It hasn’t been a good month for former First Son Hunter Biden after his father’s admissions about having cancer put him back under the spotlights.
The walls are closing in on Hunter Biden again.
And now Hunter Biden is turning on his biggest protectors in a shocking curse-filled outburst.
Hunter Biden declares a bitter feud with CNN anchor
Hunter Biden has been in the spotlight for years as controversy has swirled around him.
But the 55-year-old son of former President Joe Biden just alleged a long-running feud with CNN host Jake Tapper that reveals the ugly side of media relationships with political families.
In a rare interview with media newsletter Breaker on Wednesday, Hunter claimed that he once told Tapper to “go f**k yourself” after the CNN anchor made repeated calls to him while his brother Beau was dying of brain cancer in 2015.
“It would be impossible to forget or misremember something that upsetting and out of line during one of the toughest moments of my life,” Hunter told Breaker. “It happened. I was furious.”
Tapper allegedly called repeatedly during Beau’s final days
According to sources close to the situation, Tapper made multiple calls to Hunter’s cell phone while the Biden family was gathered at Walter Reed National Medical Center in May 2015 as Beau lay on his deathbed.
After Hunter ignored these calls, Tapper reportedly called from a blocked number, which Hunter answered.
When Tapper allegedly asked Hunter to call him when Beau died, Hunter responded with the profane dismissal, according to those present during the incident.
The confrontation didn’t end there.
Super Bowl showdown nearly turned violent
Two years later, the pair came face-to-face at Super Bowl LII in Minneapolis, where witnesses reported an angry interaction.
When reportedly Tapper approached Hunter to shake his hand, Biden’s son allegedly told the CNN host that “I would knock you out” if they weren’t in a public setting.
This explosive revelation shows how personal the tensions between media figures and the subjects they cover can become, especially during times of family crisis.
Tapper denies Hunter’s account
Tapper has flatly denied Hunter’s version of events, calling it “a patently false lie.”
“At no point in my life have I ever called Hunter Biden — I’ve never even had his phone number — and I would never have contacted a person’s immediate family during such a challenging and personal time,” Tapper said in a statement.
The CNN anchor acknowledged the Super Bowl confrontation but claimed it was over different issues. “Hunter did once confront me at a Super Bowl party, but it was over an unrelated issue — coverage he wrongly believed I had done regarding divorce allegations of drug use and using prostitutes, which I actually had never done,” Tapper told Breaker.
However, a review of CNN archives shows Tapper did discuss allegations about Hunter’s drug use during an October 2014 segment, contradicting his claim.
Tapper returns fire
Hunter revealed the supposed feud as Tapper is promoting his new book Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, co-authored with Axios reporter Alex Thompson.
The tome points the finger at a Biden coverup however, it serves as an attempt to whitewash the media and Democrats’ own complicity in an enfeebled president clinging to power.
During a promotional interview on Katie Couric’s Next Question podcast Tuesday, Tapper launched a blistering attack on Hunter.
“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,” Tapper said. “It’s bizarre because I think he is provably, demonstrably unethical, sleazy, and prone to horrible decisions.”
Tapper didn’t stop there, making a shocking personal attack on Hunter’s behavior after Beau’s death.
“After his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother’s widow and then got her addicted to crack. That’s just one thing I could say,” Tapper said. “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 like once or twice.”
Source describes Hunter’s fury
A source who spoke with Hunter after the Walter Reed incident described his reaction to Tapper’s call: “It was obviously transparent niceties and then right to business as if the one thing Hunter is thinking about as Beau is dying is let me give Jake Tapper an exclusive. He was furious about it.”
Tapper’s spokesperson dismissed the allegations, saying, “The idea that Jake could do something so heartless — and yet the Bidens would subsequently offer him multiple sit-down interviews as well as agree to him moderating the debate, all without anyone hearing about it until now — completely defies logic.”
The accusations come amid reports that CNN stars were frustrated by a lack of access to the Biden White House. Tapper only interviewed the former president once during his term and reportedly had a “meltdown” when another anchor was given an off-the-record briefing with Biden before the 2024 State of the Union.
Thompson, Tapper’s co-author, claimed during the Couric podcast that protecting Hunter from legal consequences was likely one of the factors in Biden’s decision to run for a second term.
This supposed bitter feud between Hunter Biden and Jake Tapper shows how media relationships with political families can turn ugly when personal boundaries are crossed.
But the possibility is it’s all meant to shift the focus off the Biden Family scandals that have resurfaced in recent weeks.
