The podcaster details what he says really happened between his podcast team and the Harris campaign during their much-disputed booking effort: 'It's someone trying to cover their ass.'
is — for the first time — detailing exactly what he says happened between his podcast and the Kamala Harris campaign following reports that his show misled the vice president’s team.Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House .
For the book, authors Jonathan Allen and Ami Parnes spoke to numerous Harris insiders about their efforts to get the candidate on his podcast. Those insiders describe a frustrating experience that included creating a campaign stop in Houston with Beyonce on Oct. 25 just to put Harris in proximity to Austin for a potential appearance on Rogan, only to then be told by the podcaster’s team that the date “was blocked out as a personal day” — which later turned out to be the same day Rogan interviewed Donald Trump.“This whole idea that we fucked her over and we fucked her over for Trump — incorrect, just not true,” Rogan said. “One of the things they said that wasn’t true was that we lied about the day that Trump was coming on, and we just didn’t that Trump was coming on. This is how it worked: Trump was really easy to book. Like, super easy. We offered one day. He said, ‘Yes.’ That was it. It was no, ‘What are we going to talk about? How long is it going to be? Is it going to be edited?’ … It was so easy. So he was already booked. never committed to doing the show … They said that the reason why they did the Beyoncé event in Houston was so that they could be in Texas to do my show. They never agreed to do the show. None of that’s true. They also said that they sent someone down here to the studio to do a walk-through of the set. That’s not true. These people didn’t have a date. They never agreed to do the show.” Continued Rogan: “I wanted to release both of on the same day. my goal. I even offered to do it late that night. So the night that Trump came on, I’m like, ‘What if we do her when she’s done in , if she came here?’ But no one ever committed to doing it. This is really important, because they keep pretending that I lied.” “Even after Trump went on, they offered for me to come to D.C. and do a show with Kamala,” he said. “But then, it was only like 45 minutes to an hour. And it was not on my set. And I said that, ‘Look, did it here. We should probably do it here if it’s possible’ … saying we were difficult to deal with. Not true. We were super easy. But also it’s got to be the actual real show. It shouldn’t be some fake version where I’m sitting in a conference room. Oh, also, they wanted a stenographer in the room. They wanted staff in the room. Trump was just in here by himself. It very controlled, and they were really concerned that wasn’t going to be edited. My manager asked, ‘Is she committed to doing this?’ The answer was ‘No, she hasn’t committed.’ Like they wouldn’t even say whether or not she had expressed willingness to do it… There were some people that were supposedly on her staff that were against her doing it. They thought was bad because a bunch of wokesters.” “So I don’t think they ever really were sure they wanted to do it,” Rogan said. “Then, once Trump did it, had this huge response. I think then it was like, ‘What the fuck are we doing? He just did it. Got 50 fucking million views. This is so stupid. Why didn’t we do it?'” “We have all the receipts, by the way,” Rogan added. “Of course, I have a whole list of conversations that took place … I think it’s someone trying to cover their ass for the fact that she never did it, and if she did do it, it might have had a positive effect. we got along great, and ‘young male vote’ things could have been different’ … “ supposedly talked to 150 different people what happened with her coming on the show. They didn’t talk to us, and which is kind of crazy. They didn’t even ask. But they said things that just weren’t true.”Shopping With THRThe Best Valentine’s Day Gifts for Men That Aren’t Power Tools or Boring Neckties, from a David Beckham-Approved Speaker to NFL Slippers. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GoogleThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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