You may be shocked to hear this, but it turns out that the Kamala Harris campaign may not have been honest about something.
In a recent book, members of Kamala’s team made a number of claims about why she didn’t appear on the Joe Rogan podcast and they laid nearly all of the blame on Rogan rather than Kamala.
They made a huge mistake in doing this because Rogan has a microphone and a massive audience and he is talking about this now and setting the record straight. Did they really think he would just let this go?
The Hollywood Reporter has the story:
Joe Rogan Says Harris Campaign Lied About Being Misled by Show: “We Have the Receipts”
In Tuesday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, the top-rated podcaster took issue with reports stemming from a new book, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House. For the book, authors Jonathan Allen and Ami Parnes spoke to numerous Harris insiders about their efforts to get the candidate on his podcast. Those insiders describe a frustrating experience that included creating a campaign stop in Houston with Beyonce on Oct. 25 just to put Harris in proximity to Austin for a potential appearance on Rogan, only to then be told by the podcaster’s team that the date “was blocked out as a personal day” — which later turned out to be the same day Rogan interviewed Donald Trump.
But Rogan says things happened very differently.
“This whole idea that we fucked her over and we fucked her over for Trump — incorrect, just not true,” Rogan said. “One of the things they said that wasn’t true was that we lied about the day that Trump was coming on, and we just didn’t [say] that Trump was coming on. This is how it worked: Trump was really easy to book. Like, super easy. We offered one day. He said, ‘Yes.’ That was it. It was no, ‘What are we going to talk about? How long is it going to be? Is it going to be edited?’ … It was so easy. So he was already booked.
[The Harris campaign] never committed to doing the show … They said that the reason why they did the Beyoncé event in Houston was so that they could be in Texas to do my show. They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true. They also said that they sent someone down here to the studio to do a walk-through of the set. That’s not true. These people didn’t have a date. They never agreed to do the show.”
Watch the video below:
BREAKING: Joe Rogan confirms that the Kamala Harris campaign LIED about Joe “not making time for Kamala.” He says that they refused to commit to a time, lied that he was unavailable, pretended they sent someone to view his set, and this lie was Kamala’s team covering their ass. pic.twitter.com/P8K9yBL6H4
— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) February 4, 2025
Rogan retweeted this with a confirmation:
This is what actually happened with Kamala not coming on the podcast. https://t.co/XXvmYs6Cgs
— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) February 5, 2025
Going on Rogan would not have helped Kamala to win the election, but not going on Rogan definitely hurt her chances. A stupid mistake.