Lara Trump said that CNN anchor Jake Tapper's apology for ignoring the signs of then-President Joe Biden's cognitive impairment is a "bit too late," Fox News reported. The former Republican National Committee chair slammed Tapper for this on Tuesday's The Ingraham Angle on Fox News.
Earlier this month, Tapper released the book Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again. In it, he blames the White House for keeping the situation under wraps even though it was obvious to everyone.
To save face, Tapper has thrown out a few mea culpas about his role in the cover-up that led to Biden staying in the race too long before stepping down. Trump doesn't buy it and thinks Tapper took way too long to come clean.
"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 has come out and said that I was right," Trump told host Laura Ingraham about Tapper's admission.
On Monday's Piers Morgan Uncensored, Tapper acknowledged that the cover-up of Biden's mental decline was "worse" than the Watergate scandal. He also apologized to Trump after a disagreement they had early on about whether Biden was already showing signs of some sort of mental deficit during the 2020 presidential election.
She and Tapper got into a tussle during an episode of State of the Union in October of that year. When Trump brought up Biden's confusion and other issues, Tapper claimed Trump was unfairly judging Biden for his stutter.
"I think you were mocking his stutter," Tapper claimed at the time. "And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline," he charged.
It only took Tapper five years to get around to apologizing to Trump, as he called her to say he was sorry about two months before the book's release. "Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she was right, and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline," Tapper told Morgan.
Even with the apology, Trump still believes that Tapper can't "discount his role" in perpetuating this scandal for so long. It seems Tapper only had an attack of conscience now that there was nothing to lose by admitting it.
"No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, 'You know what, we're going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.' It's too late," Trump said.
"You can't do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you're going to get any different result. It's the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now," she added.
This issue is more than just political for Lara Trump. As the wife of President Donald Trump's son Eric Trump, she had a front-row seat for the coordinated effort to keep her father-in-law, Donald Trump, out of the White House at all costs.
Tapper is finally doing the right thing now, but he was complicit in the effort to shield the truth from the public when it suited his purpose. What he did is shameful, but the fact that he will make money from a book about it is particularly distasteful.
