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Joe Rogan denies that he “f***ed over” the Kamala Harris campaign in favour of Donald Trump appearing on his podcast.
The Joe Rogan Experience host detailed for the first time why the former U.S. vice-president did not appear on his show following reports that her team was misled by his people.
They claimed the Oct. 25 Harris campaign stop in Houston, Texas, featuring Beyonce was created solely to put the Democratic candidate near Austin, where Rogan films his podcast.
But Team Kamala said Rogan’s people later told them the date “was blocked out as a personal day,” which ended up being the day the podcaster interviewed Trump.
Rogan, however, insisted the sequence of events were very different and called out the authors for not getting his side of the story.
“This whole idea that we f***ed her over and we f***ed her over for Trump — incorrect, just not true,” Rogan said.
“One of the things they said that wasn’t true was that we lied about the day that Trump was coming on, and we just didn’t (say) that Trump was coming on.”
He went on to detail that “Trump was really easy to book. Like, super easy. We offered one day. He said, ‘Yes.’ That was it… It was so easy. So he was already booked.”
The Harris campaign, on the other hand, “never committed to doing the show,” he revealed.
“They said that the reason why they did the Beyonce event in Houston was so that they could be in Texas to do my show. They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true,” Rogan insisted.
Rogan said he had grand plans for his podcast.
“I wanted to release both of (the interviews) on the same day. (That was) my goal,” he told guest YouTuber Dan Richards.
“I even offered to do it late that [same] night,” Rogan recalled. “So the night that Trump came on, I’m like, ‘What if we do her when she’s done in [Houston], if she came here?’ But no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important, because they keep pretending that I lied.”
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Rogan said Harris’ campaign kept offering for him to go Washington to do a show, but it could only be for an hour, tops, but the podcast host wanted the interview done in his studio, saying it had to be “the actual real show” and not “some fake version where I’m sitting in a conference room.”
Rogan also believes “a bunch of wokesters” on Harris’ staff were against her doing his show.
“Then, once Trump did it, [the interview] had this huge response,” he noted.
“I think then it was like, ‘What the f*** are we doing? He just did it. Got 50 f***ing million views. This is so stupid. Why didn’t we do it?’”
Rogan made sure to add, “We have all the receipts, by the way.”
He said: “I think it’s someone trying to cover their a** for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect.”