Former President Donald Trump and podcast host Joe Rogan covered a lot of ground in a sprawling three-hour conversation released online Friday night, but they kept returning to election integrity issues.
They spoke several times about mail-in ballots and voter identification. The United States should return to all paper ballots, Trump said. When ballots go through the mail, things can get “messed up,” he said, adding that paper ballots are less expensive than voting machines.
Trump and Rogan both questioned why anyone would not want a law that requires voters to show identification before they vote.
“It is one of the most bizarre and polarizing ideas that’s promoted by the left,” Rogan said.
The only reason they don’t want voter ID, Trump said, is because Democrats want to cheat.
“It is the only thing that makes sense,” Rogan said in agreement. At times like this, they finished each other’s sentences.
Voters don’t want Democrat policies like open borders and men playing in women’s sports, Trump said, adding voters never ask him to implement those policies.
“We have to have fair elections,” Trump said, so voters can live under the policies they want.
So-called election denial was a common posture among losing Democrats in the past, Rogan said. Hillary Clinton and Al Gore believed they won past races. In the years since the 2016 election, Clinton has continued to claim she was robbed of the presidential seat calling Trump an “illegitimate president.”
“Look at these sleaze
