Overview

• Jake Tapper alerted Lara Trump roughly two months ago that he would on-air apologize for accusing her of mocking Joe Biden’s stutter in 2020.
• Original Sin, co-authored with Axios’s Alex Thompson, alleges Biden’s top aides concealed his cognitive shortcomings from staffers and the public.
• MeidasTouch’s Ron Filipkowski denounced the apology as a “contrived fake” intended to pander to MAGA supporters and boost book sales.
• Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann demanded Tapper’s dismissal while commentator Mehdi Hasan criticized mainstream journalists for yielding to Trump allies.
• Lara Trump acknowledged Tapper kept his word but said the apology arrived too late to undo the harm from his earlier criticism.