Joe Rogan revealed multiple revelations convinced him to conduct his last-minute interview with President Donald Trump last year during a recent interview
Rogan joined Gary Brecka on The Ultimate Human podcast this week, where Brecka noted that Rogan had initially expressed hesitation about inviting Trump onto his podcast. Rogan ended up interviewing Trump on his Joe Rogan Experience podcast the month before the 2024 election, and then endorsed the Republican candidate.
“There was a bunch of things that happened. First of all, there was the lawfare. There was these lawsuits that they were trying to pin on him. They were trying to convict him and turn him into a felon and they were doing it so blatantly and obviously, the case with the bookkeeping error or the bookkeeping, whatever it was, the misdemeanor that they had charged him with 34 felonies for, which isn’t even a felony. It’s a misdemeanor,” Rogan explained.
“It should have been a campaign contribution,” Brecka added.
“Exactly,” Rogan agreed.
In 2024, Trump was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on more than 30 felony counts for falsifying business records to conceal a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star he allegedly had an affair with. Trump has denied the affair ever happened and maintained he did not have direct knowledge of the payment.
Rogan argued he saw implications far beyond just Trump in watching his legal troubles.
“People were cheering
The podcaster and comedian pointed to the attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024 as the big reason he chose to invite Trump for an interview, saying the shooting could have been “Lee Harvey Oswald 2.0.”
“When they tried to kill him, all those things, I was like, yeah. But the big one, the Pennsylvania one, was like, holy shit. And then the fact that they cremated that kid 10 days later and then you find out he used to be in a Black Rock commercial and you’re like, what?” Rogan said. “And then his apartment’s professionally scrubbed, there’s no silverware in it. And you don’t hear a peep out of it. There’s no press conference. There is no, like, this is what we know about the case. This is what happened. This what radicalized him. Nothing.”
Rogan pointed to coverage of Trump and backlash against the president as “gross” and “anti-American” and part of the reason he wanted to have
“There’s no real conversations with him where you’re just treating him like a human being. Like everything, he’s being grilled and then everything’s taken out of context and I’m seeing them being taken out of context on the campaign trail,” he said. “And like, it was just gross. It was just so anti-American.”
Rogan has been supportive of the president, but grown more critical in recent weeks, hitting him recently on the Epstein Files fallout and also pushing back against “insane” ICE raids that are part of the president’s mass deportation effort.
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