Joe Rogan, the influential podcaster who endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2024, now says the Epstein scandal marks a “line in the sand” for him—condemning the President for attempting to “gaslight” the American public by refusing to release the files or provide transparency.

During the 2024 campaign, Trump promised to release the Epstein files, saying he would have “no problem” in doing so. But since taking office, he has flip-flopped, refusing to release the documents—especially the so-called “client list”—while calling the scandal a hoax. He also has claimed, more recently, the files were created by Democrats to smear him, despite the fact that his own administration controls the release and no Democrats have published them.

“Epstein’s name was mentioned more than 40 times on the most recent episode of ‘The Joe Rogan Experience,’ which consistently ranks as the most popular podcast in the United States,” CNN reported. “We are now entering week number four of this scandal engulfing President Trump, largely because the outrage is coming from within Trump’s normally steadfast circle of conspiracy-minded media boosters.”

CNN also reported that “Rogan’s criticism suggests Trump’s headache will only grow from here.”

Rogan strongly condemned Trump’s handling of the crisis.

“There’s a line in the sand. This one’s a line in the sand,” Rogan said on his podcast (video below), “because this is one where there’s a lot of stuff about, you know, when we thought Trump was gonna come in and a lot of things are gonna be resolved, gonna drain the swamp, gonna figure everything out, and when you have this one hardcore line in the sand that everybody had been talking about forever, and then they’re trying to gaslight you on that.”

Watch the video below or at this link.

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