Flashback July 2020: Jake Tapper Blasts Trump Aide for Criticizing His Dinner Buddy Fauci

Newsbusters ^ | July 28, 2026 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

The Anthony Fauci diary has proven to be a treasure trove of exposing, among many other things, the very close relations between Fauci and the media that was supposedly covering him. Apparently it turned out that they went beyond covering him to the realm of covering up for him to the extent that they were unable to tolerate any criticism of Fauci.

One of the big examples of Fauci's comfy relationship with the media was the coverage/coverup of him by CNN's Jake Tapper to the extent that he got as nasty in 2020 over criticism of Fauci in the Trump White House, specifically by Trade Adviser Peter Navarro, as he was when snapping at Lara Trump in the same year for suggesting that Joe Biden suffered from cognitive decline.

Here is the segment from the July 15, 2020 edition of The Lead in which a highly agitated Jake Tapper went full snarl at the very idea that his beloved Anthony Fauci could be subjected to criticism.

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[PJ-Comix]

At Jake Tapper's home dinners for Fauci, he served up Wuhan Bat soup with a side Pangolin pâté.

[ryderann]

I haven’t been following this. Who got ahold of Fauci’s diary, and how did it get to interested parties? What has been exposed is VERY interesting.

[PJ-Comix]

Who got ahold of Fauci’s diary, and how did it get to interested parties? What has been exposed is VERY interesting.

RFK, Jr. found it after apparently searching government servers.

[Iron Munro]

It’s hard to believe that the ancestors of these limp-wristed, suicidal Brits once ruled the waves and most of the known (to the west) world.

[bray]

Remember the sanctimony Tapper and his friends had since they were all pretend physicians and wanting to put us in concentration camps.

[ryderann]

Many thanks.