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Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s “kowtowing” to President Donald Trump had been disappointing. Host Jake Tapper said, “Is Secretary Rubio able to do the two main jobs there?” Warner said, “I don’t know how anybody could do these two big jobs, and they’re frankly very different. One is actually trying to diplomatically work with friends and adversaries around the world. And unfortunately, the number of adversaries has gone up dramatically as Trump’s approach has been so awful to our allies. The other are our national security adviser...

In an appalling defense of illegal alien criminals, arrested with previous convictions for heinous crimes such as murder, rape, and various sex crimes against children, CNN’s Jake Tapper criticized the Trump White House’s decision to put 100 signs with alien mugshots on the front lawn. In celebration of securing the border in the President’s first 100 days in office, the White House on Monday lined the lawn behind where the media does live shots with yard signs featuring arrested alien criminals’ mugshots and their prior convictions and pending charges. Press members were also provided with a packet listing the names,...

CNN's Jake Tapper launched a scathing attack on CBS owner Shari Redstone for 'bending the knee' to Donald Trump on Tuesday, following the resignation of longtime 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens. Owens, 58, had been the executive producer of the CBS news magazine since 2019, but told staff in a memo on Tuesday that he has come to realize he is no longer able 'to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience' amid the president's $20 billion lawsuit against the network, the New York Times reports. Trump has claimed the network deceptively...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat that included his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the chat told CNN.The revelation comes as some of Hegseth’s closest advisers have begun sounding the alarm about the secretary’s judgment, including his former press secretary, John Ullyot, and three former senior officials Hegseth fired last week — his top adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick, and Colin Carroll, who served as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense.

EX-DNC fundraiser can’t believe the topic of Tapper’s book A prominent former fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) blasted CNN’s Jake Tapper’s upcoming book as "a slap in the face" to people who were scolded for questioning former President Biden’s fitness for office. Lindy Li, a well-known fundraiser who raised money for the Democrats' 2024 presidential campaign, announced her exit from the party in December after being ostracized for criticizing then-Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. She was a loyal supporter of President Biden until she called for him to step aside because he was too old to...

Robby Soave and Niall Stanage weigh in on CNN's Jake Tapper pressing Tim Walz on why the Democratic Party continues to, "gaslight," the American people.

Jake Tapper has denied being "of the left." On Sunday's edition of CNN's State of the Union, host Tapper, in a loaded question, asked Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins: "How long do you anticipate this tariff chaos is going to be going on? 30 days, 60 days, 90 days?" In response, Rollins wryly responded: "We're now two days in, right? You've got two days of data. Everyone, especially on your side, on the left, is freaking out." Snapped back Tapper: "I'm not on the left."That earned a sardonic laugh [see screencap] and "thank you" from Rollins. So, Tapper is "not...

The legacy media has been wrong about everything. COVID origins. Kamala Harris. The economy. The border. Women’s rights. The general mood of the American electorate. Every. Thing. A month into this new administration (gee whiz, has it really only been a month?), the entire American cultural landscape has shifted. Last November 5th, almost overnight America saw a sea-change, both politically and spiritually. Those of us on the right were vindicated after years of battling lockdowns, censorship and weaponized government. Those on the left were confused. Their legacy media idols had been assuring them for months that Kamala Harris was on...

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The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson decided to co-author a book about what had led the Democratic party to defeat, with a focus on former President Joe Biden. The deeply sourced reporters found what they call a “cover-up” of the former president’s “serious decline.” The resulting book, titled “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” is coming out on May 20. The book’s publisher, Penguin Press, announced the project on Wednesday. “What you will learn makes President Biden’s decision to run...

CNN host Jake Tapper said Friday on “The Lead” that Elon Musk is leading a “South African chainsaw massacre” with the Department of Government Efficiency cuts. Tapper said, “New signs that some Republicans are getting a little uncomfortable with some aspects of these massive changes to the federal government being made by President Trump and first, buddy Elon Musk. Cuts being made we should note, with very little transparency, not much compassion, questionable planning and very little apparent attention to detail, at least according to critics. For starters, a plan for deep staff cuts at the Federal Emergency Management Agency,...

President Trump’s brilliant Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller, schooled CNN host Jake Tapper over Trump’s immigration policies.The Trump Administration began its immigration raids and deportation operations on day one of Trump 2.0 last week.As of Tuesday, ICE has arrested more than 3,500 illegal aliens since Trump was sworn into office last week.Jake Tapper tried to get Stephen Miller with a gotcha question on the whole “who’s going to pick the crops” argument but he ended up getting schooled.

CNN host Jake Tapper clashed with White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller on Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s government spending freeze. Defending Trump’s order to freeze hundreds of billions of dollars in government spending – which was blocked by U.S. District Court Judge Loren AliKhan on Tuesday – Miller declared, “President Trump, when he said ‘drain the swamp,’ he meant it. And yes, so those kinds of spending programs are going to be put under review.” Tapper responded: "Okay. I don’t think anybody’s taking issue with if you find money that is being disbursed in an inappropriate way,...

CNN's Jake Tapper warned on Monday that the country was about to enter an "era of deepfakes and all sorts of disinformation" under President Trump, while discussing the Big Tech presence at his inauguration. "We‘re about to enter an era of deepfakes, and all sorts of misinformation and the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or do not play a role, will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are four years from now, in terms of understanding what is true and what is false," Tapper said before Trump took the oath of office. Meta...

CNN anchor Jake Tapper had an on-air meltdown Monday over the presence of several prominent tech figures at Donald Trump's inauguration. The journalist reacted in real-time to moguls like Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos's being present at the ceremony - as was the case with Elon Musk. Honing in on those three men and fellow attendees Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple boss Tim Cook, Tapper called the coalition a cause for concern. 'Those five people... control so much of the information we receive,' the journalist said, days after CNN lost a defamation lawsuit stemming from one of his segments....

CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s jabs at Fox News could come back to bite the network in an upcoming defamation trial over a segment in which Tapper's show falsely accused a Navy veteran of preying on Afghan nationals fleeing the country after the Taliban’s takeover in 2021. A judge in Florida ruled Thursday in favor of Zachary Young, who accuses Tapper and CNN of falsely portraying him as an "illegal profiteer" of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, allowing Young to use Tapper's disparagement of Fox News in November 2023 at trial. Back then, Tapper referred to Fox News as a "cancer on...

VIDEOIt doesn't take much investigative digging to find out that Farah Griffin helped Liz Cheney illegally communicate with Cassidy Hutchinson behind the back of her lawyer. Why? Because, as you can see here, Griffin admitted it in public on CNN's "The Lead" in September 2023. Of note is how host Jake Tapper went into a state of overjoyed excitement over how Griffin and Cheney worked behind the back of Hutchinson's lawyer.

We previously discussed the defamation lawsuit brought by Navy veteran Zachary Young against CNN and anchor Jake Tapper. Young has been doing well in court and last week he won on additional major issues against CNN. In a pair of orders, the jury will be allowed to award punitive damages and his experts would be allowed to be heard by the jury on the damages in the case. It also found that the Navy veteran was not a public figure and thus is not subject to the higher standard of proof associated with that status. The punitive damages decision is...

CNN is reportedly set to nix some of its top talent in a round of post-election layoffs. The rumblings, first reported by Puck News, come as high-paid personalities like Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer were reportedly recently denied raises. The two already boast salaries of $7 million and $3 million, while stars like Anderson Cooper take home an annual $20 million. Kaitlan Collins and Erin Burnett also command inflated earnings - $3 million and $6 million apiece, respectively. {snip} In the next few months, I’m told, CNN will implement another round of layoffs that will impact hundreds of employees across...

CNN host Jake Tapper was stunned by a shocking exit poll Tuesday showing former President Donald Trump substantially leading Vice President Kamala Harris among independent voters in Georgia. “Independent voters — they make up 31% of the electorate” there, CNN political analyst David Chalian noted, before revealing that Trump is “winning them by 11 points” in the swing state of Georgia. CNN’s exit poll found Trump garnering the support of 54% of the Peach State’s independents, compared to Harris’ 43% backing. Chalian pointed out that in the 2020 election, Joe Biden won Georgia independents by a 9-point margin, indicating a...