Poilievre on Joe Rogan: From the apple video to a Trudeau conspiracy

Poilievre: That’s why, I think, I was so relaxed. But, so I’m in the most beautiful place in the world. If you ever, if you haven’t been to the Okanagan, it’s unbelievable. Like, it’s lakes, it’s mountains, it’s nice dry weather and there’s orchards and vineyards there. Like you’d love it. And so I’m in an apple orchard and I’m walking around just talking with people and my staff says, “This reporter wants to do an interview” and I’m enjoying the apple. He comes up and starts asking questions. Nobody who was there thought this was a moment. Like we’d thought nothing of it. We dumped the whole thing — my staff, unbeknownst to me, was recording my whole walk. We dumped this 15-minute video on the internet. No one noticed it. And like three weeks later, my phone blows up and people say, “Hey, how about that apple?” I’m what is, what are they talking about, this apple thing? And then, you know, within three days, everybody’s talking to me about this damn apple that I had almost forgotten about eating. So, it’s one of the weird things —