Trump pardon will free Tina Peters because he 'can interpret' Constitution: Mike Lindell
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Republican candidate for Minnesota governor, predicted that Colorado election-denier Tina Peters would be freed from prison by arguing that President Donald Trump could pardon state charges.
Lindell made the claim during an interview with Alex Jones this week, soon after Trump issued a pardon for Peters despite not having the power to grant clemency for state crimes.
"He came out, and he put the federal pardon out," the pillow executive said. "Remember, I had said, hey, everyone said, well, you can't pardon at the federal level because this is state."
"But what they're doing, everybody, by this federal pardon," he continued. "Now, I don't know if it's ever been done before, Alex, but according to the Constitution, the way you can interpret it, that would override, and he would be able to get Tina out."
"Now, this has never, probably maybe never come up before, where you have a governor arguing with the president of the United States over a person to pardon them or not. Maybe it's never come up before. So this, I believe, is going to have to come together. Maybe it'll have to go to court or whatever and say, this is the way we read it, make a ruling, and let's get her out."
Colorado Attorney General Phill Weiser declared that Peters would remain in state custody despite the pardon.
"The idea that a president could pardon someone tried and convicted in state court has no precedent in American law, would be an outrageous departure from what our constitution requires, and will not hold up," he said in a statement.