Daily Take: Will Joe Rogan Become Trump’s Fixer-in-Chief?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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With the Epstein truth collapsing, is America’s favorite interviewer about to become Trump’s top enabler?
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| 1:00.6 | Will Joe Rogan become Trump's fixer in chief? Joe Rogan built an empire on being the guy who asked |
| 1:07.1 | the questions nobody else would. That's why millions of Americans, especially younger |
| 1:11.7 | men, trust him more than they trust the nation's media, Congress or the Supreme Court. They believe |
| 1:18.5 | he sees through the spin. He talks to conspiracy theorists and scientists alike, grills politicians, |
| 1:24.7 | mocks the media, and makes it all feel like truth-telling. |
| 1:28.4 | But now Rogan is at a crossroads. The question isn't whether Joe Rogan will change the country. |
| 1:34.1 | The question is whether power is changing Joe Rogan. |
| 1:37.6 | The Trump administration is deep in the middle of its biggest credibility crisis since they sent troops into the streets of Los Angeles. |
| 1:45.1 | And it's not about inflation, immigration, or international war. It's about the long promised release of the Epstein |
| 1:50.6 | files, something candidate Trump used as a political weapon in 2024, vowing to expose elite pedophiles |
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