Gideon Resnick

On the employment front, figures released this week showed the U.S.

added 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October.

Those job losses include thousands of federal workers who accepted delayed resignations.

The unemployment rate also ticked up to 4.6%, the highest since 2021.

President Trump has embraced the power of pardons in his second term, granting clemency to more than 1,700 people.

But there's one MAGA loyalist that Trump wants to free but can't.

Tina Peters was a Colorado county clerk convicted last year for tampering with voting equipment under her control after the 2020 election.

Handing down the sentence, the judge didn't hold back in his assessment of Peter's character.

Prosecutors said that she had become fixated on false claims of voter fraud spread by Trump after his defeat.

Yvonne Winget Sanchez is a reporter with The Atlantic and profiled her case.

She was sentenced to nine years, but Peters maintained her innocence throughout and in court showed no remorse.

Trump characterizes Peters as a political prisoner.

But these are state charges, not federal, so he lacks the power to release her.

Instead, Trump has been pushing for the Democratic governor, Jared Polis, to enact the pardon, saying this on Monday.

Sanchez said it's going beyond just criticizing Governor Polis.

Polis posted on social media that Peters was convicted by a jury of her peers and that the president doesn't have jurisdiction in the matter.

Sanchez reports that the White House's top lawyer spoke to the county's Republican district attorney about the case, and he denied a federal Bureau of Prisons request to hand Peters over to their custody.

This week, Trump posted on social media that he had granted a full pardon to Peters, despite lacking the authority to do so.

She remains in prison.

And Sanchez says that Trump's position is far from universal.