According to a court filing exclusively obtained by NewsBusters, CNN’s Jake Tapper refused to answer basic questions about his show’s finances, including his salary, during a sworn deposition on Wednesday. The legal team for Plaintiff and Navy veteran Zachary Young was now requesting Florida’s 14 Circuit Court to step in and force him to answer the questions.
Tapper was compelled into being deposed by a previous court order against CNN back in August as part of the $1 billion defamation suit they’re facing. During a hearing on August 13, Judge William Scott Henry said he had a “hard time believing” Tapper’s declaration to the court that he didn’t know anything about the finances of his show, The Lead.
In the hearing, CNN counsel Allison Lovelady quoted Tapper as saying “I have no knowledge about CNN’s net worth. I don’t have any knowledge…
