Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, would like CNN journalist Jake Tapper to focus his attention on members of President Donald Trump’s family rather than “attacking” his stepmother, former first lady Jill Biden.
The former first son on Wednesday called out Tapper in a lengthy post on X while pointing out some of the Trump family’s eyebrow-raising moves.
“So let me get this straight. Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom,” he wrote. “Jared [Kushner] and Ivanka [Trump] are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land. Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.”
“Eric [Trump] is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted,” he continued. “And I know: ‘But what about your paintings, Hunter?’ Please.”
Hunter Biden appeared to be responding to Tapper’s less-than-positive take on Jill Biden’s new memoir, “View from the East Wing.” In it, the former first lady offers candid assessments of her husband’s one-term presidency and his controversial decision to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race.
On Tuesday, Tapper heavily criticized Jill Biden’s “rosy if not blindfolded” recollection of events in a CNN article, describing former President Joe Biden as “the most glaring example” of a past-his-prime politician who “refused to give up power.”
“The most charitable interpretation of Jill Biden’s book, particularly the parts dealing with her husband’s aging, is that she’s having difficulty accepting what’s been happening to him for years,” Tapper wrote. “The less forgiving version is that she’s been enabling it and is now seeking to try to find an excuse for what we all saw, while also suggesting here and there that there’s much more than maybe even she’s willing to admit to herself.”
In a video posted to CNN’s Instagram account Wednesday, Tapper reiterated many of his remarks, deeming Jill Biden “the queen of omission.”
Last year, Tapper drew the ire of many prominent Democrats when he and Axios reporter Alex Thompson unveiled their book “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which scrutinized the former president’s physical fitness and mental acuity while in office.
In an October interview with Mediaite’s Tommy Christopher, Hunter Biden accused Tapper of practicing “what-about-ism journalism, a both-sides journalism” that was detrimental to the profession.
“I think Jake’s got to cool it on the ChatGPT and maybe give it at least a four-month period of time before he gives us another book,” he said. “I don’t know many of his colleagues that like him or that respect him.”