Boebert says Trump blocked funds for clean drinking water in Colorado over Tina Peters Colorado Republican representative Lauren Boebert welcomed governor Jared Polis’s commutation of Tina Peters, the former Colorado county clerk jailed for breaching voting machine security to hunt for evidence the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
In her statement, Boebert took some credit, and gave even more to Trump.
“I’m proud of the relentless pressure my office and I applied, working hand-in-hand with President Donald Trump, to highlight Tina’s case and demand fairness,” the congresswoman wrote. “This outcome would not have been possible without the continued pressure and advocacy from President Trump who always knew Tina deserved fairness under the law.”
Colorado Republican representative Lauren Boebert speaks on Capitol Hill in 2023. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP In comments to 9News Denver on Friday, Boebert said that she hoped the release of Peters would convince Trump to stop blocking funds for a federal project to bring clean drinking water to Colorado. “We were told that Tina was the reason we couldn’t get water”, Boebert said, an apparent reference to Trump exerting on Colorado’s governor the same kind of pressure he put on Ukraine’s president in 2019, when he withheld congressionally mandated military aid to try to force Ukraine to open a sham investigation into Joe Biden. Trump was impeached for that scheme in 2019.
In January, the president vetoed a bill that would have funded a drinking water project in Boebert’s Colorado district, after it passed the House and Senate unanimously.
Trump cited financial concerns, but Boebert pointed out on the House floor that Trump supported the project before he promised retaliation against Colorado for keeping Peters in jail and she joined the effort to force the administration to release files on Jeffrey Epstein, the late child sexual offender Trump socialized with for nearly two decades.