CNN anchor Jake Tapper published a lengthy diatribe on his network’s website accusing Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of telling a “wild and false story about me” during a recent podcast appearance.
Tapper responded to claims made by Kennedy during a June 5 podcast appearance with Jordan Peterson.
According to Tapper, Kennedy falsely claimed that Tapper told him in 2005 that an ABC News segment was spiked by management.
Tapper, who was a correspondent for ABC News at the time, interviewed Kennedy over an online article he wrote for Salon.com and Rolling Stone magazine that Tapper said included wild claims about vaccines and their alleged link to autism.
The Kennedy story, which alleged that a preservative found in most childhood vaccines caused neurological disorders, was eventually removed by both Rolling Stone and Salon.com.
Kennedy told Peterson earlier this month that he and Tapper worked together “for three weeks doing this incredible documentary” about the magazine article.
“No and no,” Tapper wrote in the CNN article on Thursday.
Tapper insisted that he told Kennedy in 2005 that ABC News was “holding the story for a day.”
Kennedy then told Peterson...
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