Joe Rogan Argues Establishment Used Pizzagate Shooting to Distract From ‘Bananas’ Podesta Emails, Turn It Into ‘A Kook Thing’

Joe Rogan argued that establishment media and Democrats used the Pizzagate shooting in 2016 to “put a halt” to public interest in then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, which were published by WikiLeaks.

Pizzagate, which gained traction during the 2016 election, alleged that top Democratic officials were running a child trafficking ring out of Washington, D.C. pizzeria Comet Ping Pong, and were using words like “pizza” and “hotdogs” as code. The theory led to a real-world incident when a man fired a rifle inside Comet Ping Pong in December 2016, claiming he was there to “self-investigate.”

Law enforcement dismissed the conspiracy, but during Wednesday’s ranging Joe Rogan Experience podcast with YouTuber and independent journalist Ian Carroll, the host insisted that the shooting conveniently shut down what he believed were legitimate inquiries.

As Carroll discussed long-standing claims about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, Rogan pivoted to the Pizzagate shooting:

When they had that guy come in and fire off that shot, I felt like that was a great way to put a halt to all the looking into the Podesta emails, because then all of a sudden it’s a kook thing. Now it’s a crazy person and a dangerous person because he’s got a gun. [Mocking media and establishment voices] ‘You’re causing dangerous people to take their guns…’

Because if you read those emails, those emails are bananas. They are talking about young kids who are going to be coming to a party to have fun, they’re talking about pizza and hotdogs…

Carroll agreed, bringing up an older debunked claim that former President Barack Obama flew “sixty five thousand dollars’ worth of hot dogs flown from Chicago for a White House party.” That claim was based on an email from an employee for intelligence company Stratfor, published in a 2012 WikiLeaks release.

“The whole thing is, like, very weird,” Rogan added.

Continuing on topic, Carroll referenced Instagram posts from James Alefantis, the Washington D.C. pizzeria owner, which he said had been scrubbed from the social media platform but which he claimed was available on some archive websites and showed “photos of children with their arms taped to tables.” He added that Alefantis’s followers showed similar “dark” interests.

Carroll doubled down on his belief that powerful figures manipulated the public’s perception of Pizzagate.

“There’s so much more ripe, clear evidence that’s way more powerful,” he said.

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