Biography

March 12, 1969 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Jacob Paul Tapper

6′ 0¾″ (1.85 m)

Sardonic delivery and quips

Winner of the Edward R. Murrow award in 2005.

Wrote for the New Yorker and the New York Times magazine.

ABC News Senior White House correspondent since 2008.

Was once voted most politically biased anchor on CNN.

Has 2 children: son Jack was born in 2009.

[responding to Stephen Bannon] The President's top aide just told the New York Times that the press should "keep its mouth shut". No.

[to Donald Trump]Mr. President, you won the Presidency, you won it legitimately, now get to work and stop whining the number of votes you got.

[on President Trump's conspiracy theories]we've been here before: this is not a land with much "sense", or respect for facts, this is about a place with conspiracy theories untethered to facts and these theories are voiced by President Trump: Barack Obama faked his birth certificate because he was born in Africa: false, thousands of New Jersey Muslims were on TV celebrating 911: false, Ted Cruz's father had something to do with Lee Harvey Oswald: false, vaccines cause autism: false, there's something "fishy" about the deaths of Justice Scalia, or Vince Foster: all false, inaugural crowd sizes, three to five million of illegal votes, it goes on and on, none of it is true.

[when an FBI probe forced Michael Cohen to admit that his secret client was Sean Hannity] Go home, 2018, you're drunk.