Fox News host and former Republican National Committee chair Lara Trump indicated she is not totally buying regret expressed by CNN anchor Jake Tapper over how he handled an interview he conducted with her last fall, during which he dismissed concerns about former President Biden’s mental acuity.
“Jake Tapper called me about two month ago, actually. And he said, I have this book coming out. And I know everybody is saying that I should apologize to you,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” on Tuesday.
Tapper told Trump during the phone call his plan was, “whenever the book comes out, to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong. And I guess to Jake’s credit, he did that.”
Trump said on Tuesday the “damage” of Democrats and media outlets turning what she and other Republicans have said is a blind eye to Biden’s condition during the final months of his presidency was “already done.”
“We were so close to something so dangerous happening to this country,” she said. “And Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and come out and say that I was right.”
During the interview in question, Tapper appeared to dismiss concerns Trump, then the co-chair of her father in law’s campaign, was raising about Biden’s mental fitness for office.
As he beat back criticism stemming from his new book on Biden’s failed re-election bid, Tapper last week acknowledged the interview with Trump, saying “she saw something I did not see, and I own that.”
