UPDATE: The next day, Friday December 5, Jake Tapper apologized for the flub during an update on the case. “Yesterday, minutes before we showed you the suspect’s photo, I should note, I mistakenly said that the suspect was white. Obviously, as the photo revealed, he’s black. Apologies for that mistake.”
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 he was noting they were showing images of the guy on screen.
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