Joe Rogan Blasts Book Suggesting He Sabotaged Kamala Harris Interview: ‘They Keep Pretending That I Lied’
Joe Rogan pushed back against claims in a new book suggesting he was partially behind why an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris on his podcast never happened.
A recently-published excerpt from Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House by NBC reporter Jonathan Allen and The Hill journalist Amie Parnes, being published April 1, indicated that Rogan helped sabotage his potential Harris interview. Rogan sat down with President Donald Trump for three hours shortly before the election, and he previously claimed talks with Harris’s camp fell apart amid negotiations on scheduling and more.
According to the book, one of the reasons the Rogan interview did not happen is that he informed Harris’s team that the October date he was interviewing Trump was a “personal day.” According to Rogan, this is not the case and he even tried to get Harris, who was visiting Texas around the same time, in on the same day as Trump in an effort to release the episodes on the same day.
“One of the things they said that weren’t true was that we lied about the day that Trump was coming on. No, we just didn’t tell you that Trump was coming on. He was already booked a long time ago,” Rogan said in a Tuesday episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
The podcaster and comedian also took issue with another claim in the book about Harris sending someone to scout his Austin location. This, he said, never happened. Trump, on the other hand, sent someone quickly and agreed to the first date Rogan offered.
“They also said that they sent someone down here to the studio to do a walkthrough of the set. That’s not true. The Trump administration did,” he said.
Rogan stressed that Harris never actually agreed to the podcast. He said even when he “entertained” her team wanting to bring him out to Washington, D.C., Rogan said he could never get Harris’s team to actually tell him she agreed or even wanted to do the podcast. He also took issue with them limiting the talk to 45 minutes to an hour.
“No one ever committed to doing it. This is really important because they keep pretending that I lied,” he said.
Rogan argued there is a wave of excuse-making at the moment because people are trying to “cover their [asses]” in light of the non-Rogan interview being seen by many critics as a misstep for Harris’s campaign.
“This whole idea that we fucked her over, and that we fucked her over for Trump — incorrect. Just not true,” Rogan said. “But I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect.”
Watch above via The Joe Rogan Experience.
