Overview
- Rogan, speaking on Wednesday's episode of his podcast with Arsenio Hall, claimed the Iran campaign was launched to pull attention from newly released DOJ documents on Jeffrey Epstein.
- Framing it as political misdirection, he echoed Hall's point and cited Bill Clinton's bombing during the Monica Lewinsky scandal as a past example of distraction.
- Rogan argued that the White House threatened to prosecute journalists reporting on the Iran operation while no one has been charged based on the Epstein files.
- A March 11 poll from Drop Site/Zeteo/Data For Progress found a 52–40 plurality of voters who viewed the Iran war as at least partly a distraction from the Epstein releases.
- Once an endorser in 2024, Rogan has grown into a sharp critic of Trump's Operation Epic Fury in Iran and has warned it could spiral into a wider war.