Apparently, some people think that one of the unnamed recipients of classified information in the Trump indictment was Kid Rock. It’s because of this interview from 2022 on Tucker Carlson’s show. But the event happened in 2017 so it was when Trump was president and has nothing to do with this indictment.
He does show just how cavalier he always was with government secrets.
In the 2022 interview, Rock said the embattled former business mogul asked him for assistance when writing a tweet about ISIS and probed the rocker on how he would handle North Korea – showing him maps in the Oval Office.
A 52-year-old Rock – whose real name is Bob Ritchie – is not the mystery person mentioned in the indictment, though the stories he told to Carlson do call into question Trump’s handling of top secret material.
Rock recalled one session with Trump when the now ex-president ‘ended the caliphate,’ a reference to the Islamic State terror group that took over parts of Iraq.
‘He wanted to put out a tweet. And it was like – I don’t like to speak out of school, I hope I’m not – but he said something like … and I’m paraphrasing – but it was like, ‘If you ever joined the caliphate, and trying to do this, you’re going to be dead,” the rocker recalled.
Trump asked Kid Rock his thoughts on the tweet, Kid Rock said.
‘I go, ‘Awesome. Like, yes tweet that out.’ I was like, ‘I can’t add anything better than [that],” he said.
Rock – often a guest of Trump at the White House and a very public supporter of the President – said when the actual tweet came out it was ‘reworded and more political and like a little politically correct.’
He also said he and Trump would be ‘looking at maps and s**t.’
‘And I’m like – I’m like, ‘Am I supposed to be like in on this s**t?’ Kid Rock said.
‘What do you think we should do about North Korea?’ Kid Rock also said he was asked. ‘I’m like, what? I don’t think I’m qualified to answer this.’
‘I make dirty records sometimes. What the f**k am I doing here?’ Kid Rock said of the pinch-me moments with the former commander-in-chief.