CNN anchorman Jake Tapper, in 2025, proclaimed on his show that he is NOT on the Left.
Asked to defend Trump’s “tariff chaos,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Tapper “Everyone, especially on your side, on the left, is freaking out.” Tapper quickly replied “I’m not on the left.” Where is he, then?
We know what Tapper is trying to do here – his colleague Brian Stelter has tried to do this, too – “I am not taking a side.” But in the first Trump term, CNN boss Jeff Zucker made them ALL take a side. They had to uncork grand speeches. “We call them homilies,” said Tapper in 2020. CNN is not a church.
Jake Tapper can question Democrats sternly, and he had a couple for Tim Walz on Sunday, citing the criticism that the “Democrats were gaslighting the country, saying that inflation was not a big deal….pretending there wasn’t a problem at the…
