Jake Tapper Shreds Rick Scott’s ‘Word Salad’ Attack on Him
Jake Tapper on Friday fired back at Sen. Rick Scott’s recent “nonsensical” invocation of comments the CNN anchor made years ago, blasting the GOP lawmaker’s “word salad” as “very strange” and “incomprehensible.”
During a CNN interview on Thursday morning, Scott attempted to defend his long-debunked claim that Democrats and President Joe Biden actually “cut $280 billion out of Medicare.” Scott’s revival of this falsehood came after Biden warned that “some” Republicans were looking to sunset Social Security and Medicare, citing Scott’s proposal that does just that.
After CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins challenged Scott’s claim as misleading and deceptive (which it very much is), the Florida senator doubled down by referenced remarks Tapper made in 2017 during an interview with then-Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. At that time, Tapper noted that the Trump administration proposed an $880-billion cut to Medicaid. (The bill never passed.)