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MAGA icon Tina Peters Her spokesman claimed she was attacked and injured in prison, but video footage of the incident appears to tell a different story.
Representative Peters, a former Mesa County clerk, colorado — said the attack happened Sunday night at La Vista Correctional Facility, where she is serving a nine-year sentence on charges related to the 2020 election.
“Tina was filling the water fixture in the maintenance bay when an inmate approached her in the closet and began hit her angrily“, a representative for Peters said in a statement posted on social media, which received more than a million views.
The spokesperson added that “Tina put up her hands and pushed the prisoner away” and suffered “minor injuries” during the altercation.
Peters was placed in solitary confinement and told she would be charged with felony assault, the statement said, adding: “Can you imagine 70-year-old Tina Peters being charged with another felony for defending herself?”
However, surveillance footage of the encounter obtained by multiple news outlets, including CBS News and 9News, appears to contradict that assertion.
The video shows Peters pulling a cart through a doorway before another inmate approaches and grabs the other side of the cart. The door temporarily obscured part of her.
Then Peters emerged from the doorway, seemingly wrap her hand around the prisoner’s neck. She appeared to say something to the prisoner before pushing her away.
The Colorado Department of Corrections also disputes Peters’ team’s assertion that she was injured and is currently being punished.
no one InjuriedA department spokesperson said the incident is under investigation, KDVR reported.
“The prisoner is not here solitary confinementbut after the incident, they were moved to another housing area,” the spokesperson told 9News. “La Vista Correctional Facility does not use solitary confinement. ”
Representatives for the department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. independent.
This isn’t the first time Peters has gotten into a physical altercation on camera. A 2022 video appears to show her kick the police who tried to arrest her.
Peters became the focus of Donald Trump and MAGA supporters after she was convicted on election-related charges, with the president repeatedly calling for her release.
From 2018 to 2023, she served as Mesa County Clerk, overseeing elections. In 2021, state officials launched an investigation into her after sensitive voting records were exposed online.
Prosecutors allege Peters granted unauthorized access to voting equipment to individuals related to Covered Personnel during a software update Mike LindellCEO of MyPillow and supporter of 2020 election fraud claims. In 2024, a jury found Peters guilty of 10 criminal charges, including official misconduct in the first degree and failure to comply with Secretary of State requirements.
“Today’s sentencing is a warning to others that they will face severe consequences if they attempt to illegally tamper with our voting procedures or election systems,” Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said at the time.
Peters has pleaded not guilty, maintaining her innocence and telling the court she was trying to serve her county by rooting out fraud. No evidence of widespread election fraud was found in Colorado or other states.
In 2024, she was sentenced to nine years in prison.
In December, Trump, who had long claimed without evidence that the 2020 election was “stolen,” pardoned Peters, but the pardon was invalid because she faced state charges. He has since posted multiple times on social media about Peters, calling for her release.
“God bless Tina Peters, who is 73 years old and has been incarcerated in a maximum security prison in Colorado for two of nine years and is sick because’crime‘Trying to stop massive voter fraud in her state,” he wrote in The Truth Society on New Year’s Eve.
Earlier this month, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, described Peter’s nine-year sentence as “cruel” and said he would assess her case. Still, he refused to give in automatically to the president’s demands.
“You can’t give the president any room in this matter,” Polis told CBS News last week. “You look at leniency based on the merits of the case. You have a nonviolent, first-time offender, elderly person. On the other hand, does she accept full responsibility for her crime? We don’t look at that in isolation.”
Judge Matthew Barrett said during his sentencing hearing in 2024 that Peters had shown no remorse.
“You’re no hero,” he said. “you Abuse of powerand you are a charlatan who was and still is using your previous office position to peddle snake oil that has been proven time and time again to be garbage. “