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Topics: Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Politics
Joe Yates
Topics: Joe Rogan, Donald Trump, El Salvador, Politics
Joe Rogan has weighed into the debate around President Donald Trump's controversial decision to order mass deportations of alleged criminals to the 'world's worst prison'.
On March 31, the Trump administration admitted in a court filing that an 'administrative error' led to Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, of Maryland, being deported alongside 250 alleged criminals to El Salvador's notorious Center for Terrorism Confinement (CECOT).
Since the revelation that he has been wrongfully incarcerated in the brutal Central American prison, Trump has claimed that he has 'proof' that the doting father is a criminal as he posted a picture of García's hand on Truth Social.
The image in question appeared to depict 'M S 1 3' photoshopped on the knuckles of his hand. However, a photograph shared of García by the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, depicts his hand without 'M S 1 3' tattooed on it.
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Now, Rogan has issued a warning to Trump - who he endorsed in the build-up to the presidential election six months ago.
Speaking on The Joe Rogan Podcast on Thursday (April 17), he touched on the 'admin error' which has seen García jailed in a foreign country.
He said to his comic guest Deric Poston: "A very legitimate argument about the right to due process, if you get processed and shipped out of the country and put in a prison in El Salvador you know, what is the quote - was it Benjamin Franklin's quote about innocence?"
Jamie Vernon, the producer of Rogan's show, called up the found father Benjamin Franklin's quote, which read: "It's better 100 guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer."
Rogan continued: "I'm on that side of things, I mean I think due process exists for a reason and the reason is it is horrific for someone to be accused of something they didn't do, be imprisoned for crimes they didn't commit and then live in a cell live in a cage with a bunch of people who did commit [crimes].
"[Speaking of Franklin's quote] That is wisdom that has survived hundreds of years, it's incredibly accurate and it is the foundation of freedom. We have to make sure that these people are actually guilty otherwise we become monsters."
He also referenced a quote by German Friedrich Nietzsche, written in a book titled 'Beyond Good and Evil' from 1886, which read: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster."
Rogan added: "When you fight monsters be careful that you don't become one - it's very important, you can't do that."
It isn't the first time the UFC commentator has criticized the Trump administration, having done so on the same topic on March 29, just two days before the 'admin error' was revealed.