The Lead

CNN host Jake Tapper took a loud stand that he wouldn’t allow any 2020 election deniers on his programs. But apparently, 2024 election deniers are totally cool. On his show The Lead on Friday, he performed a puffball interview with Rosie O’Donnell, who claims Trump didn’t win the 2024 election. Worse yet, Tapper egged her on as she insisted Trump is dramatic cognitive decline.

Oliver Darcy's ideological enforcers at Status.com were upset that CNN's persistent "fact checker" of Donald Trump Daniel Dale had not been seen on air in three months. CNN denied that this was a Thing, and then the day after the complaint -- voila! -- there was Dale on Jake Tapper's show attacking Trump on claims that the Los Angeles vote counting was "rigged."

CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper leaned on his sanctimonious reputation late Wednesday afternoon as he devoted the first 14 minutes to huffing about CBS News firing longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley for his petulant reenactment of Pickett’s Charge, thinking he could eviscerate his bosses and intimidate them in his “house.” For the second of three segments, Tapper turned to former…

Alleged comedian Stephen Colbert once infamously claimed President Trump was Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s “cock holster.” CNN host Jake Tapper was acting in such a manner for Colbert during the Thursday edition of his show, The Lead. According to Tapper, who once claimed there was “no reason to doubt” information that came from Hamas, Trump used inferences and angry posts to get Colbert…

On Monday's The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper crusaded for Jimmy Kimmel again after he was condemned by Melania Trump, followed by President Trump again calling on ABC to dump Kimmel after he created a fake Correspondents Dinner routine on  Thursday night where he said to Melania: "So beautiful, Mrs. Trump. You have a glow like an expectant widow."

Near the end of Thursday’s edition of The Lead, host Jake Tapper boosted an election theft conspiracy pushed by The Washington Post, which erroneously claimed President Trump was going to issue an emergency declaration to steal the midterm elections. Tapper even brought on the senior White House reporter to wrote the story, Isaac Arnsdorf to help give the accusations weight. But Republican…

On Jake Tapper's CNN show on Tuesday, they discussed Stephen Colbert's stunt of putting an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico on YouTube because his lawyers banned him from putting Talarico on air. CNN and Jonah Goldberg touted this as a "gift" for the two men, a "perfect storm" where "everybody" opposed to Trump comes out a winner. 

On his show The Lead on Monday, CNN host Jake Tapper turned angrily on former Trump official Chad Mizelle when he suggested blaming Alex Pretti’s shooting in part on Tim Walz saying ICE is “Trump’s Gestapo” and Jacob Frey telling ICE to “get the F out” of Minneapolis. Tapper was so furious he accused Mizelle of hating free speech, and thinking Pretti deserved to be shot. 

2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS. As you’ll see below in our top-ten list of the most read stories, you’ll see NPR come up along with the major…

Now that "Islamophobia" is back as President Trump called radical Rep. Ilhan Omar and her friends "garbage," the networks ran to pamper her again. One reason Trump might have called Omar “garbage” is her connections to the fraudsters in the Somali community.

Will he write a book about getting this one wrong too? CNN host made a fool out himself again Thursday evening. He kicked off The Lead by falsely claiming that the suspect arrested for planning pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican National Committees national offices ahead of January 6, was a “white man,” when he was, in fact, black. He also refused to correct the record even as…

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the liberal media rushed to the defense of ABC chief White House correspondent and liberal tool Mary Bruce following President Trump’s extensive dressing down of her over questions about to him about the Epstein files and Trump family business dealings in Saudi Arabia and then to the Saudi crown prince about 9/11 and Jamal Khashoggi.

On Tuesday, CNN’s The Lead host Jake Tapper was all of us in having to deal with the middle-aged, theatre kid buffoonery of Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), who was brought on as a Democrat from the Oversight Committee to counter an earlier interview with Chairman James Comer (R-KY) about the Biden autopen report. Instead, she hijacked it to accuse Republicans of wanting tens of…

Shortly before 5pm on Thursday, it was reported that New York Attorney General Letitia James had been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia, on charges stemming from allegations of mortgage fraud. She was charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making a false statement to a lending institution.. Minutes later at 5 o'clock, The Lead with Jake Tapper…