Hunter Biden renews feud with CNNs Jake Tapper blasting him for attacking my mom

Hunter Biden accused CNN’s Jake Tapper of “attacking my mom” after the anchor blasted former First Lady Jill Biden’s new memoir and questioned her account of former President Joe Biden’s mental state during the 2024 campaign.The prodigal son fired off the broadside in a post on X after Tapper published a CNN.com analysis of Jill Biden’s memoir, “View from the East Wing,” in which he challenged her insistence that her husband was not suffering from cognitive impairment during the final months of his presidency.“So let me get this straight.Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom,” Hunter Biden wrote Wednesday on X.He went on to recount controversies involving President Trump’s adult children, implying Tapper was using distorted standards.“And I know: ‘But what about your paintings, Hunter?’ Please,” the former first son concluded, referring to his controversial sale of paintings while his pops was in the White House.The post was the latest twist in the long-running feud between Hunter Biden and Tapper.Hunter appeared to be taknig issue with a recent Tapper analysis of Jill Biden’s new memoir, in which she defends her husband’s fitness for office and rejects suggestions that his mental powers were declining while seeking reelection.“If you knew Joe Biden well, you’d know that if he actually got to the point where he wasn’t capable of doing the job, he would step down,” Jill Biden writes in the book, according to excerpts cited by Tapper.She adds that if her husband had exhibited cognitive impairment, she and his staff would have acknowledged it, insisting he was “nowhere near that point in the summer of 2024.”Tapper sharply disputed that assessment.“All of that is very difficult to believe, if not just downright false,” he wrote.The CNN host singled out Jill Biden’s assertion that her husband was “nowhere near” cognitive impairment during the summer of 2024, asking whether the same claim could credibly be made...