Stew Peters is known for promoting COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracy theories, as well as antisemitic and white supremacist beliefs.
36 Facts About Stew Peters
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Stew Peters's show routinely features conspiracy theories about governmental organizations, such as the CDC.
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Stew Peters's guests have included established proponents of conspiracy theories such as Paul Gosar and Mark Meadows.
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In 2022, Peters released the anti-vaccine film Died Suddenly, and a subsequent 2023 film titled Final Days.
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Tyrel invited Stew Peters to stay at the governor's residence in St Paul during filming.
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Stew Peters went home to Apple Valley, a suburb 16 miles away, and later moved into the guest room of the Governor's Residence for several weeks, until he was evicted by the state troopers providing security for the governor.
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Stew Peters started moonlighting as a bounty hunter after he met someone in the business.
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Stew Peters said he headed a bounty hunting agency named Twin Cities Apprehension Team for several years.
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In 2015, Minnesota Law was changed to limit what bounty hunters can wear and drive, a change apparently aimed specifically at Stew Peters, who dressed to resemble law enforcement officers.
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On May 30,2017, Stew Peters' agency was involved in a shootout that left two agents and the fugitive dead.
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Peters launched The Stew Peters Show as a podcast in 2020, commenting on criminality and related topics, giving air time to figures of the American far-right and the anti-vaccination movement.
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Stew Peters uses his show to initiate or amplify a large number of rumors and fabrications widely known to be disinformation.
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Stew Peters uses violent rhetoric against marginalized groups, most notably Jews, Hindus, and the LGBT community.
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Stew Peters promotes concepts linked to QAnon and white supremacy, and has expressed support for Pizzagate and flat earth conspiracy theories.
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Stew Peters interviewed several high-ranking figures of the Make America Great Again wing of the Republican Party, such as President Trump's nominee for Director of the FBI Kash Patel, who appeared multiple times.
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Stew Peters spoke at the 2022 America First Political Action Conference, where he called for the murders of Anthony Fauci, and Vernon Jones.
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In February 2023, following the Ohio train derailment, a tweet by Stew Peters claiming that "journalists covering the story have been arrested" and dead fish and cattle were being found "as far as 100 miles away from the site" went viral, attracting about half a million likes.
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Experts have explained why this statement by Stew Peters is clearly incorrect.
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Stew Peters has called for the execution of Hunter Biden, Anthony Fauci, Catholic Charities workers, Taylor Swift, and Travis Kelce for reasons ranging from Kelce promoting COVID-19 vaccines and the Catholic Charities workers aiding migrants to Biden being a "presidential failson" and Swift promoting "witchcraft".
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Stew Peters has promoted many white supremacist and antisemitic conspiracy theories and talking points.
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Stew Peters has referred to Judaism as a "death cult built on the blood of murdered babies".
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Stew Peters claimed that the Titan submersible implosion was intentionally caused by the Federal Reserve to prevent investigations into the Titanic, and agreed with a guest who blamed the Rothschild family and claimed they control the Federal Reserve.
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Stew Peters has repeatedly promoted the white genocide and Great Replacement conspiracy theories.
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Stew Peters has hosted noted white supremacists and antisemites such as Nick Fuentes, Peter Brimelow, Cynthia McKinney, and Steven Anderson on his show.
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In January 2024, Stew Peters published a series of tweets insulting Martin Luther King Jr.
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On September 13,2024, Stew Peters posted on X a photo of himself holding a copy of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, with the caption "Visionary leadership".
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From early in the pandemic, Stew Peters joined other conspiracy theorists in peddling disinformation about COVID vaccines and public health measures.
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In 2022, Stew Peters started to produce long videos: These Little Ones, promoting the QAnon conspiracy about elites kidnapping children to drink their blood; Watch the Water, which claims that COVID-19 vaccines are derived from snake venom in order to transform people into "a hybrid of Satan", and Died Suddenly, which promotes misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and Great Reset conspiracy theories.
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Stew Peters publishes the videos on Rumble, using Twitter and Facebook to amplify their distribution.
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On May 30,2023, Stew Peters released a film titled Final Days on Twitter.
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Stew Peters endorsed the unsuccessful candidate Kandiss Taylor in the Republican primary for the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election, and supported Janice McGeachin and Wendy Rogers.
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In February 2021, Stew Peters was arrested after his wife called the police, saying that he had come home drunk and started throwing things around the house.
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Stew Peters later pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct and was sentenced to probation.
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Stew Peters is being sued by the General Manager of the London Bridge Resort in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
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Cal Sheehy, who is Mayor of Lake Havasu City, alleges Stew Peters defamed him on his show in September 2022, over a drag show that was due to be held at the resort in February 2023.
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Stew Peters allegedly shared Sheehy's contact information with his viewers, which resulted in threatening calls against him.