Republicans: continued

[Brian Peacock]

Might start calling him RSJ Jr.

[Tero]

It would me a shock to me if RFK jr knew polio only infects humans.

[Tero]

DeSantis tried to be too Trumpian?

President Donald Trump distanced himself from Florida’s plans to become the first state to end all vaccine mandates — including for schoolchildren — advising caution on the issue and pointing to the many successful vaccinations available. “I think we have to be very careful,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.

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[Tero]

Trump punishing Colorado:

Trump on Tina Peters: “We have a wonderful woman who was an election official, and she saw cheating in Colorado…She went to the machine and she tried to open it to find out whether or not it was cheating, and they went to her and they said, ‘Did you touch this machine? Yes.’ And they arrested her. They arrested her instead of the people that did the cheating.”

After elections, Mesa County uses a risk-limiting audit procedure to ensure that the results on paper ballots match the results reported by tabulation machines.[25] The audit process involves a bipartisan group of staff and volunteers to randomly select a number of paper ballots and manually check those results against the results issued by a tabulation machine.[25][26] On November 19, 2020, Peters signed off on the results of the risk-limiting audit for Mesa County, stating there were no issues or discrepancies with the results of the 2020 election in the county.[27][26]

Despite signing documents that agreed there were no discrepancies in the election results for the county, Peters became "fixated" on "voting problems" and met with individuals who promoted the false claim that the 2020 election was illegitimate.[28] In the months following the 2020 election, she allowed an unauthorized person to access the Mesa County's Dominion electronic voting machines and to copy the hard drives of those machines.

In 2024, Peters was convicted in Colorado's 21st judicial district on felony charges relating to this unauthorized access and was sentenced to nine years in prison. She was also ordered to pay thousands of dollars in fines.[29] She was immediately taken into custody.[30] Peters is the first election official in the U.S. convicted of criminal charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election predicated on conspiracy theories regarding the legitimacy of Donald Trump's defeat.

A day after state officials investigated the voting machines in Mesa County, Peters attended a 2020 election conspiracy conference held by Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow and conspiracy theorist.[41] During the conference, Ron Watkins presented via livestream the computer files associated with the Mesa County election system he had shared on Telegram previously.[41] He claimed, "the files were from hard drives taken 'without authorization' from Peters' office," which he said his lawyer instructed him to disclose.

On August 24, 2021, the all-Republican Mesa County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously to replace 41 compromised pieces of election equipment with new equipment also from Dominion Voting Systems.

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In May 2025, President Donald Trump directed the United States Department of Justice to take actions to secure Peters' release. In August 2025, Trump issued a social media statement warning that "harsh measures" would be imposed on Colorado if Peters was not released.