CNN anchorJake Tapper was ripped Thursday after he wrongly referred to accused DC pipe-bomber Brian Cole Jr. as a “white man.”
Tapper made the cringeworthy gaffe while discussing the arrest of Cole, who is black, during his opening segment on “The Lead.”
His “white man” comment came at 5:01 p.m., around the time CNN was the first outlet to publish a photo of Cole’s face that originated from the suspect’s mother’s Instagram account.
Viewers were stunned by Tapper’s misrepresentation of the alleged pipe bomber.
“You can’t make this stuff up,” conservative pundit Benny Johnson wrote on X.
Conservative influencer Nick Sorter accused CNN of pushing “anti-white rhetoric.”
