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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance’s podcast on “The Joe Rogan Experience” released on Thursday, offering new insights into his work with President Donald Trump.
The nearly three-and-a-half-hour episode addressed a wide variety of issues, including the account of Vance initially thinking Trump had been killed when he was shot in Butler.
“I go back home to Ohio, he gets shot, you know, the initial reaction was, I actually thought they had killed him, because when you first see the video, he grabs his ear, and then he goes down, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, they just killed him,’ and I was so pissed,” Vance said.
“But then I go into like fight-or-flight mode. With my kids, I’m like, you know, ‘Alright kids’ – We’re at a mini-golf place in Cincinnati, Ohio. I grab my kids up, throw them in the car, go home, and load all my guns, and basically stand like a sentry at our front door and that was my- that was sort of my action to it,” he added.
Vance was officially announced as Trump’s running mate just two days later.
“Nobody responded to it, and it’s- the whole thing is very fishy to me,” Vance noted. “And I hope that we win and then get to the bottom of it, because I think somebody clearly screwed up.”
Among other topics Vance addressed was men in women’s sports.
“I’m the father of a two-year-old daughter,” Vance said. “I don’t want her going into athletic competitions where I’m terrified she’s gonna get bludgeoned to death because we’re allowing a six-foot one male to compete with her in sports,” Vance said.
The conversation with Rogan comes less than a week after Trump’s nearly three-hour interview on “The Joe Rogan Experience” was released last Friday.
Trump’s three-hour conversation gave an unfiltered look at Trump’s views to Rogan’s audience of over 14.5 million on Spotify and 17.6 million on YouTube.
The interview covered a wide range of topics, including when Trump first came into office and, “Obama thought we were going to go to war with North Korea.”
“I said, ‘Little Rocket Man, you’re going to burn in hell.’ And it was rough,” Trump said. “I got to know him better than anybody, anybody. And I said, ‘Do you ever do anything else? Why don’t you go take it easy and relax? Go to the beach?’ You know, kiddingly, I said, ‘You’re always building nuclear. Just relax. You don’t have to do it. Let’s build some condos.’”
