Podcaster Joe Rogan pressed former President Donald Trump on Friday about his false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.
“You’ve stated time and again that you simply had been robbed in 2020,” stated Rogan, who hosts the popular and controversial “Joe Rogan Expertise.”
“How do you suppose you had been robbed?” he continued.
Trump tried to pivot.
“Nicely, what I’d somewhat do is, we’ll do it one other time,” stated the Republican, who’s now searching for to retake the White Home. “And I might usher in papers that you wouldn’t imagine. So many alternative papers. That election was so crooked. It was essentially the most crooked election.”
Rogan tried to extract extra specifics:
Rogan: OK, however give me some examples of how.
Trump: Nicely, let’s begin on the highest and the straightforward ones. They had been purported to get legislative approval to do the issues they did, they usually didn’t get it. In lots of circumstances, they didn’t get it.
Rogan: What issues?
Trump: Something.
Rogan: Legislative approval of?
Trump: Like for extensions of the voting, for voting earlier, for this — all various things. By legislation, they needed to get legislative approvals. You don’t need to go any additional than that.
Trump’s declare about legislative approvals is seemingly associated to an argument from some Republicans that state officers modified sure election procedures in 2020 with out correct authorization. In 2021, the fact-checking website PolitiFact called this a “flawed argument” in an in depth explainer on the authorized points concerned.
Chatting with Rogan, Trump went on: “In case you check out Wisconsin, they just about admitted that the election was rigged, robbed and stolen. They wouldn’t give entry in sure areas to the ballots as a result of the ballots weren’t signed. They weren’t originals. They had been — we may go into these things. We may go into the ballots, or we may go into the general.”
In 2021, a nonpartisan audit of Wisconsin’s 2020 election discovered that though some absentee ballots had solely partial witness signatures, the vote was — within the words of a GOP chief on the state Legislature’s Audit Committee — “largely secure and safe.” Solely eight ballots had been lacking a witness signature altogether, and solely three had been lacking a voter signature.
“Are you going to current this ever?” Rogan requested Trump, to which the Republican responded, “Uh.”
That trade swiftly made it into social media posts from the Democratic marketing campaign of Trump’s 2024 rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Do you suppose, like — ” Rogan then began to ask, earlier than Trump reduce him off.
“Let me offer you only one extra,” he stated. Trump then asserted that controversy round a laptop computer owned by Democrat Joe Biden’s son ― and false hypothesis by intelligence officers that tales concerning the laptop computer may very well be Russian disinformation ― considerably swayed the 2020 election in Biden’s favor.
Rogan’s three-hour dialog with Trump delayed a Michigan rally for the Republican, leaving his supporters ready within the chilly for him to look.
