MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz’s daughter Hope Walz took a swipe at an influential podcaster. Joe Rogan And after the host said he supported President-elect Donald Trump, men in his fan base said: False statements made by former Democratic vice presidential candidate about his past.
In a video posted this weekend to her nearly 190,000 TikTok followers, the 23-year-old said that for her and her friends, the “litmus test” of dating is “If the guy you’re talking to is Joe Rogan on Instagram… “Whether or not you follow them,” he said, adding that it is. “That’s a red flag and you should probably stop talking to them.”
“Literally, no one has ever betrayed us. And at this point, it’s kind of the first thing we do when someone starts talking to someone new. If they follow (Logan), We think, oh, this person is probably not great,’ maybe our values don’t align, so we move on from there,” Hope Walz said.
She also labeled Mr Logan, 57, “suspicious and unprofessional”.
“I don’t understand how you can have the biggest podcast in the world and be able to lie and spread misinformation and outright lies on your platform,” she said. .
Monday on Logan’s podcast X account.joe rogan experience” posted an excerpt of a Huffington Post article about her video to her 1.3 million followers.
Logan’s show consistently ranks high on Spotify’s podcast charts — signed him to a nine-figure contract earlier this year. According to Edison Research, it has more than 14 million followers, most of whom are young people from a variety of political backgrounds.
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Logan is known for long interviews with various guests and has been criticized in the past for appearing to be misogynistic and for vocally supporting several conspiracy theories.
Mr. Rogan released a three-hour interview with Mr. Trump days before the campaign, but Mr. Trump remained popular with young people in the final weeks of the campaign in hopes of engaging undecided voters. He has appeared on several podcasts.
Logan made a last-minute statement of support for Trump last month, saying it stemmed from his belief that Walz is a “liar” and referring to the governor’s behavior. Misstated his rank in the Minnesota National Guard and falsely implied he had seen combat..
Logan also addressed the governor’s false claim that he was in Hong Kong during the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. In an interview with CBS News During a meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris in October, the governor called himself an “idiot” for making this claim.
Logan said of Governor Walz: “Do you care if they lie about their military rank or where they serve? Do you care if they lie about Tiananmen Square? There are too many of them. This is really crazy.”
Trump himself has made numerous false statements both inside and outside of office. Glenn Kessler, chief reporter for The Washington Post’s Fact Checker, tracked “.”The scale and number of his lies“Over the years.
“All presidents lie. Mr. Trump’s hallmark is that he’s misleading, he’s false, and he lies about almost everything on a daily basis,” Kessler said in 2020, Trump’s first term. told CBS News.
I wish it was Waltz Pushed onto the world stage at the Democratic National Convention in August with her brother Gus Waltz at 18 years old. He went viral for expressing his joy for his vice presidential candidate’s father through tears and shouts. National dialogue on awareness of neurodiversity.
The birth of the siblings also became a campaign fodder, and the governor faced new scrutiny on the issue. whether his children were conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF);. His wife, Gwen Waltz, It was later revealed They used intrauterine insemination treatment (IUI).
