Joe Rogan said a new precedent had been set with former President Donald Trump's guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records last week in a Manhattan court.
Rogan made his remarks on the "kooky" timeline of events during a Wednesday episode of his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, with guest and fellow comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.
“We’re being run by a dead man,” Rogan said. “They’re trying to stop this other guy from even running, and they’re exposing how corrupt the democracy is. They’re exposing how corrupt the system is just by charging this guy with 34 felonies for paying off a lady he had sex with. Like, what?”
Rogan noted the crime Trump was accused of would normally be considered a misdemeanor, though noted the federal charges appeared to be politically motivated.
“They trumped it up — no pun intended. And then he signed like 34 different checks so there are 34 different counts. The whole thing’s crazy," he continued. "What’s scary is how many Democrats are willing to allow this kind of stuff to happen."
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The comedian then suggested many Democrats and critics of Trump were aware of the lawfare levied at the former president.
“They don’t even realize they’re setting a precedent, and when this guy gets in office or another guy gets in office that’s a Republican, you’ve got real problems now, kids,” he continued. “If the elections are real, that’s how it usually goes. It usually goes, one side wins, and they’re like, ‘This sucks. Let’s try the other way.’ The other guy wins, and they’re like, ‘Huh? This is BS. Let’s try the other way.’ This is what we’ve done in this country over and over and over again. We go Clinton to Bush, Bush to Obama. It’s what we do. We always do it this way.”
Rogan noted if precedent is set allowing candidates to legally "silence" and "pursue" their political opponents, then the country will have become similar to Mexico.
“We’re just not assassinating people yet. We’re like a third-world country. We’re like a banana republic," he said. "We’re letting things other than the will of the people and what’s best for the people be what’s running the thing. We’re letting the thing be run by the people that are in power, that are corrupt, that want to keep the power."
Trump is the first president to be the subject of a criminal trial and subsequently convicted. The former president's sentencing is scheduled for July 11.
