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Joe Rogan has questioned the narrative surrounding the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s residence in Mar-a-Lago during an interview with Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon.
“I mean like, legally, what did they find? And is he actually in trouble? Because I think the goal was to try to knock him out of the 2024 elections, right? By trying him for crimes. What did he do?” Rogan asked Dillon.
Dillon responded by saying that the Bee’s “take” on the raid was that it was “more of a PR stunt” than anything else.
“I think they were just trying to send a message,” Dillon said. “I think they were trying to say, ‘Hey, we’re still here. We’re still watching you.'”
Rogan agreed, saying that it was “weird” that the FBI would raid Trump’s home while he was in Florida and not New York, where he resides most of the time.
“It does seem like they’re trying to do something to him,” Rogan said. “I don’t know what it is, but it’s weird.”
Rogan made the comments on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience while discussing the news that the FBI had raided Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen’s office.
“I think the problem is having it, right?” Rogan said. “Because if you have it in an unsecure location, meaning unsecure, in terms of the government’s protection, it’s not locked up in archives, it’s not in a place that’s very difficult to access, you have control personally over the access to something that’s top secret.”
“If that’s the case, then that’s a problem. Because that safe can be opened, people can get in there, people can get the code, they can copy it, they can send it to China,” Rogan added.
Rogan also speculated that the FBI’s raid may have been an attempt to “knock him out of the 2024 elections.”
“I think they’re trying to take him down,” Rogan said. “I think they’re trying to knock him out of the 2024 elections.”
Rogan’s comments come amid mounting speculation that Trump may run for president again in 2024.
In recent weeks, Trump has hinted that he is considering a 2024 run, and he has already begun to hold campaign-style rallies across the country.
Trump has not yet formally announced his plans for 2024, but he is widely expected to do so if he decides to run.
Rogan continued with his criticisms: “I think both things are valid. I think, if they’re just doing that, and they’re using the FBI in a way that they would never use it against Hillary Clinton, and they’re going after him in a way they would never go after Ghislaine Maxwell’s client list, then we have a real conversation. But that doesn’t mean that there shouldn’t be a real conversation about should someone have access.”
“You’re not above the law, and you can’t decide that you’re not going to follow the law because you know better. And I don’t know if that’s the case.”
Rogan’s comments come after the FBI raided Trump’s home and office last week, reportedly seizing documents related to his dealings with Russia. The raid was condemned by many of Trump’s supporters, who accused the FBI of targeting the former president.
