Joe Rogan says media stifled 'real information' on Hunter Biden: 'That's a real problem'

Comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan took time to discuss the recent revelation that Hunter Biden's emails were, in fact, not "Russian disinformation."

Rogan focused heavily on the media's apparent role in suppressing the story when The New York Post first broke it right before the 2020 presidential election during his show on Saturday.

Democrats, journalists, and anti-Trump commentators insisted at the time the story, which focused on an obtained laptop and emails allegedly belonging to President Joe Biden's son, was potentially disinformation hoping to sway the presidential election.

The story alleged the obtained laptop and emails showed Hunter Biden was engaged in potentially illegal business dealings with foreign countries, yet because it was believed to be disinformation, many social media giants including Facebook and Twitter blocked the story from their platforms.

However, according to a recent report from The New York Times, the laptop and emails are actually legitimate.

People familiar with the investigation said prosecutors had examined emails between Mr. Biden, Mr. Archer and others about Burisma and other foreign business activity,” the Times wrote. “Those emails were obtained by The New York Times from a cache of files that appears to have come from a laptop abandoned by Mr. Biden in a Delaware repair shop. The email and others in the cache were authenticated by people familiar with them and with the investigation.

On his show, "The Joe Rogan Experience", Rogan expressed concern certain media outlets were stifling information because the truth made them "uncomfortable." Rogan had brought on former CIA officer Mike Baker to chat about Ukraine and Russia's invasion, but deviated for a bit to talk about disinformation, whether it comes from the Kremlin or from America's own intelligence and media.

They set a precedent and that precedent is you can stifle information that makes you uncomfortable, you can stifle discussions where people have points of view that you don't agree with. And you think you're right. So you think you should be able to stop those points of view. That is not the way to do it," Rogan says during his show. "It's never been the way to do it. It's a dangerous precedent to set because then when more power is acquired by whoever, whether it's social media companies or the government or whoever the f*** it is, they get to establish narrative and that narrative might not be honest. That's a real problem. And the only way to find out what's real and what's not real, is to let people talk.

Rogan heavily criticized the decision to stifle information and debate over stories like Hunter Biden's laptop, saying "it's not healthy for anybody."

You have to f****** talk about things. You have to have open communication. And the only way you find out if someone's full of s*** or if someone's lying or someone's withholding information is to let people talk and let people sort things through," Rogan insists. "The truth is messy. There's a lot going on in the world. And you can't stifle information and debate. It's not healthy for anybody. And you can't do it just because you think your side is correct. It's not good. It's not, it's not what's amazing about a free society. And you can't decide that there's certain ugly aspects of this society that you think should be suppressed. Because when you do that, then people can decide your aspect of society is ugly, your perspective is ugly.

The popular podcast host went on to warn if America was ever led by a "hardcore Putin-type leader," then "legitimate journalists that are exposing corruption" could be suppressed and stifled. He likened such potential efforts to the crackdown The New York Post faced when it first reported on Hunter Biden's laptop and emails.

And this is the problem that I had with, like, the New York Post article on ... the Hunter Biden laptop being suppressed," Rogan says on his podcast episode. "It's not that I'm a Trump supporter... I didn't vote for him. I didn't vote for any Republican ever in my life. But you're looking at something that's real information, and you're hiding it from people because you don't like the result that you think is going to come out of that information. That's not ... how we're supposed to be doing things.

The Department of Justice is possibly preparing for an indictment against the president's son, according to the author of "Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich," Peter Schweizer.

"I think this New York Times piece, the fact that they got cooperation from team Biden and probably from the Hunter Biden legal team, is an indication that they are extremely concerned he's going to be indicted," Schweizer said Sunday on Fox News.