Trump meets election clerk Tina Peters at White House

President Donald Trump hosted former Mesa County, Colorado, election clerk Tina Peters at the White House on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, following her recent release from prison. The president announced the meeting on his Truth Social account, posting a photograph of the two together in the Oval Office.

In his post, Trump stated that Peters had come to thank him for securing her release. He characterized her imprisonment as a consequence of her efforts to expose election fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Peters was sentenced in October 2024 to serve nine years in prison after being convicted on seven felony counts, including attempting to influence a public official and official misconduct. The charges stemmed from a 2021 incident in which she allowed an unauthorized person to access and copy data from county voting equipment in an attempt to prove claims of widespread fraud.

Her sentence was commuted earlier this year by Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat. Multiple reports indicate that Trump had pressured Polis to release Peters since returning to office in January 2026. Peters, who is 70 and has battled cancer, served approximately two years of her sentence before...