Overview

• Jake Tapper called Lara Trump roughly two months before his book launch to inform her he planned to tell viewers that she was right about President Biden’s cognitive decline.
• His new book Original Sin, co-authored with Axios’ Alex Thompson, asserts that Biden’s senior aides concealed his cognitive issues from both staff and the public.
• Critics across the political spectrum have dismissed the book as belated and described Tapper’s apology as an inauthentic publicity stunt.
• Lara Trump said she appreciated the acknowledgment but argued the apology arrived too late to undo the impact of Tapper’s earlier rebuke.
• The exchange has reignited disputes over Biden’s health transparency and underscored deep divisions in political media discourse.