Ray William Johnson: True Story Podcast - This Conspiracy Theory Destroyed Her - The Tina Peters story

Episode Date: February 2, 2025

This is the story of Tina Peters, the woman who tried to interfere with the 2020 presidential election.

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So this woman is a conspiracy theorist. And I don't know if she believes the earth is flat or whatever, but there's one conspiracy that's going to get her sent to prison for a long time. Let me explain. Now, her name is Tina, and she's a county clerk, and the person in charge of making sure every ballot in her county is counted during an election. And one day, the 2020 presidential election happens, and unfortunately for Tina, her favorite candidate doesn't win.

So, because she's a conspiracy theorist, she starts thinking the election was very. rigged and she's convinced it's some kind of deep state conspiracy. So instead of reporting her suspicions to the county attorney, Tina comes up with a shady plan to break into the voting machines in her county in order to prove her conspiracy. However, she can't just go in and access these machines alone. There are all sorts of checks and balances in place and someone else with the passwords has to be there in person for it to work. Now, there is an IT consultant who got dragged into this scheme and we'll just call him IT guy. And he has access to the

machines, but we'll get back to IT guy. So anyway, Tina really wants to get into these voting machines. And one day, she gets a hold of IT guy's security badge. And she gives that badge to another dude. A dude we'll call conspiracy turd. And so then Tina, conspiracy turd and the deputy clerk, this woman, Belinda, they all three go to the election offices. and conspiracy turd uses the security badge that they took from IT guy, and he pretends to be there on official government business. And they use that badge to access the passwords. And suddenly, they have access to the election system's hard drive.

So they get some screenshots of the data, and they copy everything onto an external drive. And by the way, all of this is very illegal, because it's election tampering. But then, allegedly, conspiracy turd takes all this voting system data and he gives it to a bunch of other conspiracy turds. And then, a few months later, some of that voting system data shows up on the internet. Passwords, videos, images for the whole world to see.

Now obviously, voting machine data is information that shouldn't be public. A big reason is because people can then use this information to then hack the voting machines. So this is a very big deal. And this sensitive information is now on the internet and pretty quickly someone alerts the secretary of state of Colorado. So then the next day, boom, the district attorney's team goes to Tina's office to investigate and they, of course, find signs of a security breach. And then, bam, the Secretary of State suspends Tina's position as county clerk. Meanwhile, the deputy clerk, Belinda, she's also suspended and barred from going into the office. But Belinda sneaks back in to, like, print some

documents or something, and boom, she gets caught and arrested. Here's her mugshot. So now, Tina and Belinda are officially barred from supervising any elections because they knowingly took voting machine data and gave it to a bunch of conspiracy theorists. But here's where the story gets out of control. A few months later, Belinda goes to trial and Tina shows up to support her. And while Tina's sitting in court, she pulls out her iPad and she starts recording. You can see her with the iPad here. There she is. And there's the iPad. Now, you're not allowed to video record a court proceeding, especially when they specifically tell you not to.

So, some people spot her recording and she gets caught and charged with contempt, and the judge issues a search warrant for that iPad. Then the next day, Tina goes to a local bagel shop, and the police show up with a search warrant for that iPad. And Tina, she is just not going to cooperate. So they handcuff her, and she is. not happy. Ma'am.

Let go with me. You let go with me. Let's go of me. Let's go of me. She even tries to kick the officers as they handcuff her. And let's see that again in slow motion. But ultimately they do get the iPad from her and they bring her outside and she fights them the whole way. Let go of me.

You're hurting me. And I'm going to show all the bruises that she put on me. If you're not going to cooperate, you'll be charged with obstructing. obstructing. Let go of me. You understand that. You like go to me now. But Tina is still not going to cooperate. Let go of me. Okay, then stand up like an adult. Shut up. What an a little thing to say to me. What, what an a s thing to say to me. Okay. You are under arrest. You are being searched.

And anyway, she eventually does get arrested. Here's her mugshot. Now, after she's arrested and this video goes viral, other conspiracy theorists who also think the president's her was stolen, they hear about this, and they get so mad they call 911 in Tina's county to express their outrage. I want to talk to whoever the hell put those handcuffs on that nice woman. I start on a television. I can't believe it. I'm a Colorado resident. And it's not just one angry 911 call.

It's so many calls that it jams the 911 lines. What they did in Tina Peters today was outrageous. When did they become a communist? So anyway, Tina gets out of jail on bond, and it appears like she does everything in her power to control the narrative and delay her trial for the election tampering. Like she fires her lawyers a bunch of times. She tries to run for Secretary of State thinking maybe getting elected into public office will help her get out of all this. But she doesn't win. And this whole time, she's still speaking publicly and insisting that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and that it's all part of some deep state conspiracy.

There's just a few of these people. that are globalists, that are Marxists, that are trying to take over our country. And her continuing to spread this misinformation like this is a violation of her bond. So then bam, she gets arrested again. Here's another mugshot. And she gets out on bail, so she's free again. But this woman is an absolute menace. Remember IT guy whose security badge she took and used to access the voting machines?

She starts trying to shift the blame off of her and onto him. and she starts publicly throwing this poor guy under the bus. He knew what was going to happen with his badge. Yes. So then police, they go and raid IT guys' family's house, and they confiscate all of his family's phones and a bunch of their electronics, and they end up getting a bunch of hate mail from random people, and then months later, the FBI raids his house a second time,

and they take the rest of their electronics. Tina is just out of control for blaming that guy. Is anyone going to stop her? Until... At some point, during all this, Deputy Clerk Belinda, she gets smart, and she decides to take a plea deal in the election tampering case. And her deal involves agreeing to testify against Tina. But Tina, she's not worried about it at all. I mean, she's still out there talking trash, speaking publicly about the case.

What do you think the chances are that you are in prison a year or two from now? Well, I'll tell you, if I thought I was going to prison, I would probably be on the beach somewhere. So then, after three years of court delays, the election tampering case finally goes to trial. And of course, Tina can't help herself. She's got to speak up in court. And she argues that she shouldn't be sent to prison for election tampering? Because one of the reasons she gives is that she thinks she shouldn't be sent to prison because the prison beds aren't up to her standard. I have health problems that would not be treatable in the Department of Corrections.

First of all, I need a magnetic mattress. But the judge, he is just not having it, and he lets her know that she is full of shit. You are no hero, you abused your position, and you're a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that's been proven to be junk time and time again. So then Tina's found guilty and she's ultimately sentenced to nine years in prison for election tampering. And after all that, I'm sure she still thinks she does. Didn't do anything wrong.