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 shit? 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.
Rogan didn’t seem to buy the Trump administration’s new stance, suggesting the president was trying to distract supporters from his campaign promises about Epstein.
“Just bomb Iran and everybody forgets. Everybody forgets about it,” Rogan said, referring to Trump’s late-June strikes on Iranian nuclear weapons facilities.
It was just the latest bone Rogan picked with Trump, whom he endorsed ahead of the election, on his podcast in recent weeks.
Earlier in July, he called the president’s ICE round-ups of illegal immigrants “insane,” and said authorities should focus on investigating dangerous criminals instead of raiding Home Depot parking lots for arrests.
“There’s two things that are insane. One is the targeting of migrant workers. Not cartel members, not gang members, not drug dealers. Just construction workers. Showing up in construction sites, raiding them. Gardeners. Like, really?” Rogan said.
He appeared to be referring to the incidents that sparked the Los Angeles protests in June, when ICE agents staked out parking lots where manual laborers gather to find work during mornings.
The Department of Homeland Security disputed Rogan’s characterization of ICE’s arrests, with a spokesperson saying “an overwhelming majority” of ICE arrestees in Trump’s crackdown had prior criminal convictions.
Rogan, whose podcast commands an audience of about 10 million listeners, has had a mixed stance on Trump.
He used to be a virulent critic of the president, but ended up endorsing him ahead of the 2024 election, saying Elon Musk’s arguments in favor of Trump convinced him.
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