Joe Rogan threw cold water on President Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the Jeffrey Epstein controversy is a “hoax” orchestrated by Democrats.
“Well, it’s certainly not a hoax if you go to jail,” the podcaster said during Tuesday’s episode of the “Joe Rogan Experience,” referencing the two occasions disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Epstein spent time in behind bars.
Epstein was sentenced to 18 months in jail in 2018 after pleading guilty in Florida to charges of soliciting prostitution and soliciting prostitution from a minor. The sentence was part of a controversial plea deal that spared him at the time from federal charges, in spite of evidence of his abuse of multiple girls.
After the Miami Herald reexamined that deal and highlighted the stories of survivors of his abuse, Epstein was arrested again in July 2019 on federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. While being held without bail in a federal detention facility in New York City as he awaited trial, Epstein was found dead in his cell on August 10, 2019.
Multiple authorities concluded that Epstein died by suicide.
