Lara Trump shares details of surprise phone call from Jake Tapper over their 2020 on-air spat over Biden

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Presidential daughter-in-law Lara Trump confirmed that she had a phone call with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.

It reportedly came ahead of the release of 'Original Sin' — the hot-off-the-press expose by Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson which digs into just how far former President Joe Biden’s top aides allegedly went to keep his cognitive decline under wraps.

While the book may be a bombshell expose, many conservatives aren’t impressed. Among them is Laura Ingraham, who brought Lara on her show 'The Ingraham Angle' Tuesday night, May 27, to rehash a certain heated CNN moment from five years ago, Mediaite reported.

“Now, I want to remind everyone how he treated you back five years ago when you brought up what you saw, which was Biden’s cognitive decline,” Ingraham said, before rolling an old clip from October 2020 of Lara sparring with Tapper live on-air.

"What we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline," Lara had said at the time.

Tapper quickly fired back. "I think that you are mocking his stutter," he told her. "I think you are mocking his stutter and I think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline."

Jake Tapper finally concedes about Joe Biden's cognitive decline

Now, Tapper is singing a different tune.

Ingraham played a new clip of Tapper on-air saying, "She was right and I was wrong. I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline. She did. Our reporting suggests that she was correct. So I feel humility. I have apologized to her."

Naturally, Ingraham had questions. “Lara, when did that apology come? And if you don’t mind sharing with us, what did he say?” she asked.

Lara dished, "Yeah, 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.’”

“And I guess to Jake’s credit, he did that,” she told Ingraham.

But Lara didn’t let him off the hook that easily.

"Now, Laura, I think the overarching thing here, though, is that the damage is done, right? We were so close to something so dangerous happening to this country. I mean, look at what actually happened. Look at the millions of illegal immigrants able to pour in. People are questioning now, you know, who was actually in charge of this country?" she noted.

Lara Trump says 'too little, too late' about Jake Tapper's call

While Lara said she appreciated the public acknowledgment, she wasn’t exactly thrilled. “It feels a little bit too late to me. I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and come out and say that I was right.”

Still, Ingraham wanted to clarify. “Did he actually call you, or was the on-air dramatic apology – was that it?” she asked.

Lara confirmed, “Well, he called me and said that he was going to do this.”

That prompted a little eye-roll from Ingraham. “Ok, so, but he didn’t actually apologize to you in a subsequent phone call. It was like so convoluted," she responded.

As far as Lara’s concerned, Tapper’s belated apology doesn’t erase his role in what she sees as a media-wide cover-up.

"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."

Looking back, Lara can’t help but wonder if the truth would’ve ever come out had Biden won a second term.

You can watch Lara Trump's complete conversation with Laura Ingraham here: