Jake Tapper Unloads On ‘Sleazy’ Hunter Biden After Dismissing Scandals During Biden Admin

After years of dismissing the Hunter-centric scandals that plagued former President Joe Biden’s White House, CNN anchor Jake Tapper unloaded on Hunter Biden during a recent interview with longtime journalist Katie Couric.

Tapper spoke with Couric alongside Axios reporter Alex Thompson — with whom he wrote the new book, “Original Sin,” about the obvious physical and cognitive decline of the former president and the lengths to which those around him went to cover that up. But when the conversation turned to Hunter Biden, Tapper said that he’d found former President Joe Biden’s embattled son to be “unethical, sleazy, and prone to bad decisions.”

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TAPPER: “I think he is provably, demonstrably, unethical, sleazy and prone to horrible decisions.”

COURIC: “Tell me how you really feel.”

TAPPER: “Just look at the record: after his brother died, he cheated on his wife… pic.twitter.com/MF6d02j5t1

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“How big a factor was the Hunter stuff?” Couric asked, referencing the now-infamous laptop, which the Biden White House and dozens of former intelligence community officials had repeatedly tried to pass off as “Russian disinformation.”

“I think it was considerable,” Tapper began as Thompson nodded in agreement. “I think Hunter was driving the decision-making for the family in a way that people — he was almost like a chief of staff of the family.”

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“Does that strike you as pretty bizarre?” Couric pressed.

Tapper agreed: “It’s bizarre because I think he is provably, demonstrably, unethical, sleazy and prone to horrible decisions, I mean —”

“Tell me how you really feel,” Couric interjected.

“Well, I — Just look at the record: after his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother’s widow and then got her addicted to crack,” Tapper continued. “That’s just one thing I could say. I mean, there — I don’t have a lot of personal regard for him, and just based on — having nothing to do with — I barely have ever met him, I’ve met him once or twice. But I knew Beau. Beau was a great, upstanding guy.”

“I knew him too,” Couric said. “A really —”

“A real loss,” Tapper said. “For the country too, not just for his family, for the country. But Hunter is not that, and the idea of letting him drive the family car, as it were, is just really, really questionable.”

Nearly five years earlier, however — as Joe Biden neared the finish line of the 2020 presidential election and shortly after the New York Post had dropped the bombshell that was the Hunter Biden laptop story — Tapper had dismissed the allegations against Hunter Biden as “wildly unhinged” and “too disgusting” for him to repeat on air.

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On Oct. 22, 2020, CNN’s Jake Tapper declared that the growing allegations made against Hunter Biden following the NY Post’s reporting on Hunter’s laptop were “too disgusting” to repeat on-air and “wildly unhinged.” pic.twitter.com/djhFlDK8kz

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