Tapper said the news about Hunter Biden’s business dealings “directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate.” CNN host and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper said that former President Donald Trump “was right” when he said that Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden accepted a lot of foreign money during the 2020 presidential debates.
Tapper also said on CNN’s “The Lead” on Thursday that Biden “was wrong” when the two ran against each other three years ago, and Biden rejected Trump’s claims that his son made “a fortune in Ukraine, China, Moscow, and other places.”
At the time, Biden told the reporter, “None of that is true.” Tapper gave Biden the benefit of the doubt in his comments, saying he didn’t know if the then-candidate was “lying” at the time.
Tapper played a collection of the two debates and compared it to a recent report from the top fact checker at the Washington Post, Glenn Kessler, that showed Biden was wrong.
The host said, “Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post did a fact check on Joe Biden earlier this month. He said that Hunter Biden admitted in court in July that he had been paid a lot of money by Chinese companies.”
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Tapper said, “Kessler wrote, ‘Hunter Biden reported nearly $2.4 million in income in 2017 and $2.2 million in income in 2018.'”
He then took a shot at what Biden said about 2020 and showed clips from the debates. “This directly contradicts what Joe Biden said in the 2020 debate with Donald Trump,” he said. “Listen up.”
Tapper said that Trump was right about Hunter Biden’s business deals after showing a video of then-President Trump’s claims and Biden’s denials.
“Okay, so this came up in two different talks, but Trump was right. He did make a lot of money in China, so Joe Biden was wrong,” Tapper said.
“I don’t know that he was lying,” he said about Biden’s statement. Hunter might not have told him that this blind spot is a problem, but it is.
After Tapper asked his panelists if they thought this blind spot would be a problem for the president in the future, former Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., played down the issue by saying, “Well, I think dads and parents sometimes have blind spots about their kids, and the president may be no different.” But nothing has linked any of Hunter Biden’s deals to the president. He could not be responsible for it or blamed for it.
“I don’t think the voters care much about it,” he said.
Even though Biden rejected his son’s alleged shady business deals while running for president, CNN recently said that the president has been “very obsessed” with the topic and sensitive to how it is presented in the media.
On Thursday, John Avlon of CNN said, “And in private, I’ve heard that he’s very obsessed with the bad news about Hunter. He’s worried about it, and it’s making him mad. And it’s easy to see why. But not one that his friends want to bring up because it would stop the conversation.”
