Hunter Biden has revealed he once angrily confronted CNN’s Jake Tapper and told him to “go f–k” himself for hounding him over his brother Beau Biden’s death.
The disgraced former first son gave a rare interview to confirm his long-running feud with Tapper after the lefty anchor denied hounding him.
“It would be impossible to forget or misremember something that upsetting and out of line during one of the toughest moments of my life,” Hunter, 55, told Breaker on Wednesday.
“It happened. I was furious.”
The saga is said to have unfolded when Tapper repeatedly called Hunter as his brother was dying of brain cancer at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 2015, the outlet reported, citing multiple sources.
When Tapper subsequently followed up on a blocked number, which Hunter answered, the sources claimed Biden’s son allegedly bluntly said: “Go f–k yourself, Jake.”
Years later, the duo came face to face at the 2018 Super Bowl in Minneapolis, where sources witnessed a tense interaction between the pair — kicking off the rumors of their feud.
Several witnesses previously told Puck that they saw Hunter put his arm around Tapper’s shoulders before telling him that “I would knock you out” if they weren’t in a public setting.
The apparent threat was allegedly in response to the barrage of calls Tapper had made years earlier — something the CNN host strenuously denies.
“This is a patently false lie,” Tapper said in a statement. “At no point in my life have I ever called Hunter Biden — I’ve never even had his phone number — and I would never have contacted a person’s immediate family during such a challenging and personal time.”
He did, however, confirm the Super Bowl saga — but suggested Hunter had confronted him over negative headlines associated with the ex-second son’s drug use and divorce.
“Hunter did once confront me at a Super Bowl party, but it was over an unrelated issue — coverage he wrongly believed I had done regarding divorce allegations of drug use and using prostitutes, which I actually had never done,” Tapper told Breaker.
Tapper’s spokesperson added: “The idea that Jake could do something so heartless — and yet the Bidens would subsequently offer him multiple sit-down interviews as well as agree to him moderating the debate, all without anyone hearing about it until now — completely defies logic.”
The tit-for-tat comes a day after Tapper — who has just co-written a book with Axios’ Alex Thompson that details former President Joe Biden’s mental decline — ripped Hunter as “sleazy” and “demonstrably unethical.”
In an interview on Katie Couric’s “Next Question” podcast to promote the book, Tapper was asked about Hunter’s role in the Biden family.
“I think Hunter was driving the decision-making for the family in a way that people — he was almost like a chief of staff of the family,” the CNN host said.
“It’s bizarre because I think he is provably demonstrably unethical, sleazy, and prone to horrible decisions,” Tapper continued.
“Well, I mean, I just look at the record. I mean, after his brother died, he cheated on his wife with his brother’s widow and then got her addicted to crack. That’s just one thing I could say. I mean, I don’t have a lot of personal regard for him, and just based on having nothing to do with — I barely have ever met him. I’ve met him like once or twice.”