Joe Rogan Brutally Sticks It Straight To Trump During Live Interview
Joe Rogan and former President Donald Trump shared a friendly exchange in their three-hour interview on Friday, with the host generally showing agreement with his guest.
At Rogan’s prompting, the former president discussed his view that the 2020 election was "rigged" against him, a topic they delved into over two hours into episode #2219 of The Joe Rogan Experience.
“I wanna talk about 2020 because you said over and over again that you were robbed in 2020,” Rogan said. “How do you think you were robbed?”
This question led to the following conversation:
TRUMP: That election was so crooked, it was the most crooked election.
ROGAN: Ok, but give me some examples of how.
TRUMP: Well, let’s start, let’s start at the top and the easy ones. They were supposed to get legislative approval to do the things they did, and they didn’t get it in many cases, They didn’t get it.
ROGAN: What things?
TRUMP: Anything.
ROGAN: Legislative approval of?
TRUMP: Like for extensions of the voting, for voting earlier. All this different things By law, they had to get legislative approvals. You don’t have to go any further than that. If you take a look at Wisconsin, they virtually admitted that the election was rigged, robbed, and stolen. They wouldn’t give access in certain areas to the ballots because the ballots weren’t signed. They weren’t originals. They were– we could go into this stuff. We could go into the ballots, or we could go into the overall. I’ll give you another way.
ROGAN: Are you gonna present this ever?
TRUMP: Uh.
ROGAN: Do you think, like–
TRUMP: Let me give you just one more. Fifty-one intelligence agents come up that the laptop was from Russia. It turned out to be totally false.
The former president then brought up the controversy around Hunter Biden's laptop, noting that fifty-one former U.S. intelligence officials had labeled the story as having "all the classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation operation" ahead of the 2020 election. Ultimately, the laptop was found to be authentic. Trump claimed that the confusion around the laptop story was a decisive factor in President Joe Biden’s victory.
After his loss, Trump attempted to change the election outcomes in states he didn’t win, pressuring officials in those areas, but his efforts to alter the results were unsuccessful. Consequently, Trump now faces federal criminal charges in the District of Columbia and state criminal charges in Georgia. He has pled not guilty to all charges.
It appears that Trump’s interview with Rogan ran longer than expected, as he arrived several hours late for a rally in Traverse City, Michigan, on Friday evening.