Posted on 07/15/2025 7:27:41 PM PDT by thegagline
Joe Rogan used his latest podcast episode to weigh in on the Epstein files controversy amid public uproar over the Department of Justice’s probe into the late pedophile and his associates.
The podcast giant lambasted the Trump administration’s announcement that there was never a list or footage revealing clients of the high-flying sex pest.
“They’ve got videotape and all a sudden they don’t,” Rogan, 57, said on the latest episode of his podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” released Tuesday.
“You had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was [a videotape], nothing you’re looking for is on those tapes,'” Rogan added, referring to Director Kash Patel’s appearance on the show in June.
“Like, what? Why’d they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible s–t? Why’d they say that? Didn’t Pam Bondi say that?”
Rogan was referring to comments Attorney General Pam Bondi made on July 1 — just days before the Department of Justice announced there was no “Epstein List” or incriminating footage of the disgraced financier’s associates — in which she told reporters the FBI was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with children or child porn.”
And months earlier, Bondi intimated that the supposed Epstein List was on her desk waiting for review — though she later clarified that there was an Epstein investigation file ready for her review, not the so-called list at the center of countless conspiracy theories.
The turnaround comes after President Trump spent months talking about plans to release everything the government had on Epstein and his associates — even publishing “The Epstein Files: Phase 1” to great fanfare in February. Next to nothing new was revealed in those files.
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Epstein is getting the Streisand effect
right, mitchell and bill richardson’s names came out. mitchell was already dead then, but having a senate majority leader on a small section of the list should have sent alarm bells screaming in any thinking person.
Oh yeah—thanks for reminding me that Bill Richardson was on the list.
He was a heavy hitter—a good man for any intelligence agency to have in their blackmail portfolio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Richardson
Trump made it worse by say they were fake twice and for people to ignore it. He also punted this to Bondi instead of being a leader. Making Bondi make a call on releasing. Bondi will do nothing because Trump said it is fake. She changed her story already and ruins her credibility by switching again. It aldo hurts Trump. Thus make it worse than what is now.
I agree 100%.
I wonder how many younger people voted for Trump because Elon was absolutely dedicated to Trump on the campaign trail.
He also did one hell of a job with the DOGE project.
I mostly admire him for taking care of all the legal fees for Tommy Robinson, and
bringing the stranded astronauts back from the space station.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much to be thrown under the bus.
Oh but Dershowitz said no one currently in office is involved. Do you not trust him? (I do not. I want to see the evidence.)
Many conservatives are conspiracy theorists because we have had so many comspirscy theories proven to be correct.
Thank you for summing so much up. Praying for him. May God recover and recompense him for his sacrifices…and may all this ultimately to Musk to place fill faith in Christ and the world to come.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 16:18
There is plenty or ego to go around, but I worry Trump, if not careful, may be most subject to the pride being described above.
So now we will see so many people here turn on Rogan, I guess. Great when he helped Trump, but now that he won’t just suck down what he’s told, he’s not useful and will be dropped faster than a freshly made San Franscisco street turd.
Remember its Uniparty now. So yes its democrats plus gop leadership and the junior suckups.
Also, when you care about Trump doing well and doing the right things, you don’t just sit on your hands quietly and let himdo stuff you think is damaging. You are critical and you say something, as a warning or correction, not thatyou’ve abandoned him. You actually want him to change direction and get it right. Its part of having a conscience you try to give allies and friends warnings when you believe they are screwing up.
Too many on our side act like little socialists and immediately frame this as betrayal or abandoning Trump when its the furthest thing from the truth. And I am not gonna let that bs reframing libel go unanswered.
Its gotten bigger becauseit continues to be mishandled. More people are now more concerned about the mishandling than the issue itself. The lying. The downplaying. The demonizing of people by the admin who want the evidence released like they were told it would. Its not good, and its made the issue way bigger because they fumbled it, and are still fumbling it. It reminds me of how Clinton progressivley made things worse and worse with the Lewinski scandal until he got grilled under oath. People just keep doubling down on fail until something small becomes so ething enormous, because of how they mishandle it and kep doing so.
Yes, prayers are needed greatly right now.
How do you know for sure there are current videos of the actual acts of sex with minors? I mean literal videos of people other than Epstein diddling minors. Not a guest list, implications, circumstantial, etc.
So far the admin has not said that is the case. They said there were videos but didn’t say there were people on it besides Epstein.
All I’m saying is I want actual facts if anything is released not guest lists
He’s valued. He hurt himself with impeachment talk and 3rd party BS that will only help Democrats. It’s funny you Trump haters say to be critical of Trump but want allegiance to Musk who wasn’t elected to anything
Trump was winning without Musk. Musk didn’t jump on until he had a good idea of that. Go join the 4 percent America party run by a S. African and his Indian tech buddies
It’s not about being critical it’s using critical thinking and what you know about Trump after 10 years of politics. If you think he is a lying rapist pedophile then join the Left they have always said that.
If you believe that he genuinely has the best interests of America at heart than you have to allow for other reasons why he does things sometimes that don’t seem apparent at the time. I don’t think he is dumb or naive as I assume you don’t also. He knows Epstein is an issue with a good portion of his base and it won’t go away by him saying that. There is no way he doesn’t know that, he is a populist after all. He does have political capital and isn’t running again so he can take a popularity hit if he has a good enough reason.
I don’t know what that reason is at the moment. I do NOT think it’s because he is one of the pedophiles. If he was, there is zero chance the Dems wouldn’t have got that out there when they had control. None. They were willing to literally kill him they definitely would have found a way to leak proof of him with underage girls.
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