Tina Peters Voting Machines and the Prison Standoff With Colorado

Tina Peters voting machines are at the center of a national election integrity fight, as attorney John Case explains why Colorado refused to honor President Trump’s pardon and why Peters remains imprisoned.

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This clip aired on WarRoom’s Saturday morning show on December 13, 2025. Transcript begins below (lightly edited for clarity; may contain minor errors).

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Kind of an emergency came up on the case. Anyway, walk us through where we stand. You see on media they’re just going after this nonstop and saying President Trump did this. That part is irrelevant. I think it’s part of a broader plan that you guys are working on. But can you just get us up to speed first on where we stand with the case, and particularly Tina’s, how actually Tina is doing in prison.

JOHN CASE (GUEST): Sure. Thanks for having me, Steve. So I’m the Denver lawyer for Tina, and Peter Ticktin, as you know, is one of the national lawyers. So yesterday we received a copy of President Trump’s pardon, and we drove down to the Limon Correctional Facility in Pueblo. We went up to the door. I arrived about ten minutes before six.

When I got out of the car and walked to the front door, there were three DOC, Department of Corrections officers wearing camos who greeted me, asked me who I was and what I was doing. I told him, my name’s John Case. I’m here to serve you a copy of President Trump’s pardon of Tina Peters, and I’m asking you to deliver her to me right now so that I can take her home.

And he said, just a minute, and then a woman came out and said, my name’s Michelle Smith, and I’m the assistant director of the Department of Corrections. Then she pulled out a piece of paper and read me a prepared statement that was typed out on the paper. It said, essentially, that Trump’s pardon was not going to be recognized by the state of Colorado because he didn’t have authority to pardon Tina Peters.

And then I said, well, are you asking me to leave? And she said yes. And so I thanked her and shook her hand. And I went over to the car. We waited another about forty minutes.

And in the meantime, Peter Ticktin sent Michelle, came back to see if you guys changed your mind. And they laughed and said, no, we’re not changing our minds here. We’re all put away for the night, so you can leave.

So at that point, we left and drove back to Denver.

So we believe that President Trump’s pardon is valid. Tina was performing a federal duty when she preserved election records before the Secretary of State destroyed them. And the Secretary of State destroyed them in Mesa County and in all counties in Colorado where Dominion voting systems are used, which is sixty two out of sixty four counties. And what was destroyed were the digital records of the 2020 election. Federal law, 52 U.S.C. 20701, requires county clerks to preserve election records for twenty two months after every federal election.

So Tina was doing her job to preserve the records. She was the only clerk in Colorado who did that and then provided a forensic image for experts to analyze.

And the experts who have looked at this image that Tina preserved say that it is Dominion software used throughout the United States and throughout Colorado. It is a variation of the Smartmatic software that was used to rig elections in Venezuela.

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