Jake Tapper

Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist. He is the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN. He hosts the weekday television news show The Lead with Jake Tapper and the Sunday morning affairs program State of the Union.

Tapper worked on the coverage of the inauguration of President Obama that earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story. Tapper was part of a team that was awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Video: Breaking News for "Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1".

His book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor debuted at number 10 in November 2012 on The New York Times Bestseller list for hardback non-fiction. Tapper and Alex Thompson wrote another book which was on sale since May 2025. The name of this book is "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.

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