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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Stephen Miller Plays Happy Family After Wife Left with Musk
In the middle of a media storm this week, senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News late Saturday night for a softball interview with the president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. At the end of a long week that included Elon Musk stepping down from his senior role in the Trump White House and Miller's wife Katie leaving her role as spokesperson for the Department of Government Efficiency to continue working for Musk full-time, Miller appeared unfazed, sitting down with Lara Trump to discuss the president's policies and future plans. Miller spent much of the interview discussing the Trump administration's policies, including repeating the administration's line that non-citizens, specifically undocumented immigrants, are not covered by the constitutional right to habeas corpus despite previous Supreme Court rulings affirming that they are. Miller also accused the Democratic Party of 'rigging' the system because in a fair system, he said, they are 'unable to compete.' He also waxed lyrical about Trump's legacy with the MAGA movement, telling Lara that the president has ensured his legacy by building a movement that has elevated an entire generation of leaders who will continue implementing his agenda even after he has left office. The interview then turned to more personal matters, with Miller volunteering an incredibly neutral anecdote about how he met his wife: 'When I first met her [during the first Trump administration], she was the communications director at the Department of Homeland Security, so it's on-brand, the relationship, because we were on conference calls every day on border security.' Miller also talked about his children—he and his wife have a daughter and two sons—who apparently love the president. He told Lara that his daughter first met the president when she was a newborn, and is always asking when she can see him again, adding, 'She's desperate for any chance to get face time with the president.' Miller's daughter is 4. Miller also told Trump that the president is 'great with kids,' describing him as a 'kid magnet' and a 'child whisperer' who has worked to ensure the West Wing of the White House is child-friendly, with staffers allowed to bring their children not just to work whenever they want, but even to the Oval Office. While it is unclear when the interview was recorded, the segment goes to great lengths to frame Miller as a family man after days of commentary about the Millers finding themselves on opposite sides of the Trump/Musk divide. Democrats were quick to taunt Miller about the news of his wife's departure from the Trump administration, with the official Democrats X account jokingly implying Miller was a cuckold in one post. Katie Miller worked as a deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019 before moving to Vice President Mike Pence's office. Following Trump's second inauguration, she was appointed as an adviser and spokesperson for DOGE under the auspices of Musk, and also served as a member of the president's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Stephen Miller Seems Unfazed by Wife Leaving With Musk
In the middle of a media storm this week, senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News late Saturday night for a softball interview with the president's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. At the end of a long week that included Elon Musk stepping down from his senior role in the Trump White House and Miller's wife Katie leaving her role as spokesperson for the Department of Government Efficiency to continue working for Musk full-time, Miller appeared unfazed, sitting down with Lara Trump to discuss the president's policies and future plans. Miller spent much of the interview discussing the Trump administration's policies, including repeating the administration's line that non-citizens, specifically undocumented immigrants, are not covered by the constitutional right to habeas corpus despite previous Supreme Court rulings affirming that they are. Miller also accused the Democratic Party of 'rigging' the system because in a fair system, he said, they are 'unable to compete.' He also waxed lyrical about Trump's legacy with the MAGA movement, telling Lara that the president has ensured his legacy by building a movement that has elevated an entire generation of leaders who will continue implementing his agenda even after he has left office. The interview then turned to more personal matters, with Miller volunteering an incredibly neutral anecdote about how he met his wife: 'When I first met her [during the first Trump administration], she was the communications director at the Department of Homeland Security, so it's on-brand, the relationship, because we were on conference calls every day on border security.' Miller also talked about his children—he and his wife have a daughter and two sons—who apparently love the president. He told Lara that his daughter first met the president when she was a newborn, and is always asking when she can see him again, adding, 'She's desperate for any chance to get face time with the president.' Miller's daughter is 4. Miller also told Trump that the president is 'great with kids,' describing him as a 'kid magnet' and a 'child whisperer' who has worked to ensure the West Wing of the White House is child-friendly, with staffers allowed to bring their children not just to work whenever they want, but even to the Oval Office. While it is unclear when the interview was recorded, the segment goes to great lengths to frame Miller as a family man after days of commentary about the Millers finding themselves on opposite sides of the Trump/Musk divide. Democrats were quick to taunt Miller about the news of his wife's departure from the Trump administration, with the official Democrats X account jokingly implying Miller was a cuckold in one post. Katie Miller worked as a deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security from 2017 to 2019 before moving to Vice President Mike Pence's office. Following Trump's second inauguration, she was appointed as an adviser and spokesperson for DOGE under the auspices of Musk, and also served as a member of the president's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lara Trump Reveals What Jake Tapper Said to Her in Apology Call
Lara Trump said she got a phone call from Jake Tapper earlier this year vowing to 'go on TV' and admit fault to her after the release of his book. On Tuesday's episode of The Ingraham Angle, Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked Trump about Tapper's admission last week that he had apologized to her for shooting down her claim during a 2020 interview that Joe Biden was in 'cognitive decline.' Lara Trump, Donald Trump's daughter-in-law, told Ingraham she did indeed receive a call from the CNN anchor. 'Jake Tapper called me about two months ago, actually, and he said, 'I have this book coming out, and I know everybody's saying that I should apologize to you. I plan whenever the book comes out, to go on TV, and I will say you were right and I was wrong,'' she said. 'And I guess, to Jake's credit, he did that,' she added. Tapper and Axios correspondent Alex Thompson co-authored Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, which has been flying off the shelves since its release last week. It goes into the lengths that Biden aides reportedly went to in order to preserve the then-president's public image as his health deteriorated behind the scenes. The book has also stirred substantial controversy, attracting disapproval from both sides of the aisle. Its critics on the left accuse it of distracting from a much more dangerous threat—Donald Trump's presidency—while some conservatives have accused Tapper of participating in the so-called 'cover-up' by declining to report on Biden's declining health until after the election. In October 2020, Tapper and Lara Trump clashed during a State of the Union interview over her previous suggestions that Biden had struggled to speak. Tapper accused her of mocking Biden's stutter. Defending herself, Lara Trump said Biden's speech showed him in 'cognitive decline.' Tapper told her she had 'no standing to judge somebody's cognitive decline." On The Megyn Kelly Show last week, Tapper said he'd called Lara Trump 'months ago and said, 'You were right.'' 'She saw something that I did not see at the time, 100 percent,' the CNN host told Kelly. 'I own that.' He said in an interview with Piers Morgan on Monday he felt 'tremendous humility' over his comments to Lara Trump. Biden revealed last week he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this month and will undergo treatment. Lara Trump's revelation on Tuesday drew further criticism of Tapper. 'We live in a world where mainstream journalists are apologizing to members of the Trump family. Kill. Me. Now,' wrote former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan. Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of the liberal MeidasTouch network, accused Tapper of issuing a 'contrived fake apology to Lara Trump to pander to MAGA hoping they might buy some books.' A CNN representative did not immediately return an email seeking comment from Tapper.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
Lara Trump reveals Jake Tapper's groveling apology over Biden's mental decline... then issues devastating comeback
CNN star Jake Tapper called Lara Trump to apologize for a condescending on-air dispute in 2020 where he dismissed her concerns about Joe Biden 's mental acuity. President Trump's daughter-in-law revealed the phone call on Fox Tuesday but said his apology was 'a little too late' - conveniently taking place just weeks before the publication of his tell-all book about Biden's cognitive decline in the White House. Tapper has faced fierce backlash on his reporting in the book, with critics noting he participated in the 'cover-up' he is now intently criticizing. One of the most prominent examples of this was back in October 2020, when Lara pointed to a speech of Biden's and said: 'What we see on stage is a very clear cognitive decline.' Tapper immediately interjected, savaging her with a haughty response that she had 'absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline' and accusing her of instead 'mocking his stutter.' While Tapper has publicly apologized for his response and admitted a sense of 'humility' over being proven wrong, Lara has now revealed he reached out to her privately two months ago. 'Jake Tapper called me about two months ago and he said "I have this book coming out,"' she told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. Tapper told her 'I know everybody is saying I should apologize to you. I plan, when the book comes out, to go on TV and say you were right and I was wrong.' While Trump appreciated the acknowledgement and that Tapper has since stuck to his word by apologizing publicly, she noted that 'it feels a little bit too late to me.' 'Jake Tapper can't discount his role in that, no matter how much he wants to come out now,' she said. 'They have lost the American people's trust... It is the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now. People like authenticity.' Lara went on to say that the 'over-arching thing is that the damage is done', and raised questions about whether Biden's cognitive decline ever would have been publicly addressed if he had secured another full term. Tapper first publicly apologized to Lara on the Megyn Kelly show after she replayed a damning snippet of their conversation live on air. 'Do you want to apologize to Lara Trump?' Kelly asked. 'There is a way of pressing a man like that on the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and to the audience and you didn't do it.' 'That's correct. I didn't,' Tapper confessed. 'And like I said, I feel humility about my coverage.' Lara first addressed how Tapper's new book had impacted her with a subtle dig at him on X on February. At the time, she re-shared a June 2024 post criticizing Tapper's treatment of her. 'Seems like a good time to remind everyone that in 2020 Jake Tapper, first, accused me of making fun of people with a stutter (an atrocious accusation) and then attempted to shut me down and ended our interview when I tried to warn people of Joe Biden's very obvious cognitive issues,' she wrote in the 2024 post, just one month before Biden departed from the race. He doubled down his apology on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Monday. 'Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline," Tapper said. In that same interview, he said the cover-up of Biden's cognitive decline may have been 'worse than Watergate' - referring to the Richard Nixon saga long considered one of the greatest scandals in political history. 'This is an entirely separate scandal. Maybe even worse … maybe even worse,' Tapper ultimately admitted. 'It is without question – and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he was not drinking.' During the 1972 scandal, the Nixon administration attempted to cover up a burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters. Nixon was forced to resign and 'Watergate' is now synonymous with political corruption, becoming somewhat of a benchmark through which subsequent administrations are judged. Lara said it was 'atrocious' for Tapper to accuse her of mocking Biden's stutter when she was in fact commenting on his visible cognitive decline While Tapper denies actively participating in a cover-up, he has accepted that he, along with the majority of left-leaning mainstream media - missed the signs for far too long. 'There should be a lot of soul-searching not just among me but among the legacy media to begin with - all of us - for how this was covered or not covered sufficiently,' he said. 'I wish I could do differently.' 'Conservative media absolutely has every right to say, "We were hip to this and the legacy media was not,"' he added. The turning point for him was the disastrous debate between Biden and Trump in June 2024, which he and fellow CNN star Dana Bash moderated. The duo had iPads which they used to communicate with their production team throughout the debate. Early on, Tapper sent a message to his crew backstage. He didn't know which staff were working, so he 'tried to keep it clean.' 'I wrote 'holy smokes,'' he told Kelly. 'I wanted to write 'holy f**k.'' Around the same time, Bash slid him a piece of paper, with her own message on it. It read: 'He just lost the election.' In addition to questions about Biden's cognitive ability, his recent diagnosis with late-stage prostate cancer has fueled conspiracy theories about whether he was aware of - and hid - his sickness while president. Biden's team have maintained he was not tested for prostate cance r while he was president, and that the diagnosis is recent. That reassurance has not stopped MAGA loyalists from demanding his long-term physician Kevin O'Connor be subpoenaed to answer questions about Biden's health. O'Connor repeatedly assured the American public during Biden's term that he was healthy and could have served another four years. Simultaneously, several of Biden's closest aides are facing pressure to reveal how much control they had over his autopen after Trump raised questions about who was really in charge during the Biden administration. According to the book, which is based on hundreds of interviews, 'access' to Biden diminished significantly during his White House term, as his staff allegedly walled him off, even from cabinet members. One cabinet secretary told the authors that he didn't brief the president directly in 2024 but only spoke to the president's aides. Even still, insiders maintained they were not aware of how dire the situation had become until it was too late, despite Biden's repeated gaffes and tumbles on the public stage. One of the most shocking incidents took place in September 2022 incident Biden called out for Republican Congresswoman Jackie Walorski at a White House event. 'Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie,' he said scanning the audience. 'She was going to be here.' Walorski had been killed in a car crash in August and Biden and the First Lady had issued a statement extended condolences to her family at the time. Another standout moment for Tapper was when Biden did not recognize actor George Clooney at a 2024 fundraising event, along with the revelation that White House aides were considering placing the president in a wheelchair if he were reelected.
Fox News
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Lara Trump reveals story behind CNN anchor Jake Tapper's 'a little bit too late' apology
Since releasing the damning book on the Biden presidency "Original Sin" earlier in May, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has faced scrutiny for his past coverage of former President Joe Biden's alleged decline in office. Although Tapper has admitted to insufficiently reporting on Biden's health concerns, the CNN anchor went on to apologize to Fox News host Lara Trump, whom he previously rebuked for raising concerns in 2020. While Trump does "appreciate" the apology, she said "it feels a little bit too late." "Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and has come out and said that I was right," Trump said Tuesday on "The Ingraham Angle." Trump said Tapper called her about two months ahead of the release of "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." During the call, he told Trump he would apologize on TV for his exchange with Trump in October 2020 on CNN. During an October 2020 episode of "State of the Union," Trump raised concerns about then-candidate Biden's mental acuity, but Tapper quickly rebuked her for her comments. "I think you were mocking his stutter," Tapper said, in part, at the time. "And I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody's cognitive decline." Five years later, Tapper admitted Trump was "right," reiterating the admission during an appearance on "Piers Morgan Uncensored" this week. "Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she [Lara Trump] was right, and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline," Tapper said during Monday's show, claiming that the Biden cover-up was "worse" than the Watergate scandal. While Tapper has been vocal about his prior reporting, Trump argued he cannot "discount his role" in the unfolding Biden presidency scandal. "No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, 'You know what, we're going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.' It's too late," Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. "You can't do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you're going to get any different result. It's the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now," she continued.
