In this revealing conversation from Going Rogue’s 100th episode, former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters tells Lara Logan about threats of further legal action, her time behind bars, and why she continues speaking out about election integrity.
Filmed LIVE before a studio audience at the America First Warehouse on Long Island, New York, this milestone Election Integrity Special brings together intelligence experts, investigators, and election integrity advocates to examine allegations of election manipulation, vulnerabilities in voting systems, foreign interference, and the importance of transparent and secure elections.
Featuring Gary Berntsen, Ralph Pezzullo, Martin Rodil, Mark Cook, Dr. Andrew Paquette, Ed Solomon, Joe Hoft, and Tina Peters.
As Americans head to the polls tomorrow, questions surrounding election security, transparency, and public trust remain front and center.
And are you afraid they're, I mean,
are they trying to put you back behind bars?
Oh yeah, I've had Gavin Newsom tell me
when he thought I was accepting the job in Shasta
County, California with Clint Curtis,
and he said, I will go to the parole board and
make sure she doesn't come here,
and I've had Mark Elias threaten me with RICO charges.
I've had, you know, of course, Jenna Griswold,
you know, she's like the same old broken record,
and Phil Weiser and all those.
And Jenna Griswold being the Colorado Secretary of State.
The one that who...
Whose employee came in and deleted 29,000 election records off
the Mesa County server.
And, you know, what we found out,
there were 36 wireless devices in the machines.
And the ability to flip votes.
And that's what unleashed hell.
I will.
Would you, knowing everything that it cost you
and everything that you went through, would you do it all again?
Well, if I say yes, then the governor
and the prosecution are going to say she's showing no
remorse. So I have to be very careful when I answer that question.
But let me say it this way,
that when you know something is a righteous cause
and you know that God has called you to it,
you have to do it and you have to stand up and you can't back down.
You know, you make it look so easy.
I mean, you are just, you are the picture of elegance.
But I know that you left home with a tiny bag
and one pair of clothes and you've been on the road ever since.
Can you tell us what you've been doing?
So I was released June 1st,
and it was interesting because the press was waiting for me to be
released on June 1st,
and they did this little clandestine operation and moved me to another
Another prison and did all these things to escape detection
and so that was pretty cool
And then I spoke out on Steve Bannon's show
that morning after not sleeping for I don't know
however many hours and I think it was home for a week
and then and then I just hit the road
when I was in prison and I was like a
A racehorse in a stall, and I kept saying,
I've got to get out of here, I've got to get out of here.
And then I saw Mondami, I saw Spanberger,
I told the girls in the prison, I said,
she's going to win by 51%, and they go, well, how can you know that?
And I said, because I know how these machines work, she won by 50.8%.
So I'm like in there just, so when I got out,
it was just like, you know, a bird set free out of a cage.
And I knew that I had to keep going.
You know, we have a short, we have 17 days,
17 days left until the midterms right now.
And so I, the president had me,
had lunch with me for two and a half hours
in the Oval Office, well, right outside the Oval Office
in his private dining room.
And I told him what I felt had to be done
to save the midterms.
And then...
When I came out, I love telling this story
because when I came out, there was Marco Rubio
and J.D. Vance and Susie Wiles
and a couple other people there for a meeting.
And he pointed to me and looked at them.
He said, this is free Tina Peters.
And they started laughing.
They said, we know who she is.
But the point of that that I want you to remember is this.
I'd met an intern.
I'm going to turn.
He came up to me, he said, Ms. Peters,
he said, the whole time you were in prison, he
said, every day,
thousands and thousands of people would call the White House, and they
would say, free Tina Peters.
And that's what the president was referring to.
That's Joe the Boxman, free Tina Peters.
There it is.
Cheers.
Cheers.
So a quick recap for people who may not remember the story completely.
But the bottom line was that you
were a county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado.
It's a red county.
You knew it was going to go for Trump.
Predictably, it went for Trump.
But there were a lot of people that were very unhappy with the results
who were making complaints to you.
You didn't initially think that there was an issue,
but you started to pay attention.
And then when you had someone
from Dominion Voting Systems come to your offices and say
that they were going to do basically a system update,
and you knew that that was contrary
to both state and federal election laws,
in terms of preservation of records.
And you were concerned about,
what did they call it, it was a name they...
Trusted Build.
Trusted Build.
Don't you love that?
Yeah, they always know how to use...
Words to deceive, right?
So they said it's a trusted build,
which of course, you know, as they're building it,
erases the records and puts new data onto the system.
And you weren't going to have that happen.
So you preserved a forensic copy.
You brought in a cyber person to preserve a forensic copy.
And, you know, they twisted themselves into knots,
making that a crime.
Thank you very much for your time.
And ignoring your duties in your position.
But that forensic copy that you secured,
was that the only copy of an election server in the 2020 election
that was actually preserved without interference?
There's another one in Elbert County that he preserved ahead of time
and they found out about it
and the Secretary of State made him give it up.
And I don't know around the other,
it's interesting because it wasn't the 2020 election.
You know, although if you listen to mainstream media,
they say that I breached the computer,
that I was charged with breaching the computer,
tampering with the computer,
the elections machines. Those were not even the charges. You know,
that's what the mainstream media would have you believe.
It was influencing a public servant.
And not only, normally for one act, they would take,
like, say one felony, they would take
and they would stack all the other things under that,
you know, in a cumulative charge.
They made mine all consecutive,
so they played out to almost nine years.
But it's interesting,
one of the most egregious parts of what I was charged with
is the guy that's sitting there in front
of the system that I was charged with
that I took an oath to the U.S. Constitution
as well as the Colorado Constitution to protect.
And he's sitting there deleting 29,000 election records
and 36 wireless devices we discovered
and the ability, the software with the ability to flip votes.
And that's the person that I was charged with influencing
and that I received a felony.
And then the other two were just equally as egregious.