Joe Rogan on Tuesday joined the chorus of voices in the MAGA sphere who have gone after Attorney General Pam Bondi in recent days over the Department of Justice‘s handling of its findings in the investigation into the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Rogan ripped Bondi on Tuesday’s episode of his show, The Joe Rogan Experience, using her own words against her.
“Why’d they say that?” he said. “Didn’t Pam Bondi say that?”
Newsweek reached out to the DOJ for comment via email on Tuesday.
Why It Matters
President Donald Trump‘s base revolted after the DOJ released a two-page memo last week concluding that Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019 and that the government was not in possession of a list of Epstein’s clients.
The memo confirmed previous findings by local and federal investigations and threw cold water on years of conspiracy theories and public statements from Trump’s base and high-ranking Trump administration officials who said they would release Epstein’s “client list.”
What To Know
Rogan issued a blistering rebuke of Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, highlighting the contrast between last week’s memo and Bondi and Patel’s public statements preceding the memo.
“They’ve … got videotape and all of a sudden they don’t,” Rogan said to guest and fellow podcaster Danny Jones. “You know, you had the director of the FBI on this show saying, ‘If there was … nothing you’re looking for is on those tapes.’ Like, what?”
“Why’d they say there was thousands of hours of tapes of people doing horrible s***?” Rogan pressed. “Why’d they say that? Didn’t Pam Bondi say that?”
Rogan was referring to Bondi’s claim in June that the FBI was reviewing “tens of thousands of videos” of Epstein “with children or child porn.”
A week after that comment, Patel appeared on Rogan’s show and contradicted Bondi, saying the FBI was not in possession of any such evidence.
On Tuesday’s episode of his show, Rogan read aloud from an Associated Press article detailing Bondi’s comments.
“‘The comment, made to reporters at the White House days after a similar remark to a stranger with a hidden camera, raised the stakes for President Donald Trump’s administration to prove it has in its possession previously unseen compelling evidence,’” Rogan said, quoting from the AP story.
“Or,” he said, turning back to Jones, “just bomb Iran and everybody forgets. Everybody forgets about it.”
Trump has rallied to Bondi’s defense as she faces calls to resign over the memo. He also told his supporters to move on from Epstein, even though people in his orbit—including Bondi, Patel and Vice President JD Vance—had spent years clamoring for the release of the Epstein files and accusing the Biden administration of a cover-up.
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