Joe Rogan accuses ex-presidents of trying to get him kicked off Spotify
Joe Rogan claimed that multiple “presidents and former presidents” tried to pressure Spotify to drop him over allegations that he spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Rogan, 58, alleged that powerful forces were at work behind the scenes to silence him, claiming that “a lot of people and a lot of money” had gone into efforts to get him off the platform.
The podcast queen said critics wanted to stop him from sharing his opinions on COVID-19 vaccines and alternative treatments, and to end conversations with experts who questioned the mainstream narrative.
During the June 17 episode by The Joe Rogan ExperienceBehavioral profiler guest Chase Hughes praised the host for speaking out, telling him, “We have people who look like you, and I’m not kissing you here, but you’re willing to say s— that sounds ridiculous at the beginning of something, and just make an observation that’s real.”
Rogan responded, “Well, the position I was in during the COVID thing was very unique. So it was almost easy for me because I had already gotten such a head start. I was so far ahead of them.”
During the interview, Rogan also argued that his huge audience gave him a platform to expose what he said were glaring inconsistencies in the official COVID-19 narrative.
“They didn’t realize my ability to say, ‘Wait, this doesn’t make sense.’ None of this makes any sense. And also: why am I green?” he joked, reigniting his long-running feud with CNN over allegations that the network altered the footage of his COVID diagnosis announcement to make him appear sicker than he was.
‘And also: why do you lie? Why do you guys lie about all kinds of different things?’ Rogan sued, accusing the media and public health authorities of misleading the public about COVID-19 and its treatments.
Rogan noted that he was in a “unique position” to speak out about the vaccine and alternative treatments as he had “a large audience that they weren’t aware of.”
“The backlash was crazy. They tried to crush my sponsors. They organized campaigns. There were PACs involved. Thank God I was on Spotify, and thank God Spotify is not an American company,” he explained, referring to Swedish co-founders and majority shareholders Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
“I can’t even talk about it. But there were presidents involved and former presidents contacting Spotify. They tried to remove me because of vaccine misinformation,” Rogan revealed.
‘And it turned out to be true. Everything,” Rogan highlighted his past claims about the vaccine and the alternative COVID-19 treatments he personally used, including Ivermectin.
Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA for use in humans to treat COVID-19, but is instead approved to treat certain parasite-related conditions.
CNN excoriated Rogan at the time, calling the drug a “horse dewormer,” and other mainstream media regularly called out the world’s most popular podcast for spreading “misinformation.”
“Not a single apology. Not a single apology from anyone. Not a single retraction, not a single mea culpa, not a single ‘We were wrong,'” the stand-up comic complained about being raked over the coals by politicians and the media during the pandemic.
“I lost a lot of sponsors. I lost a lot during that time. It was interesting. It was a time when it worked,” Rogan said of the campaigns to discredit him.
“I don’t talk about it too much because it’s quite deep,” he warned, then made the shocking revelation: “But it didn’t work, did it? But they tried, and they tried. They spent a lot of money. Lots of money. It was not a small amount. It wasn’t about a small number of people. It was a lot of people and a lot of money.”
