New Delhi, Dec. 4 -- US President Donald Trump has intensified pressure on Colorado officials to release Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk imprisoned for election-related crimes, casting her as an "elderly woman" and "cancer survivor" unjustly targeted by political opponents. His renewed intervention - delivered in a blistering Truth Social post - has escalated an already fraught legal and political dispute surrounding Peters' nine-year sentence.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump sharply criticised Colorado's Democratic Governor Jared Polis and demanded Peters' immediate release.

"The SLEAZEBAG Governor of Colorado, Jared Polis, refuses to allow an elderly woman, Tina Peters, who was unfairly convicted of what the Democrats do, c...