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Jake Tapper admits ‘Trump was right,’ ‘Biden was wrong’

about Hunter Biden in 2020 presidential debate
Tapper noted reporting on Hunter Biden's business dealings 'directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate'
By Gabriel Hays Fox News

Published August 19, 2023 2:36pm EDT

Jake Tapper admits ‘Trump was right,’ ‘Biden was wrong’ about Hunter Biden in 2020 presidential debate
CNN host Jake Tapper admitted that former President Donald Trump "was right" during the 2020 presidential debates when he accused then-presidential
candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden of accepting large amounts of foreign money.

CNN host and chief Washington correspondent Jake Tapper admitted that former
President Donald Trump "was right" when he accused then-presidential candidate Joe
Biden’s son Hunter Biden of accepting large amounts of foreign money during the 2020
presidential debates.

On CNN's "The Lead" Thursday, Tapper also declared that Biden "was wrong" during the
match-ups between the two candidates three years ago, when the then-Democratic
nominee denied Trump’s allegations that his son made "a fortune in Ukraine, in China, in
Moscow and various other places."

At the time Biden flatly rejected the claim, saying, "None of that is true." Tapper gave Biden
the benefit of the doubt in his commentary, stating he didn’t know whether the then-
was "lying" at the time.

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In a Thursday segment, CNN anchor Jake Tapper admitted "Trump was right" when he accused Hunter Biden of accepting
large amounts of foreign money during the 2020 presidential debates. (Screenshot/CNN)

Tapper played a compilation of the two debate exchanges and compared them with a
recent report from Washington Post chief-fact checker Glenn Kessler showing Biden to be
wrong.

The host stated, "Glenn Kessler from the Washington Post had a fact check about Joe
Biden from earlier this month noting that Hunter Biden admitted in court in July that he
was in fact paid substantial sums from Chinese companies."

Citing the piece, Tapper said, " Kessler wrote ‘Hunter Biden reported nearly 2.4 million in
,

income in 2017 and 2.2 million in income in 2018,’ most of which came from Chinese or
Ukrainian interests."

He then took a swipe at Biden’s 2020 claims, before playing footage from the debates,
"This directly goes against what Joe Biden said in the debate in 2020 with Donald Trump.
Take a listen."

After playing the footage of then-President Trump’s allegations and Biden’s denial, Tapper
admitted that Trump was correct about Hunter Biden's business dealings.

"So this is from two different debates but, I mean, Trump was right. mean, he did make a I

fortune from China and Joe Biden was wrong," Tapper declared.

HUNTER BIDEN SPECIAL COUNSEL APPOINTMENT CALLED ‘DEBACLE’ FOR BIDEN

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT

President Biden has snapped at reporters who have asked him about alleged corruption involving him and his son, Hunter
Biden, who's been engaged in several controversial foreign business deals. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

About Biden’s denial, he added, "I don’t know that he was lying about it. He might not have
been told by Hunter, but this blind spot is a problem."

After Tapper asked his panelists whether they considered this blind spot to be an issue for
the president going forward, former Rep. Andy Levin, D-Mich., played the issue off, saying,
"Well I think dads sometimes, and parents sometimes, have blind spots about their kids
for sure and the president may be no exception. But nothing has tied the president to any
of Hunter Biden’s dealings. There’s no whiff of him being involved or implicated in it."

"I think it’s not something the voters care a lot about," he added.

Though Biden denied his son’s alleged corrupt business dealings while on the presidential
campaign trail, CNN recently mentioned that the president has been "very obsessed" with
the topic and sensitive to how it’s being portrayed in the media.

Earlier on Thursday, CNN’s John Avlon stated "And in private also, I've heard reports that
,

he’s very obsessed with the negative coverage of Hunter. He’s concerned about it, it’s an
irritant. And that’s understandable. But not one that allies around him want to raise
because it will derail a conversation."

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Gabriel Hays is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.

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