First daughter-in-law Lara Trump opened up Tuesday night about CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s private apology for berating her on air for questioning Joe Biden’s mental acuity during the 2020 presidential campaign.”

Jake Tapper called me about two months ago, actually,” Lara, the wife of Eric Trump, recounted on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” 

“And he said, ‘I have this book coming out.  And I know everybody is saying that I should apologize to you. I plan, whenever the book comes out, to go on TV and I will say you were right and I was wrong.’ And I guess to Jake’s credit, he did that.”

Tapper is the co-author, with Axios reporter Alex Thompson, of “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again,” which hit bookshelves May 20 and detailed Biden’s cognitive decline as well as the efforts by his orbit to hide that from the public. 

Ahead of the 2020 election, Tapper confronted Lara Trump on camera over comments the 45th president made about Biden, which the CNN anchor claimed were mocking the Democratic nominee’s stutter.”How do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when they see you make a comment like that?” Tapper scolded Lara Trump at the time.

Lara Trump denied knowing that Biden suffered from a stutter and countered that she believed he was suffering from cognitive failings — something Tapper adamantly rejected before chiding that she has “absolutely no standing to diagnose somebody’s cognitive decline.”

“Knowing what we know now, and looking back on that interview, which I feel tremendous humility about, she was right, and I was wrong,” Tapper told Piers Morgan Monday night. “I did not see, in the moments he was having, I did not see that as cognitive decline.”

The host of the eponymous “The Lead with Jake Tapper” and co-host of CNN’s Sunday public affairs show “State of the Union” added that the secrecy around Biden “is a scandal … and maybe even worse than Watergate in some ways, because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn’t drinking.”

“Jake Tapper saying that this is like a Watergate-level type of situation, now that he played a role in it, it feels a little bit too late to me,” Lara Trump responded Tuesday. “I do appreciate that he did keep his word, though, and has come out and said that I was right.”

Tapper has faulted top Democrats and former Biden aides for misleading, and in some cases, outright lying to the public about Biden’s cognitive state. He’s also claimed that many of the 200-odd sources he and Thompson interviewed for the book became much more open about Biden after the 2024 election.

“No matter how much he wants to come out now and say, ‘You know what, we’re going to start calling the shots like we see them actually now.’ It’s too late,” Lara Trump argued.

“You can’t do this time and time again to people and continue to lie to people in the way they did and think that you’re going to get any different result. It’s the reason Donald Trump is in the White House right now.”