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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...

CNN's Jake Tapper was left stunned after preliminary analysis showed that Kamala Harris failed to convincingly outperform Joe Biden across any state. The Vice President not only lost to Donald Trump, but appears to have unperformed across the board compared to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Analysis by CNN at around 2am (ET) Wednesday revealed that Harris failed to out perform her boss by three percent in any state. The stark statistics prompted shock from Tapper after he was presented with a map illustrating the dismal performance. 'Holy smokes,' Tapper exclaimed. 'Literally nothing?' The analyst went on to explain...

CNN’s Jake Tapper was shocked during a segment on air after preliminary analysis showed that Kamala Harris had failed to outperform Joe Biden in any state. 'Holy smokes, literally nothing?' Mr Tapper exclaimed on air. Sky News host James Macpherson, Caleb Bond and Liz Storer have reacted to Mr Tapper's reaction to Harris performance during the US election. See video at link.

While leftist media networks prepare to embark on one of the most epic meltdowns in history, Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper over at CNN admitted Donald Trump‘s election victory was the “greatest comeback in history.” Trump declared victory in the early hours of Wednesday morning after the media called the 2024 presidential race for him. Tapper responded to Trump’s historic election win, saying, “It is hard to think of a political comeback that is actually more significant than this one. I’m tempted to say Richard Nixon, but that really falls short of what Donald Trump has achieved.”

On Jan. 12, 2017, I appeared on a CNN panel to discuss current events. It was memorable, and not just because we were taping from the roof of a building near the U.S. Capitol as part of the outlet’s special coverage of Trump’s first inauguration. Just as we were about to go on, we were significantly delayed by President Barack Obama surprising Vice President Joe Biden with a Presidential Medal of Freedom. As I recall, there were maybe five or six of us on set, including former Obama political appointee Jim Sciutto and host Jake Tapper, two of the four...

Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has slammed CNN and its anchor Jake Tapper for pushing the Russia collusion narrative. Vance questioned the news outlet and Tapper for their lack of “integrity” as they sat down for an interview on Sunday. The tense exchange came after Tapper questioned Vance over accusations by John Kelly that Donald Trump wanted generals like Hitler. Kelly’s comments about Trump being a “fascist” went viral last week after it was pushed by the Harris campaign and Democrat lawmakers. The Ohio Senator hit back at the anchor’s question, criticising how CNN fixates on reporting anti-Trump claims. Vance...

VIDEOWith only NINE days left until what Jake Tapper fears will be the Trumpocalypse, his sheer desperation caused poor Jake to drop any pretense of being a journalist and attempted not an interview but a deranged star chamber interrogation of J.D. Vance. Note the stark contrast of Tapper shouting like a lunatic at Vance with his calm demeanor while calmly interviewing Liz Cheney immediately afterwards. Mark down Jake Tapper as perhaps needing to be strapped down to a gurney on the evening of November 5 as he screams incoherently about what a cruel world it is just before a leather...

GOP veep pick JD Vance on Sunday went head to head with CNN host Jake Tapper over former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and the fact that some former top aides have called him a “fascist.” “State of the Union’s” Tapper came out of the gate grilling Vance on Trump’s remarks about an “enemy from within” and retired Gen. John Kelly’s suggestion that his onetime boss fits “into the general definition of fascist.” Vance, 40, in turn belittled Trump turncoats such as Kelly and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) as warmongers, which led to Tapper, 55, to drill down on the...

Jake Tapper's obsession got so strange that Mike Johnson had to implore Tapper to stop it . . . On the Sunday edition of CNN's State of the Union, host Tapper couldn't stop talking about . . . Arnold Palmer's penis. Yes, Trump had alluded to it during a rally in the late, great golfer's hometown of Latrobe, Pennsylvania. But Tapper was absolutely obsessed with it, and wouldn't stop peppering Speaker Johnson on the subject. Trying to move onto policy, Johnson wryly observed, "Jake, you seem to like that line a lot!”Get the rest of the story and view the...

VIDEOMuch of the October 20, 2024 "State Of The Uniton" on CNN was concerned with Jake Tapper's obsession over the size of a certain body part belonging to golfer Arnold Palmer. Tapper just wouldn't let it go to the extent of grilling House Speaker Mike Johnson to weigh in on this topic as if it were the utmost concern of this election. Even Bernie Sanders joined in with Tapper's Arnold Palmer body part obsession.Note: In case you're wondering, NO AI was used to make a certain word pop out of Jake Tapper's mouth over and over again. This all happened...

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that if elected, Vice President Kamala Harris will be persuadable on the U.S. support for Israel in the war. Host Jake Tapper said, “We know the election is going to be very, very close. Michigan has a large Arab-American and Muslim-American population that traditionally votes Democrat. But there’s a lot of concern among Democrats that a lot of those voters are either going to go third party or not going to vote at all in protest of the Biden-Harris support for Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel. What do...