Two hours and 40 minutes into Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump, the most influential podcaster in America finally asked the former president about at least one of his most frequent obsessions. “One of the things I wanted to talk to you about was the JFK files,” Rogan said, before lightly pressing Trump for a reason why he did not fully release the classified files on the assassination that has captivated many Americans who believe that the government played a role in the murder of John F. Kennedy. Trump said there are some people still alive “who are affected” — to which Rogan suggested that these people were “implicated” in a plot to kill Kennedy. “When there are living people, you generally don’t want to do it,” Trump said.
It appears Rogan himself took this same protect-the-living approach on Friday, to Trump’s benefit, regarding another one of his obsessions: the mysteriously well-connected sexual offender Jeffrey........