California Governor Gavin Newsom sat down on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast, and quickly found himself having to defend his COVID record.
While appearing on the show, host Shawn Ryan received a message from fellow podcaster Joe Rogan. He explained that Patreon members could weigh in with questions of their own, and Rogan happened to be among those who jumped at the opportunity.
“Motherfu***r!” Newsom shouted. “By the way, I’m a Joe Rogan fan. He ain’t a fan of mine, but I’m a Joe Rogan fan. No bullshit. And I’ve lived it for decades … I feel like it’s a decade back in the day before Joe was Joe Rogan. He was just a podcaster, man. Now he’s a phenom.”
“Good friend of mine. Well, this is from Joe Rogan,” Ryan noted.
“Oh, God,” Newsom laughed nervously. “He won’t have me on the show, by the way”
“Who will be held accountable for mandating COVID-19 vaccines for children, which were unnecessary and ineffective, and who will take responsibility for the unprecedented increases in myocarditis and cancer cases among them?” Ryan said, reading Rogan’s message. “Second to that, do you feel any remorse for that draconian decision that was obviously heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical companies’ desire for maximum profit?”
Newsom went full politician mode.
“Yeah, I’ve been — I’ve signed some of the most progressive laws against Big Pharma in the country. So I have receipts on that. So, no one should suggest that it was about doing the bidding of Big Pharma — quite the contrary,” he said.
“California, like many states, red states included, Florida included, moved forward early in the pandemic, working with the Trump administration and the advisors from the Trump administration,” he added.
“I’ve asked our team to put together an objective review of everything we did right, everything we did wrong. We’re interviewing people who vehemently disagree with us… international experts. We’re stress testing our entire process, coulda, shoulda, woulda, comparing and contrasting to what other states did.”
Newsom also remained firm in his stance that “vaccines save lives,” but seemed willing to concede the point on jabbing children, who were least at risk during the pandemic.
“I respect that. And that was where there was a lot of feedback with a lot of experts that I had as advisers.”
He had some snark for Rogan and other critics of COVID mandates, appearing to forget that many voiced their opposition in real time, and have ended up being proven right in “hindsight.”
“I know everyone’s a goddamn genius now in hindsight. But at the time, none of us knew what we were up against, including the president of the United States, who I worked very closely with… and I say that with the kind of humility he deserves as well… grace that he deserves in terms of the decisions he made early on.”
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