CNN’s Jake Tapper Says the Media Must Confront Republicans’ Big Lie

Jake Tapper has drawn a line: no “Big Lie” proponents on-air. The CNN anchor and chief Washington correspondent won’t book Republican politicians touting the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former President Donald Trump. But when he’s not in front of the camera, Tapper enjoys blurring the lines between fact and fiction by crafting novels about real-life figures like John F. Kennedy and Frank Sinatra. His latest book, The Devil May Dance , is a sequel to his bestseller, The Hellfire Club , which has been adapted into a TV series by HBO Max. During a live event hosted by Mother Jones ’ Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in early June , Tapper discusses the biggest threats to our democracy—and how his experience covering those threats as a journalist informed his work as a historical fiction writer. This recording has been edited for length. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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