Hunter Biden accused CNN’s Jake Tapper of “attacking my mom” after the anchor blasted former First Lady Jill Biden’s new memoir and questioned her account of former President Joe Biden’s mental state during the 2024 campaign.
The prodigal son fired off the broadside in a post on X after Tapper published a CNN.com analysis of Jill Biden’s memoir, “View from the East Wing,” in which he challenged her insistence that her husband was not suffering from cognitive impairment during the final months of his presidency.
“So let me get this straight. Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom,” Hunter Biden wrote Wednesday on X.
He went on to recount controversies involving President Trump’s adult children, implying Tapper was using distorted standards.
“And I know: ‘But what about your paintings, Hunter?’ Please,” the former first son concluded, referring to his controversial sale of paintings while his pops was in the White House.
The post was the latest twist in the long-running feud between Hunter Biden and Tapper.
Hunter appeared to be taknig issue with a recent Tapper analysis of Jill Biden’s new memoir, in which she defends her husband’s fitness for office and rejects suggestions that his mental powers were declining while seeking reelection.
“If you knew Joe Biden well, you’d know that if he actually got to the point where he wasn’t capable of doing the job, he would step down,” Jill Biden writes in the book, according to excerpts cited by Tapper.
She adds that if her husband had exhibited cognitive impairment, she and his staff would have acknowledged it, insisting he was “nowhere near that point in the summer of 2024.”
Tapper sharply disputed that assessment.
“All of that is very difficult to believe, if not just downright false,” he wrote.
The CNN host singled out Jill Biden’s assertion that her husband was “nowhere near” cognitive impairment during the summer of 2024, asking whether the same claim could credibly be made about later periods.
“The issue was never about whether he was good, wise, or had the same values,” Tapper wrote. “It was about his ability to run for president, to win the campaign, and to serve as president.”
The Biden camp raged at Tapper over his 2025 tome trashing Biden’s aborted reelection campaign, with Hunter taking an especially personal tone.
Hunter accused Tapper of exploiting his father’s struggles for personal and professional gain following the publication of “Original Sin.” Co-authored by Axios’ Alex Thompson, the book examined the former president’s decline and the efforts of aides and allies to shield it from public view.
Hunter called Tapper “irrelevant,” accused him of practicing “poor journalism,” mocked his TV ratings and even suggested the CNN anchor relies on ChatGPT to produce books.
He also criticized CNN for heavily promoting “Original Sin,” describing the coverage as little more than an “infomercial” for Tapper’s work.
The bad blood stretches back much further.
Hunter has alleged that Tapper repeatedly contacted him while his brother Beau Biden was dying of brain cancer in 2015, claiming he told the anchor to “go f–k yourself” during one call.
Tapper strongly denied those allegations, saying he never had Hunter’s phone number and never harassed him during Beau Biden’s final days.
Hunter again targeted Tapper last year while urging Democrats to get more aggressive in confronting political opponents and media narratives.
He blasted Tapper over a text-message exchange with Trump, saying it represented “a complete and utter abdication of responsibility as a journalist.”
Asked for comment about Hunter’s latest social media attack, a CNN spokesperson told The Post: “This analysis piece by Jake Tapper about a widely discussed, newsmaking book speaks for itself, and is a natural extension of his deeply-sourced reporting work on the Biden administration.
“Jake hosts a 2-hour daily news program with an additional hour on Sundays where he covers the Trump administration, in depth and critically, every single day.”
