Jake Tapper’s brazen journalistic dishonesty

Jake Tapper’s recent behavior redefines journalistic dishonesty in a way that eclipses anything that came before.

This is the man who amplified every major hoax of the past decade, most notably kickstarting the Russia collusion narrative by singlehandedly legitimizing the… pic.twitter.com/k4V6U1i6UA

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 24, 2025

Jake Tapper’s recent behavior redefines journalistic dishonesty in a way that eclipses anything that came before.

This is the man who amplified every major hoax of the past decade, most notably kickstarting the Russia collusion narrative by singlehandedly legitimizing the fraudulent Steele dossier which even the fake news wouldn’t touch. What’s worse, he did it with a carefully orchestrated drip strategy. And when BuzzFeed went ahead and published the full document, he completely lost it (as I detail in my book Swiftboating America, excerpted below).

Now, with all the hoaxes thoroughly exposed and discredited, Tapper isn’t apologizing or quietly retreating into the bushes like Homer Simpson. No, he’s pushing a new book that absurdly casts him as a journalistic savant who somehow saw through the very lies he helped spread. The gall is staggering. The entire fake news world is defined by hypocrisy and deceit, but Tapper somehow managed to obliterate the competition and crown himself the living embodiment of everything we hate about the media.