(LifeSiteNews) — Popular podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan has said he believes it is “certainly possible” that intelligence officials provoked the January 6 protests in Washington D.C. in 2021 to ensure Donald Trump would never be president again.
“[The FBI does] use agent provocateurs to disrupt peaceful protest. It’s a common tactic,” Rogan told self-professed Catholic comedian Jim Gaffigan, who is an outspoken supporter of LGBT causes, on his podcast earlier this week.
Rogan, 55, also speculated that Ray Epps was a Deep State operative.
He “clearly instigated” things. “He did it on camera,” Rogan remarked. “I don’t know if he was a fed,” he added, but “I know a lot of people think he was a fed… when they asked the FBI, the FBI said, ‘We can’t tell you.’”
Joe Rogan:
“The January 6th thing is bad, but also, the intelligence agencies were involved in provoking people into the Capitol Building. That’s a fact.” pic.twitter.com/3cZToOhQkc
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 31, 2023
Epps is a middle-aged white man who was filmed urging people to enter the Capitol. Unlike other protesters, Epps, who is suing Fox News for defamation, was never arrested or charged with a crime. Liberal media outlets like The New York Times have also come to his defense.
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The former president said he is ”looking at all alternatives” when asked if he would support such a 6-week ban, making this a crucial opportunity for pro-life voters to make their views known to him in no uncertain terms.
“He has to do what he has to do,” Trump said about Gov. DeSantis’ abortion bill. “If you look at what DeSantis did, a lot of people don’t even know if he knew what he was doing. But he signed six weeks, and many people within the pro-life movement feel that that was too harsh.”
Anyone truly in the pro-life movement thinking the ban is too harsh must mean it’s too harsh on those babies less than 6-weeks who can still be murdered.
Mr. Trump’s outlandish claim about anyone in the pro-life movement opposing the ban is doubtful to say the least, but there was more to follow in the interview.
When pressed on whether he thought the bill was ”too harsh”, Trump would not answer directly, instead saying: ”I’m looking at all alternatives. I’m looking at many alternatives. But I was able to get us to the table by terminating Roe v. Wade. That’s the most important thing that’s ever happened for the pro-life movement.”
The former president is correct in saying the overturning of Roe v. Wade was a monumental step for the pro-life movement, but it should only be the beginning of banning the killing of babies in the womb entirely.
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After an aloof Gaffigan told Rogan that he didn’t see how an escalation “would be of use” to the FBI or to the Democrats, Rogan pointed out that Trump “was very open about his disdain for the intelligence agencies,” and that it makes sense that they would seek to use the rally as a way to damage him politically so he would never again occupy the Oval Office.
“I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility they [the FBI] would encourage people to do things that were unlawful,” he asserted. “Throughout history people of unchecked power and unchecked influence have enemies, and Trump was their enemy.”
Rogan continued: “Instead of peacefully protesting — which is what everybody was doing on the outside, which is totally legal — to take that and escalate it to entering into the capitol, now you can lock things down. And now you have real clear evidence that this President is responsible for this insurrection attempt, and ‘this is dangerous,’ this is ‘a threat to our democracy,’ and ‘he’s never going to be President again,’ and ‘we’re going to indict him and go after him and we’re going to do all these different things.’”
According to Politico, there have been more than 1,000 arrests made in connection to the protests. Of those, approximately 485 individuals have been sentenced, with roughly 277 having been given jail time and about 113 sentenced to house arrest. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene complained earlier this year that some detainees are still in the Washington D.C. jail and have not been given a quick and speedy trial as required under the U.S. Constitution’s Sixth Amendment.
Just this week, the FBI announced that former President Trump has been indicted for objecting to the certification of the 2020 presidential election. Many conservative and Republican officials have decried the move as a weaponization of the intelligence community, similar to how third-world “banana republics” operate.