Tina Peters is OUT of prison: ‘It’s been quite the ordeal’
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who served 606 days in prison before being released on a commutation from Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, spoke out on Monday and vowed to continue to fight to ‘clear my name’
by Summer Lane | June 1, 2026
Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison for allegedly breaching election equipment in 2021, has been released.
Peters received a commutation from Colorado Democrat Governor Jared Polis in May, following a high-pressure campaign from President Donald Trump and a national cadre of supporters who believed the former country official, also a 70-year-old Gold Star mother, was overbroadly punished.
According to The New York Times, Peters’ sentence was significantly lightened by Gov. Polis’s commutation, which allowed her to get out of prison on parole on June 1, following just less than two years in jail.
During her first interview post-prison on Monday, Peters told Steve Bannon on “War Room” that she had been through “quite the ordeal.”
“After 606 days in prison, it’s been quite the ordeal,” she said. “But you know, I really want to thank God for His faithfulness, and getting me through it, and you know, it’s been I think, probably for me, Steve, to impress upon every person out there, how hard it is to lose your liberty – how easy it is to lose your liberty, but how hard it is to endure it.”
Peters also thanked those who had long advocated for her release.
“I’m so grateful to the supporters out there that have stood with me, you know, my close circle,” she said.
Last year, President Trump granted a federal pardon to Peters, but the situation remained tense, as she was convicted on state charges and therefore remained incarcerated.
“Tina is sitting in a Colorado prison for the ‘crime’ of demanding Honest Elections,” the president wrote in December 2025. “Today I am granting Tina a full Pardon for her attempts to expose Voter Fraud in the Rigged 2020 Presidential Election!”
Peters said she would focus on her health and family now that she is out of prison. She also vowed to “fight to clear my name.”
“I still have a fight to go…even though Governor Polis reduced my sentence from nine years to four and a half years, I still have a fight to clear my name and bring out the truth of why they came after me the way they did,” Peters told Bannon. “So, it’s still a long road, I’m going to spend the next few weeks regaining my health and just being in with loved ones and family, and it’s a miracle – it really is.”
