Hunter Biden renews feud with CNN’s Jake Tapper, slams him for ‘attacking my mother’
Hunter Biden accused CNN’s Jake Tapper of “attacking my mother” after the anchor blasted former First Lady Jill Biden’s new memoir and questioned his account of former President Joe Biden’s attitude during the 2024 campaign.
The Prodigal Son fired a post at X after Tapper published a CNN.com analysis of Jill Biden’s memoir, “Watch the East Wing,” in which he challenged her insistence that her husband was not mentally ill in the final months of his presidency.
“So let me get this straight. Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom,” Hunter Biden wrote Wednesday on X.
He went on to recount controversies involving President Trump’s grown children, implying that Tapper was applying distorted standards.
“And I know: ‘But what about your paintings, Hunter?’ Please,” the former first son concluded, referring to his controversial sale of paintings while his pops were in the White House.
The post was the latest twist in the long-running feud between Hunter Biden and Tapper.
Hunter appeared to take issue with Tapper’s recent analysis of Jill Biden’s new memoir, in which she defended her husband’s fitness for office and rejected suggestions that his mental capacity was waning while seeking reelection.
“If you knew Joe Biden well, you would know that if he gets to the point where he can’t do the job, he will step down,” Jill Biden wrote in the letter, according to quotes cited by Tapper.
She added that if her husband had shown signs of mental illness, she and her staff would have agreed, stressing that “he was nowhere near that point in the summer of 2024.”
Tapper strongly disputed that assessment.
“All of that is very hard to believe, if it’s not just a lie,” he wrote.
The CNN host brought up Jill Biden’s assertion that her husband was “nowhere near” mentally retarded in the summer of 2024, questioning whether the same claim could be made in the future.
“The issue was never whether he was good, smart, or had the same values,” Tapper wrote. “It was about his ability to run for president, win the campaign and be president.”
The Biden camp took issue with Tapper over his 2025 tome slamming Biden’s aborted re-election campaign, with Hunter taking his toll.
Hunter accused Tapper of exploiting his father’s struggles for personal and professional gain following the publication of “Original Sin.” Co-authored by Axios’ Alex Thompson, the book examines the former president’s downfall and the efforts of aides and allies to shield him from public view.
Hunter called Tapper “irrelevant,” accused him of doing “poor journalism,” mocked his TV ratings and even suggested that the CNN anchor depends on ChatGPT to produce books.
He also criticized CNN for heavily promoting “Original Sin,” describing the coverage as more than “information” about Tapper’s work.
The bad blood goes back a long way.
Hunter alleged that Tapper contacted her repeatedly when her brother Beau Biden was dying of brain cancer in 2015, saying she told the anchor to “go away” at one point.
Tapper strongly denied those allegations, saying he never had Hunter’s phone number and never harassed him during Beau Biden’s final days.
Hunter also pointed to Tapper last year when he urged Democrats to be more aggressive in dealing with political opponents and media coverage.
He criticized Tapper’s message exchange with Trump, saying it represented “a complete and utter abdication of responsibility as a journalist.”
Asked to comment on Hunter’s latest attack on social media, a CNN spokesperson told The Post: “This investigative piece by Jake Tapper about the widely discussed, news-making book speaks for itself, and is a natural extension of his reporting work based on in-depth coverage of the Biden administration.
“Jake hosts a 2-hour news show with overtime on Sundays where he covers the Trump administration, critically and critically, every day.”
