Joe Rogan Sparks Conspiracy Talk About The Charlie Kirk Shooting
Joe Rogan laid out a rapid-fire case for skepticism (or conspiracy?) about the official narrative surrounding Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
On his latest show with Andrew Santino, Rogan pressed a series of hard questions about strange details that, taken together, he says don’t add up.
George Zinn Weirdness
Rogan is particularly skeptical about the role of George Zinn, a man who acted erratically at the scene. Here are Rogan’s exact words:
All right. So you got this guy who’s an older guy who starts yelling out. Didn’t he take his pants down? He took his pants down? … This guy was at 9-11. He was at the Boston bombing. All the hits. He called in a fake bomb at another place, and then he did this at this thing. … Then, ready for this? He gets arrested for child porn right away. Right after this happened? Oh, right away. He’s in jail for child porn. Why is that? … Well, now you can’t interview him. Right, because when the internet people start going, how are you at all these different things? Like, what are the odds?
But this needs a real fact check, cause it’s not all true.
- The pants incident: Clips from the event do appear to show Zinn behaving erratically and exposing himself. This part is accurate.
- Bomb threat history: The Associated Press did report on April 23, 2013, that Zinn made a bomb threat at the Utah Marathon shortly after the Boston bombing. But there is no real evidence he was also at the Boston marathon.
- 9/11: No credible evidence supports claims that Zinn was present at the Boston Marathon bombing or at 9/11. These associations seem to come from insane posts on X, not verified reporting or even legit sources.
- Possession of illicit material involving minors: Zinn was arrested on child pornography charges immediately after the Kirk incident.
WWI Rifle Oddity
Rogan also questions the rifle story. Early images reportedly showed a modern, scoped bolt-action rifle; officials later labeled the weapon a World War I–era heirloom with no serial number. Rogan says that while an old rifle can be accurate, the official account — that the gun was disassembled, carried in a backpack, and reassembled on a rooftop with only a screwdriver — strains plausibility. He argues that reassembly under stress would likely require a gunsmith’s tools and skill, not a single screwdriver.
Was Tyler Robinson even the assassin?
That cuts into Rogan’s core doubt: was Tyler Robinson the shooter or a scapegoat? He suggests the evidence has the feel of a setup:
- a staged decoy
- an implausible weapons narrative
- confusing rooftop logistics
- and a fast “impact” that doesn’t fit a long-range shot.
“Maybe he’s a patsy,” Rogan says. “Maybe he did it… I feel like he’s a plant.” So Rogan is unsure, but lays a case that questions the narrative.
Rogan’s larger point, avoiding the conspiracy, is just saying don’t let these things divide us. “We have to be a community and we can have differences of opinion.” He also makes some points about the dangers of indoctrination from extremist ideologies when we’re young.
This kid was really wrapped up in some hardcore leftist, Antifa ideologies. Listen: if you’re 20, you’re dumb as shit, and people can get you to be a Nazi, a Muslim, a Mormon, a Scientologist—anything. When people are young and they don’t have friends and their parents suck, you can indoctrinate them.
Which is something I think most of us can agree on, and education and critical thinking is an important tool we need for ourselves and particularly for the younger generations.
