Hunter Biden torched CNN anchor Jake Tapper over his bombshell book about the alleged mental decline of former President Joe Biden. Hunter Biden, the son of the former president, defended his father and criticized Tapper during an interview with Mediaite reporter Tommy Christopher’s Substack on Monday. Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson released “Original Sin” earlier this year, which reported that those surrounding the former president took part in a “cover-up” to mask alleged issues with his mental acuity during his last few years in office. Hunter Biden has been outspoken against Tapper and his book for months. He rehashed his grievances with Tapper’s reporting on Monday, saying in the interview that the longtime CNN anchor was “irrelevant.” “I just think that Jake is irrelevant. I really do, and I don’t mean that in any other way than I think that he has spent far too long doing a ‘What about it?’ journalism, both sides journalism, in a way that I think has been really detrimental. I know that he has some really, really, really personally, personal things to say about me. I don’t know Jake well enough to make a judgment about him as a human being, the way that he makes a judgment about me as a human being,” Hunter Biden said. “And he says I’m a scumbag... And you know what? You can read my book about all my scumbaggery. I wrote all about it. And addiction is a really, really, really ugly thing. Divorces are really, really, really ugly things,” he continued. “I don’t live my life to impress Jake Tapper, but I just think it’s, really, really poor journalism,” he added. Hunter Biden also suggested, without evidence, that Tapper used artificial intelligence to write his books, noting that Tapper just released another book titled “Race Against Terror.” “I think Jake’s got to cool it on the ChatGPT and maybe give it at least a four-month period of time before he gives us another book. But the fact of the matter is, is that when I say that he is irrelevant, I think that he is really relevant in a certain circle, and in an echo chamber, of which where he lives, in Washington, DC,” Hunter Biden said. Tapper took a lot of heat for the book about Biden, with Democrats labeling it as a hit piece against the former president while Republicans criticize him for not reporting on the alleged “cognitive decline” at the time it was happening. He has also fiercely defended his work despite expressing some regret he did not cover it in real time. During an interview with conservative pundit Piers Morgan earlier this year, Tapper claimed that the “cover-up” of Biden’s mental acuity may be “worse” than the Watergate scandal during former President Richard Nixon’s administration.