Rogan: Trump administration ‘gaslighting’ supporters on Epstein

Podcaster Joe Rogan is turning up the heat on President Trump, a onetime ally whom he accused of “gaslighting” his supporters over the controversy involving his administration’s handling of information about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“There’s a line in the sand,” Rogan said of the saga on a recent episode of his podcast, in comments first highlighted by Mediaite.

“This one’s a line in the sand, because this is one where there’s a lot of stuff about, you know, when we thought Trump was going to come in and a lot of things are going to be resolved, going to drain the swamp, going to figure everything out, and when you have this one hardcore line in the sand that everybody had been talking about forever, and then they’re trying to gaslight you on that,” he added.

Trump has dismissed any connection to Epstein after many of his supporters expressed outrage at his administration’s memo earlier this month dispelling conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death in 2019, concluding that no “client list” exited and saying it would not release any more information related to his case.

The “Epstein files” have long been a fixation of many conspiracy theorists, particularly on the right.

As he had a public falling out with the president, billionaire Elon Musk called out Trump as being named in the files.

Rogan was one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in the media during his 2024 run for president, hosting the president for a nearly three-hour interview days before the election and endorsing him ahead of his election win.

He is also one of several conservative media personalities who have admonished Trump in light of the Epstein drama and suggested he is betraying his supporters and mishandling the crisis.