Megyn Kelly Holds Tapper To The Fire: ‘You Seemed To Be Running Cover For The President’

SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly has ripped into CNN anchor Jake Tapper over an incident five years ago when he pushed back against President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.

In 2020, Tapper interviewed Lara Trump and claimed she was “mocking” Biden’s stutter.

Tapper appeared on “The Megyn Kelly Show” this week to discuss his and Axios reporter Alex Thompson’s new book describing concerns over Biden’s mental fitness during his term as president.

“You covered the Biden presidency aggressively throughout the four years, and you didn’t cover mental acuity hardly at all. Time and time again, when issues came up you seem to be running cover for the president,” Kelly said.

“I don’t think that’s true,” Tapper said.

Throughout Biden’s time in the White House, Tapper, among other media pundits and Democrats, defended Biden against concerns about his mental fitness. Biden’s supporters dismissed videos of the former president stumbling and misspeaking.

Kelly went on to play a clip of Tapper ripping into Lara Trump and saying she had “no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.” (RELATED: Jake Tapper Tells Megyn Kelly Two Shocking Words He Sent His Team During Biden’s Debate Meltdown)

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“Do you want to apologize to Laura Trump now?” Kelly asked.

“I’ve already apologized to her,” Tapper said. “I called her months ago.”

Since announcing his new book about Biden, Tapper has slowly begun to call out Democrats and admitted that conservatives were correct about Biden’s mental fitness. Tapper’s and Thompson’s book said that at one point the former president’s health deteriorated so badly that aides discussed putting him in a wheelchair.

Kelly asked what Lara Trump said after he apologized. Tapper said he wouldn’t “disclose the contents of a private conversation.”

“She was totally right,” Kelly said. “When I watch that clip and I’m giving voice to what a lot of people watching the show are feeling, Jake, I feel angry because she was right. And not only did you not allow her to make her comments, but you seem to try to humiliate her.”

“You had a hostility toward the position. But she was totally right. And then you lecture her on how she was in no position to diagnose cognitive decline, which you guys do at length, including on page four of your book. You describe at length his cognitive decline, which is all she tried to do with you,” Kelly added. “But you had such a visceral reaction to her. My feeling is that’s because you didn’t want to hear it.”

On Sunday, Biden’s office said the former president had been diagnosed with “a more aggressive form” of prostate cancer that had already metastasized to the bone. Doctors and cancer experts have questioned the timeline of Biden’s diagnosis, with some pointing out that the state of his cancer couldn’t have developed in the last “100, 200 days.”

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