Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, sentenced in October to nine years behind bars for her role in a security breach of her own county’s election systems, was moved this week from the Larimer County jail system to the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility.
Peters, whose actions made her a star within the right-wing election conspiracy movement, has claimed for years that voter fraud took place in the November, 2020 presidential race as well as subsequent elections, specifically ones in which Republicans lost to Democrats.
Peters announced her transfer first to a crowd of Colorado Republicans, speaking via phone call at their gala last Friday.
“So, okay, I just found out that they’re moving me again,” Peters said. “I’ve had 19 cellmates. I’ve been moved so many times, I can’t even, I can’t even know. And now, instead of the sheriff – who, by the way, ran as a Republican – instead of the sheriff letting me go in January, which was the end of my jail sentence. He kept me here for 60 more days, which is against the law. And now he is sending me on Tuesday, I believe he said, too – we call it D-Dub, the inmates here– It’s Denver Correctional Facility in Denver.”
Peters’ sentence included six months in county jail, followed by eight and a half years in the state Department of Corrections system. After she expressed concerns for her safety in December, officials transferred her from the Mesa County Jail to the Larimer County Jail.
A source familiar with the matter, speaking anonymously with the Colorado Times Recorder, confirmed that Peters had been transferred out of the Larimer County system earlier this week.
Peters, long a cause célèbre with election deniers, has been elevated to a wider national stage during Donald Trump’s second presidency. Last month, the Department of Justice announced it was reviewing her case for “politically motivated prosecution.”
Fellow election conspiracist Joe Oltmann commented on Peters’ transfer, urging the Trump administration to take immediate action on her behalf on his podcast “The Untamed Truth” (formerly Conservative Daily).
“Tina Peters was moved to the Denver Women’s jail earlier this morning, three o’clock in the morning, to serve out the rest of her nine-year sentence,” Oltmann said. “I’m just gonna say this right now to [Attorney General] Pam Bondi, and President Trump, and [FBI Director] Kash Patel, what the f–, what are you waiting for? What are you waiting for? You want them to get their pound of flesh? You can’t do something for a woman that stood up for you for four years? That fought, fought, fought? You can’t levy the things that need to get levied in order to take care of the bad people that have hurt Tina Peters?”
Peters’ popularity with the die-hard MAGA base has led to internal disputes among conservatives as to who is truly fighting on her behalf. Last month, Oltmann’s co-host played a statement from Peters on the podcast, in which she claimed that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell had not been funding her legal battle for some time, despite soliciting donations on her behalf. Oltmann himself claimed that Sherronna Bishop, Executive Director of the Lindell Offense Fund, had similarly stolen money from Peters. Lindell and Bishop have both denied these claims.
