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Joe Rogan Says It’s a ‘Fact’ That Jan. 6 Was a False Flag, Cites Ray Epps (www.thedailybeast.com)

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Rogan promoted the conspiracy theory that Epps was an “agent provocateur” for the feds, a baseless claim that has led to a defamation suit against Fox News.

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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

Rogan, who signed a $200 million contract with Spotify in 2020, has repeatedly embraced the unsubstantiated claim that federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies used “agent provocateurs” such as Epps to manipulate the crowd to attack the Capitol. In past episodes, Rogan said the intelligence community had a “vested interest in this going sideways,” adding that “if somebody wanted to disparage a political party or to maybe have some sort of a justification for getting some influential person like Donald Trump offline, that would be the way they would do it.”

What a slimeball

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

It's just pure gaslighting. "That time you saw Trump tell people to march down to the Capitol after telling them to "fight like hell" was totally unrelated to what happened at the Capitol a short time later."

[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is this. Trump sent his worshipers down to the capital after getting them all riled up on lies he told them. And many of his followers have mental issues and they are uneducated and ill informed. HE didn't go with them like he said because he knew it would be violent.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I'm not pinning this on mental illness. That is a scapegoat. Plenty of people, including myself, have mental illness and don't ever resort to any sort of thing even resembling this behavior. These are simply bad, entitled people who were angry that the universe didn't revolve around them for once.

Were some of the people there mentally ill that day? Statistically, almost inevitably. Most of those people were not even approaching a level of mental illness where they were unaware of the consequences of their actions.

[-] ashok36@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Don't forget that he knew a substantial amount of them were armed and dangerous. His security detail told him so when he insisted they remove the magnetometers to let the armed crazy people fill in his rally more. The Jan 6 committee showed this during their hearings.

[-] Hairyblue@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Yep. Trump knew he had a angry mob under his control and he pointed them at the capital and pull the trigger.

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