In her new memoir, former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasts the Democratic Party and reveals she became an independent after hearing Biden announce his decision to drop out of the race.
“Biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision, but I was stunned, my feelings a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and heartbroken that this man had given more than 50 years of his life to serving the American people, and in the end he’d been treated poorly by members of his own party. It was horrible,” Jean-Pierre wrote.
In her new book “Independent,” Jean-Pierre admits she never expected Biden to drop out. Though she long defended his mental and physical fitness from the podium, his decline ultimately hurt the party—and Jean-Pierre says she believes he was betrayed.
“The Democratic Party had defined my life, my career,” Jean-Pierre wrote. “Everything I’d done to make people’s lives better had been connected to it. The party was the vehicle that allowed me not just to have a front seat to history, working first on [Barack] Obama’s presidential campaign then in his administration, but also to make some history of my own as the first Black woman and openly queer person to ever be a White House press secretary. Never had I considered leaving the party until now.”
Jean-Pierre also wrote about how she planned to make her first appearance after Biden’s dropout announcement on ABC’s The View: “Now the cloud of unease hovering over me solidified into an idea about how I could possibly do something different. How I could channel my disappointment into some kind of concrete action that would allow me to fight for what I believed in without giving blind loyalty to a party I felt no longer deserved it.”
Pierre then wrote, “‘You know what? I’m going to become an independent. I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.'”
Jean-Pierre accused Democrats of forming a “firing squad” against Biden, forcing him off the ticket last July after his poor debate with President Trump. She announced her departure from the party in June while promoting her book, having previously worked on several Democratic campaigns and as an MSNBC analyst.
‘IT WAS HORRIBLE’: Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasts the Democratic Party in her new memoir, saying she thought Biden had been betrayed in the 2024 race despite giving “50 years of his life to serving the American people.” pic.twitter.com/jlzkbGcEbU
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