Anchor of CNN Jake Tapper on Tuesday admitted during a pointed exchange with Megyn Kelly for apologizing Lara Trump for resting her concerns for Joe Biden’s cognitive fall during a 2020 viral interview.
Tapper told Kelly that he felt “extraordinary humility” about his past coverage of the former president as he linked his next book, “Sin Original: The Fall of President Biden, his cover and his catastrophic choice to run again” in its podcast.
In the book, Tapper and co -author Alex Thompson, a contributor to CNN, detail how democratic internals defended the state of Biden from public appearance because they were afraid of a second term of Trump.
“She saw something I didn’t see at the time – 100% – and I own it,” Tapper told Lara Trump during the tense interview in The Megyn Kelly Show.
Printed by Kelly if he had apologized, Tapper replied, “I already apologized to her. I called it months ago.”
He said the conversation “went well” and that the president’s bride explained that she had never thought about mocking Biden’s stuttering.
“After we did the research on this book and I realized how bad the issues of his sharpness were, I called Lara Trump and said,” You were right, “Tapper said.
His Mea Culpa was about four years too late. In a 2020 CNN interview with Lara Trump, Tapper suddenly finished their conversation after broadcasting a clip of her making a joke about Biden’s stop speech.
“Joe, can you get it out, let’s get the words, Joe,” she said in the clip.
Tapper accused him of ridicule of a disability: “How do you think you make young children with stutters feel when you see you make such a comment?”
Lara Trump pushed again, saying, “First and most importantly, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stuttering. I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline.”
Tapper left work: “I think you are making fun of his stuttering. I think you have absolutely no attitude to diagnose someone’s cognitive fall.”
Following the news of Tapper’s book, Lara Trump revived the exchange criticism.
“It seems like a good time to remind everyone that in 2020 Jake Tapper, first, accused me of having fun with people with a stuttering (a cruel accusation) and then tried to close me and ended our interview when I tried to warn Joe Biden’s very visible cognitive people,” she posted at the 2020 scope. Headins of media lines.
Critics on social media have accused Tapper and CNN of hypocrisy, saying they were collaborators in minimizing Biden’s fitness until politically appropriate.
The post has requested comment from Lara Trump.
During his interview with Kelly, Tapper said the cover extended beyond the press.
He and Thompson interviewed more than 200 Democrats internal, many of whom admitted to minimizing Biden’s condition for fear of a Trump victory.
“They justified everything in their minds,” Tapper said. “After the elections, they were extremely ready to speak to us.”
According to Tapper, the assistants described “two bidens” – a competent and a significantly injured.
He added that signs of deterioration appeared as early as 2015, after Beau Biden’s death, and worsened after Hunter Biden’s legal problems.
During their exchange, Kelly repeatedly pressing why he failed to confront Biden about his obvious cognitive issues after a widely published gaffe involving the late Jackie Walorski – the Republic Congress who died in a 2022 car accident, alongside its two staff.
Weekly after the accident, Biden asked “Where is Jackie?” During a White House event – despite being publicly mourning her death a month ago. At the same time, Tapper sat with the president for an interview.
However, as Kelly pointed out, he never raised the incident or asked Biden about his mental sharpness.
“You were low at him and you didn’t ask any of this,” Kelly said. “Despite the fact that he had promised you that he would be completely transparent for his health issues.”
Kelly stressed that Tapper had previously provided a commitment from Biden in 2020 to release his medical records – a promise that Biden failed to honor.
Despite that broken pledge and the alarming nature of the moment Walorski, Tapper chose to ask wider questions about Biden’s age, rather than directly handling him with examples of real -time cognitive errors.
“You know just like me,” Kelly said, “there is a way you can say,” Hey, there is this survey at your age, “or you might say,” You just forgot that Jackie Walorski was dead. “”
She suggested that Tapper’s framing allowed Biden to avoid real accountability, especially at a time when public suspicions of his mental ability were intensifying.
In response, Tapper accepted the release, saying, “This is correct. I didn’t.”
He defended his decision by pointing out that the interview included heavy topics such as foreign policy and war in Ukraine, but difficult to admit that he wanted him to pus him more into Biden’s mental sharpness.
“I look back on my cover with humility,” he said. “I wish I could cover the issues of age and sharpness, but I wish I had covered them much more.”
Kelly was meaningless in her criticism, arguing that the media failure to print Biden allowed a greater “coverage” to continue, one that Tapper himself now dissects in his book.
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