Popular podcast host Joe Rogan floated the theory that the discovery of top secret and classified documents that appear to have been mishandled by President Joe Biden is part of a ploy by the Democrats to oust Biden before the 2024 race.
On an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience that came out over the weekend, Rogan spoke with comedians Matt McCusker and Shane Gillis, who co-host a podcast of their own together.
During the conversation, the three broached the subject of the recently discovered top secret and classified documents that were found by Biden’s lawyers and legal aides in his Delaware home and at his DC think tank.
‘If I had to guess – they’re trying to get rid of him,’ Rogan speculated, referring to members of the president’s own party, hoping to clear the field ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Biden’s team has continuously denied any wrongdoing and predicted that he’ll be cleared of any criminality when it comes to the classified document debacle
‘It’s crazy. He’s (Joe Biden) getting jammed up on like manila folders when he was like kissing 12-year-old girls on camera,’ said McCusker, referencing some of the president’s oft-noted odd behavior around underage girls.
Rogan then weighed in: ‘I don’t know jack sh** about politics. But if I had to guess – they’re trying to get rid of him.’
‘My guess would be they’re trying to get rid of him. If all of a sudden they’re – his own aides are sending these – instead of like taking these classified documents, which you have located and go, ‘Well, let’s not do that again’ and f***ing locking them up somewhere,’ said Rogan.
‘Self-reporting,’ Gillis offered.
‘Dude, come on,’ Rogan replied. ‘That sounds sus. Well, no one self-reported that f***ing laptop.’
‘Well, that was Russian disinformation,’ Gillis joked. ‘That reeks of Russian disinformation.’
The comedian, who infamously was cast and then promptly fired by Saturday Night Live producers for past insensitive jokes he’d made, was referencing the claim made by 51 US intelligence officials who said the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be Russian disinformation on the eve of the 2020 presidential election.
‘I mean everyone said this a million times with like the news. If that was flip-flopped, if it was, you know, Trump’s kid, that would’ve been all over,’ said McCusker.
‘It would’ve been like, this is the fate of our democracy…blah, blah, blah,’ he added.
‘And the media would’ve gone right along with it,’ said Rogan.
Popular podcast host Joe Rogan said his initial reaction to the president’s classified document scandal is that his own party is attempting to oust him ahead of the 2024 race
Comedian Shane Gillis speculated that it is unlikely anyone affiliated with the president’s administration would suddenly decide to self-report finding classified documents in the president’s home
Biden’s team has continuously denied any wrongdoing and predicted that he’ll be cleared of any criminality.
‘We have cooperated from the moment we informed the Archives that a small number of documents were found, and we will continue to cooperate,’ Richard Sauber, a senior White House lawyer, said in a statement, adding that the documents were ‘inadvertently misplaced’ and not illegally mishandled.
The top secret documents found in DC include US intelligence memorandums and briefing materials that covered topics including Ukraine, Iran, and the United Kingdom, CNN reported.
There was also a memo from Biden to President Obama as well as two briefing memos preparing Biden for phone calls – one with the British prime minister, the other with Donald Tusk, the former prime minister of Poland who served as president of the European Council from 2014-2019.
Biden fired back at reporters who asked about the debacle on Thursday saying that the documents found in Delaware were in a ‘locked garage’ with his beloved Corvette.
‘People know I take classified documents and classified material seriously. I also said we’re cooperating fully and completely with the Justice Department’s review,’ he said.
The revelation of the classified material is deeply awkward for Biden, who condemned Donald Trump last year when it emerged that he had boxes of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.