for her to be freed. The Office of Deputy Attorney General, led by Todd Blanche, the second-in-command to Attorney General Pam Bondi, sent an email Wednesday evening to Bureau of Prisons Director William Marshall, Just the News has learned, calling on the BOP to look into how Peters could be moved from state prison into federal custody. Peters was found guilty in August 2024 on a total of seven charges — four felonies and three misdemeanors in connection with an election security breach following the 2020 election revealing the role of Colorado in the rigged 2020 election.