Well, the Biden family media defense squad is back in action—and this time it’s Hunter Biden taking center stage in a very public meltdown over CNN’s Jake Tapper daring to criticize former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir.
Tapper recently published a sharp analysis of Jill Biden’s book “View from the East Wing,” and let’s just say he wasn’t exactly sending flowers. He questioned her rosy portrayal of Joe Biden’s condition heading into the 2024 election, suggesting the account strains credibility and downplays concerns that were already swirling around the White House.
In the memoir, Jill Biden insists her husband was fully capable of doing the job and not suffering from cognitive issues at the time. Tapper highlighted her claim that if Joe Biden had shown serious decline, she would have acknowledged it—while immediately pushing back on the idea, noting the long history of politicians clinging to power despite obvious decline.
He argued the issue was never about Biden’s character or “values,” but whether he was fit to run the country and win an election in the first place.
Enter Hunter Biden.
Never one to sit out a political brawl, the president’s son jumped onto X and accused Tapper of going after his mother instead of focusing elsewhere. In classic Hunter fashion, he mixed outrage with a side of online chaos, writing: “So let me get this straight… Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom,” before launching into a rambling comparison involving the Trump family and other political figures.
CNN, for its part, backed its star anchor, saying Tapper’s analysis “speaks for itself.”
The spat comes as Tapper continues to face backlash from Biden-world circles after co-authoring a book with Axios reporter Alex Thompson, which documented efforts by White House insiders to shield concerns about Biden’s cognitive condition from public view.
That reporting gained renewed attention after Biden’s infamous 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump, where he stumbled through answers and delivered the now-legendary line, “We finally beat Medicare,” a moment that only intensified scrutiny and ultimately preceded his withdrawal from the reelection race.
Now, with Jill Biden trying to rewrite the narrative in memoir form and Hunter Biden firing off late-night social media salvos, the Democratic orbit’s internal tensions are once again spilling into public view—loudly, messily, and very much in real time.
