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The Rich Zeoli Show

Jake Tapper Apologizes to Lara Trump

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- Jake Tapper’s new book, “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which is critical of the Biden Administration for covering up the president’s physical and cognitive decline released earlier this month. Notably, during an interview with Lara Trump in 2024, Tapper vociferously denied Joe Biden was experiencing any sort of cognitive decline and suggested that people were merely picking on the then-president for suffering from a life-long stutter. Trump revealed that Tapper has since called her and apologized. 6:30pm- In a hidden video interview conducted by Project Veritas, Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee David Hogg and former Biden Administration staffer Deterrian Jones revealed that Jill Biden’s Chief of Staff Anthony Bernal “had an enormous amount of power.” Jones continued: “The general public wouldn't know how this man looked, but he wielded an enormous amount of power. I can't stress to you enough how much power he had at the White House.” 6:35pm- While appearing on CNN, Alex Thompson—Axios reporter and co-author of “Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again”—revealed that Biden Administration cabinet members were not confident that Joe Biden was capable of handling a “2 am crisis,” if one were to occur. So, who was in charge? 6:40pm- During a segment on PBS, host Judy Woodruff examined whether the president—Donald Trump specifically—has the authority to unilaterally launch a nuclear strike. Why wasn’t PBS expressing similar concern when, according to recent reports, a cognitively fading Joe Biden held the presidency?

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0:00.0

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0:03.7

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0:05.4

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0:08.2

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0:11.7

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0:15.9

As I'm doing the show today from New York, Fox News, I was on there for about, oh, 30 seconds, and I got bumped.

0:20.5

But that's okay.

0:21.5

30 seconds is better than no seconds. So there you go.

0:26.9

Jake Tapper, what a joke he is.

0:30.5

Laura Trump talked about the apology phone call that Jake Tapper made five years.

0:37.2

Five years after he scolded her for saying that Biden was exhibiting cognitive decline.

0:45.0

So she spoke with Laura Ingram and explained how the call went.

0:50.7

Cut 16.

0:51.9

Tapper called me about two months ago, actually.

0:54.8

And he said, I have this book coming out.

0:58.2

And I know everybody's saying that I should apologize to you.

1:02.5

I plan whenever the book comes out to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong.

1:08.7

And I guess to Jake's credit, he did that. Now, Laura, I think the

1:12.5

overarching thing here, though, is that the damage is done, right? We were so close to something so

1:17.3

dangerous happening to this country. I mean, look at what actually happened. Look at the millions of

1:21.2

illegal immigrants able to pour in. People are questioning now, you know, who was actually in charge

1:25.4

of this country? I guess whoever was in charge of the auto pen, we really have to think about what would have happened if Joe Biden would

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