Years before Jake Tapper decided to write a buzzy tell-all about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, the CNN anchor had a long-simmering feud with the former president’s son Hunter that featured a heated confrontation at a Super Bowl and threats of violence.
Amid Tapper’s non-stop promotional tour for Original Sin, the explosive behind-the-scenes exposé he co-wrote with Axios correspondent Alex Thompson, Biden-world has had the knives out for the veteran journalist – especially over damning accusations of a “cover-up” to hide the ex-president’s fading mental acuity.