Leaked Footage, Coordinated Smear
On WarRoom, Steve Bannon and Apollo Pappas break down leaked prison footage being used to discredit Tina Peters while her appeal exposes serious prosecutorial failures.
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Aired on January 20, 2026. Transcript begins below and may contain minor errors.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Apollo, you run Tina Peters’ site. You do the show for her while she’s incarcerated. Just give us an assessment. Last we, we’ve been totally blocked out by the California Bureau of Prisons and Polis and all this.
Um, you know, Jena Griswold, that entire crowd. Yet they leaked last night, I think local TV stations, some of the footage, at least it looks like some of the footage from a Colorado prison. What’s your assessment of that? We’re going to play it when we come back so people can see it in its entirety. What’s your assessment, sir? What’s going on?
APOLLO PAPPAS (GUEST): Well, first of all, it’s fascinating that 9 News, which is a lefty news outlet that likes to hate on Tina Peters and anyone related to election fraud or President Trump, got the footage before Tina’s own attorneys.
I did just actually get off with Tina and her attorneys, though. They’re on a video conference. So she gave me a play by play.
When people watch the video, just understand there’s a moment just before on camera, what it appears and what the news is trying to create is the idea that Tina just charged out of the closet at this inmate.
You can see that there’s a moment where the inmate lunges. And I just heard from Tina’s own words that when that inmate approached the closet that she was filling up this reservoir in, the inmate says, you disrespected me, and starts essentially heckling her.
And Tina says, it’s all right. It’s not a big deal. Calm down. And then the inmate lunges, actually strikes at Tina. And after that point, Tina comes out.
At that point, you can see Tina’s left arm is already grabbing the inmate’s right arm. So contact was made off camera. And the news is, of course, using it to make Tina Peters look like an aggressor. But that’s no surprise. They’ve done everything that they can to slander her and the actions that she took regarding the image in Colorado.
But regarding the charges and the statements that have come out, and there you can see it on screen.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Apollo, here’s what, let’s bring Apollo in. Can we play the clip? Can you walk us through the clip? Because there’s no, there’s no, there’s no sound. Just walk.
This is the women’s prison, medium security. I guess it was high security because it’s the only medium security prison for women in Colorado. Can you walk us through what we’re seeing here, sir? Let’s go ahead and play.
APOLLO PAPPAS (GUEST): Sure. So here you can see Tina is performing essentially porter duty, and she’s bringing this, it’s a cooling unit, over to this maintenance closet so that she can fill it up. There’s a water reservoir.
So you’ll see her open the door to this closet and bring the unit in there. When she opens the door, she is pulling the unit in to make sure it’s clearing the door.
So in a few seconds, you will see the inmate walk up to the door, and Tina’s head is between that and the door closest to the camera.
Right here, the unit approaches and starts saying, "You’re disrespecting me.” And right before she comes out, you can very clearly see that the inmate lunges in, pushing off her back foot and striking at Tina.
So Tina tried to calm the situation down. She pushed her out. Her left arm was restraining the inmate’s right hand that she was striking her with, and the other arm was pushing her back.
Once she calmed down, Tina disengaged and walked away.
So they’re trying to say that this was an assault and that Tina was clearly the aggressor, but truly it’s just an unfortunate camera angle. And the news is going to do exactly what they do. They’re going to try to paint Tina as the aggressor and discredit her, especially on the heels of the very damning, in many ways, appellate hearing that just happened regarding her prosecution.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Okay. So tell me about the appellate hearing about the prosecution. This is where Polis has talked about some sort of clemency because of the over the top nature of the charges and what her sentence was.
Now you’re in an appellate court. Apollo, take a second to walk through that.
APOLLO PAPPAS (GUEST): Polis has said that the sentencing was extreme. Anyone with a pulse and an IQ over 50 could tell you that, given what happened in the case.
But very serious issues were raised by the appellate judges. And in their own words, they described very clearly the jury being mis instructed, charges being read to the jury and presented in court as misdemeanors but charged as felonies.
Colorado’s attorney tried to defend the idea that you could be tried on one charge and convicted on another if the charges fit. First Amendment issues. Tina’s inability to speak to her intent, which is important because it is not only part of the felony charge, part of the language, but also because it was included in sentencing to censor concurrently to this massive sentence.
So there are multiple issues raised in that hearing that should constitute a mistrial.
Tina Peters Prison Footage Breakdown
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Apollo, give me just a minute or two on what we need to do on this Tina Peters case. Because clearly they’ve never released anything. They keep everything silent.
As soon as they get some video that’s kind of hard to see what’s going on, they leak it to these liberal progressive TV stations in Denver, and they want to bury Tina Peters.
What they want to do, remember, is bring additional charges against Tina Peters and keep her in prison for 20 years. They want Tina Peters to die in prison, like they wanted Trump to die in prison.
Apollo Pappas, your thoughts, sir.
APOLLO PAPPAS (GUEST): Yeah, you’re absolutely right. First of all, everyone just bear in mind, in real time, you have a hearing that shows on several points, each one taken separately, that her prosecution and her convictions should have been the result of a mistrial.
They clearly were, if you listen to the testimony and the questioning of the appellate judges. I think it’s going to be exceptionally difficult for them to rule on anything else.
They could potentially rule on resentencing, but even that I think would be a travesty of justice.
If you listen to that hearing and understand her case, it’s clear that what really happened is Tina Peters is an egregious victim of the weaponization of government, second perhaps only to President Trump and a few others.
On top of that, there is testimony from herself, and a lot of details from violations of rights, as well as administrative regulations within Limonita that have been handed off to the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
So there’s a lot going on.
STEVE BANNON (HOST): Yes, sir. We want to have you back on to go into detail.
Right now, where does the audience go to get all this information? What’s the website? How do they get the show? How do they get more access to you?
APOLLO PAPPAS (GUEST): TinaPeters.us for everything Tina Peters. For the show, where you can donate. She certainly needs help on her legal defense. She has a lot of bills.
There are several tracks that are going to be very time consuming and very costly.
You can follow me at Apollo Pappas on X, and I do my best to update on Tina Peters as much as I can there.
But TinaPeters.us is the place to be.
Free Tina Peters this is just bullshit. To question an election is not a crime. Every Politician that held office through 2020 election should be investigated on dereliction of duty. Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado every state should verify 2020. There is the proof Trump should get 3 terms he won 3.
Fucking criminal prison system. Why hasn’t she been released??