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Popular podcaster Joe Rogan finally had former President Donald Trump on his “Joe Rogan Experience” show for a very specific reason.

The host revealed during his close to three-hour interview with the former president that he decided he wanted to have him on after the first assassination attempt was made on him in Butler, Pennsylvania.

On July 13, at a rally in Butler, Pa., Trump had only spoken for a few minutes before shots rang out. Thomas Crooks, 20, fired eight rounds at the former president, grazing his right ear with the first shot while killing one rallygoer and severely wounding two others, all of whom were seated behind the former president.

Less than two months later, would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested after getting within a few hundred yards of Trump while he was golfing at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15. Routh was set up behind a hedgerow overlooking a green with an AR-style rifle, and he appeared to be waiting for Trump to get close enough before firing.

Secret Service agents spotted the rifle barrel sticking out of the hedgerow and engaged Routh, who fled the scene before being arrested a short while later.

Rogan mentioned the podcast the former president was on with host Theo Von in August which prompted the Republican presidential nominee to ask, “Is that why you called me to do this?”

But Rogan said, “No. Once they shot you, I was like, ‘He’s gotta come in here.’”

Trump gave Rogan a glimpse of the scar he received from Crooks’ bullet. “It zicked right there,” Trump said of the mark behind his right ear.

Rogan responded, “It healed up pretty f–king good.”

“It’s not like some of the wrestlers, some of the UFC fighters… it was sort of like a top shot. The thing’s taken off a little bit,” Trump continued. “But it makes me a tougher guy.”

Rogan, 57, suggested that the assassination attempts might not have occurred if the media—and Democrats like his rival Vice President Kamala Harris and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton—didn’t equate Trump with Adolf Hitler and fascism.

“They love to take things out of context and distort them,” Rogan said. “The rhetoric is that you’re Hitler, and in order to stop Hitler, you have to do whatever it takes.”

In 2022, the host said that he had declined requests by the former president to do his show because he did not want to assist his campaign.

“I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once — I’ve said no, every time,” he said in 2022. “’I don’t want to help him. I’m not interested in helping him.”

But last year, when he interviewed fellow podcast host Patrick Bet-David, he appeared to change his tune.

Bet-David asked him if he would have the former president on, to which the host said, “I don’t know,” before he started listing questions he would like to ask him.

“I would like to know what is it like when you actually get into office? I would like to know things like what is it like versus perception?” he said.

“When do you know that people are f***ing with you? When do you know that the intelligence agencies (are) lying to you?” the host said.

“When you decided to fire (former FBI director James) Comey, what was the thought? How much did you know?’ What’s the machine like? What is the deep state really like, really like?” he said.

And in September, the host shredded rich celebrities who appeared at the Democrat National Convention for lecturing people on income inequality.

“How about Oprah?” Rogan said. “Oprah was talking about her and Trump running together, and now she’s speaking to the DNC that he’s a threat to democracy and she’s up there talking about income inequality, like, ‘Hey lady — you’re rich as f***!’ I’m like, ‘How is that equal?’”

Rogan went on to say that it was “nuts” how several celebrities used to be close friends with former President Donald Trump, but they now hate him because he’s a Republican and not a Democrat.

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