Lara hits Biden ‘decline’

Lara Trump sparred with CNN’s Jake Tapper over Joe Biden’s campaign performances on Sunday after the president’s daughter-in-law suggested the former vice president is in “cognitive decline.”

The tense exchange began when CNN’s “State of the Union” host asked Trump (above) about comments she’d made saying she feels “bad” for Biden when he comes on stage and can’t “get the words out.”

Trump, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign who is married to the president’s son Eric, said that at the time she made those comments she didn’t know the Democrat was a stutterer.

“First and foremost, I had no idea that Joe Biden ever suffered from a stutter,” she said. “I think what we see on stage with Joe Biden, Jake, is very clearly a cognitive decline. That’s what I’m referring to. It makes me uncomfortable.”

Tapper accused her of “mocking his stutter” and suggested she has “no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.”

“I would think that somebody in the family would be more sensitive to people who do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians from afar. Plenty of people have diagnosed your father from afar, and I’m sure it offends you,” he said.

Lara hit back that she was “not diagnosing him.”

“What I’m saying, Jake, is that Joe Biden is struggling when he’s on stage,” she said. “And it’s very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of the free world.”

At that point, Tapper said he was “sure” her comments came from a “place of concern.”