On Wednesday, Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre – our reliable source of seemingly endless content – announced she not only would have a tell-all book coming out in October about her time in the White House (entitled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines), but she has left the Democrat Party.
Unfortunately for Democrats (which was pointed out on The Megyn Kelly Show), the left canno t undo the mistake of letting someone in who showed an astounding inability to grasp basic English and think on her feet.
She made the announcement in an Instagram post that, like her tenure in the White House, was a whole lot of nothing.
We transcribed it below, so try and find any genuine sort of being behind declarations about having people ask her as some sort of expert on “how do we get out of this”…which in and of itself is unclear. Also, don’t miss the repetitive references to boxes (click “expand”):
Hi, I’m Karine Jean-Pierre and I am the author of a new book that’s coming out this fall called Independent. It’s coming out on October 21, so please, please do grab it. And the reason I wrote this book, coming out of the White House, you know, serving as White House press secretary was an honor and a privilege. But since I have left, the people that come up to me, strangers that come up to me just across the country as I’m traveling, and sometimes right in my neighborhood, at a grocery store, supermarket, airport, my daughter’s school, the number one question they ask me is, Karine, how do we get out of this? How do we protect our democracy? How do we protect vulnerable communities among us? What do we do next? Because we don’t have answers here. That’s what they ask me. And this is my answer. And what I mean by that is, in an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we’re seeing currently right now, what I have decided to do, and I really have thought long and hard about this, is to follow my own compass and that’s what I’ve done. And that’s what this book does. And here’s the truth. And here’s how I will lay it out to you. I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes and not be so partisan. And the way that I see moving forward in this space that we’re in right now, is if you are willing to stand side-by-side with me, regardless of your political — how you identify politically, and as long as you respect the community that I belong to, and vulnerable communities that I respect, I will be there with you. I will be. I will move forward with you. And that is, I think, so important. So, this book, Independent, it’s — it’s about looking outside of boxes, not just always being in a partisan stance. And how do we move forward together in a compassionate way — in a way that really, truly cares about people. October 21!
Publisher Legacy Lit tried to make lemonade out of the oranges Jean-Pierre provided them.
After boilerplate talk from political junkies claiming to be tired of the political system (“in a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system”), it said Jean-Pierre would detail “why Americans must…embrace life as Independents” following a decision of her own that she “didn’t come to…lightly.”
“She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision. In an urgent, timely analysis, Independent urges all Americans to vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines,” it added, promising she’d provide “clear arguments,” “provocative evidence,” and “passionate insight.”
“As a history maker, veteran public servant, political analyst and independent thinker, she urges Americans to think outside of the blue-and-red box as we consider what’s next to save our democracy,” it later concluded.
Sure, we at NewsBusters will be reading it cover-to-cover with a stack of Post-It Notes, but it’s doubtful America will if she doesn’t deliver the goods on Joe Biden being a basket case.
A Politico piece on the book was nothing short of spicy. Liberal hack Eli Stokols had the story, including plenty of descriptions about Jean-Pierre we all saw (and chronicled) with our own eyes, but since Biden’s out of office, the liberal media are free to admit she was a basket case (click “expand”):
Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party — timed with the rollout of a new book — has detonated long-simmering grievances among her former White House colleagues about Jean-Pierre’s pursuit of celebrity and personal media exposure while serving as then-President Joe Biden’s press secretary.
The attention-grabbing ploy lit up Democratic and Biden alumni texting groups and reignited frustrations that burned for years about Jean-Pierre, according to seven former Biden administration officials granted anonymity to describe private conversations.
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“Everyone thinks this is a grift,” the first former official said of Jean-Pierre’s book project.
As Biden’s press secretary, Jean-Pierre’s halting, ineffectual briefings exasperated reporters and routinely offered material for the Republican Party’s main account on X. She frustrated colleagues throughout the West Wing for focusing on raising her own profile while leaving the hands-on management of media relations and the White House press shop to other aides.
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A New York-based publicist, Gilda Squire, worked informally with Jean-Pierre while she was in the White House and was, on multiple occasions, copied on official emails before staffers raised the issue, another former official said. Squire previously served as publicity director for HarperCollins Publishers and also did PR for Penguin Putnam Publishing, according to her LinkedIn. And Jean-Pierre was the subject of several lengthy profiles in lifestyle publications, including Vogue and Women’s Health and traveled to New York to appear on The View.
According to two of the former officials, Jean-Pierre had been hoping for a post-White House job as a co-host on the show, following the template of her predecessor, Jen Psaki, who departed the job after just more than a year for an anchor job at MSNBC.
But no such opportunity materialized for Jean-Pierre, a factor three of her former colleagues surmised that likely led to the book.
Axios reporter and Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson had a devastating X thread revealing he had reached out multiple times to the PR firm in question and received vehement denials they weren’t helping Jean-Pierre on the side while she struggled at the White House podium:
Our friend, CNN senior political commentator, and 2025 MRC Bulldog Award winner Scott Jennings couldn’t have said it any better himself on CNN’s The Arena:
But as a p.s., check out what liberal CNN political commentator Xochitl Hinojosa had to say about Jean-Pierre right after Jennings. Bear in mind Hinojosa served with Jean-Pierre in the Biden administration as the latter’s equivalent at the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland:
Ooof. Between that and a cryptic tweet from around the same time by another former Jean-Pierre colleague (and current MSNBC host) Symone Sanders Townsend that “a lot of group chats were revived today,” it’s safe to say Jean-Pierre has plenty on her own side who are now willing to at least imply she wasn’t up for the job.
