The Knives Are Out for KJP

This is gonna be fun to watch. 

Ed wrote a great piece this morning about the “reviews” of Karine Jean-Pierre’s book, which is currently vaporware. 

It’s not the book that is the target of all this bile pouring forth, but Karine Jean-Pierre herself. After years of pent-up anger, the opportunity to strike out at her has attracted all comers. 

Karine Jean-Pierre went from exemplifying “black excellence” to being a “kinda dumb” disaster in less than six months pic.twitter.com/xJ74SvbUw7

— Andrew Stiles (@AndrewStilesUSA) June 5, 2025

Ed’s piece focused on the “external” reviews–Scott Jennings and Stephen A. Smith taking KJP apart. And they were hilarious. After all the “now it can be told” books basically ignored KJP’s role in Biden Brain Boondoggle, the actual appearance of KJP has reminded people of why they hated her so much. 

Other than that, she was great! 😂

KJP “was one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I’ve ever worked with…She didn’t know how to manage a team, didn’t know how to shape or deliver a message, and often created more problems than she solved.” https://t.co/nbQ27mMYaN

— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) June 5, 2025

Apparently, nobody hates Karine as much as her former colleagues, who apparently radiate it with the heat of a thousand suns. When Alex Thompson–whose book barely mentions her–asked her former colleagues yesterday about what they thought about KJP’s declaring herself an Independent (and independent thinker), they didn’t hold back. 

What they’re saying: One former White House official who worked closely with Jean-Pierre told Axios that she “was one of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I’ve ever worked with. … She had meltdowns after any interview that asked about a topic not sent over by producers.”

• “She didn’t know how to manage a team, didn’t know how to shape or deliver a message, and often created more problems than she solved,” the official said.
• A former Biden communications official threw more wood on the fire: “The hubris of thinking you can position yourself as an outsider when you not only have enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power — which … bestows the name recognition needed to sell books off your name — but have actively wielded it from the biggest pulpit there is, is as breathtaking as it is desperate … It’s difficult to see how this is anything but a bizarre cash grab.”
• Another former White House official familiar with the dynamics told Axios: “The amount of time that was spent coddling [Jean-Pierre] and appeasing her was astronomical compared to our attention on actual matters of substance.”

A former senior spokesperson in Biden’s administration added: “It’s hard to believe someone could look at the past year and genuinely think, ‘The party left Joe Biden — that’s why I’m leaving the Democratic Party.’ ‘”

• A former White House communications official added: “Today Karine lost the only constituency that ever supported her — party line Democrats.”

KJP spent years in the Obama/Biden orbit, and millions of people have wondered why. As I said yesterday, calling her a midwit is far too kind a characterization. She, by all appearances, seems downright stupid, or at least of below-average competence. In 2024, Anita Dunn, who for all her flaws is not a midwit, desperately tried to bounce her from the White House and replace her with the exceptionally good liar John Kirby, but failed to do so because Jean-Pierre was as immovable as the Rock of Gibraltar. 

“The administration that I worked for was staffed with kinda dumb people”

What kind of flex is that.

— Nick Timiraos (@NickTimiraos) June 5, 2025

Even a 7-figure a year bribe–becoming the President of Emily’s List–was not a juicy enough incentive to lure Jean-Pierre away from her prestigious position as spokes-black-immigrant-lesbian for the President of the United States. 

The two least credible sources of information in this world are the Gaza Health Ministry and Karine Jean-Pierre. pic.twitter.com/DuBXs65Aye

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) June 5, 2025

Jean-Pierre is the poster queer for DEI. President Trump’s administration is chock full of homosexual aids, but nobody says a thing about their sexual preferences because…who cares? They are smart, competent people who are in their positions because they earned it. 

One of the many compilations of Karine Jean-Pierre’s outrageous lies that I made during her time as Press Secretary.

Now she’s getting in on the grift and is releasing a book about the Biden Admin. This gets more ridiculous every day.pic.twitter.com/ZPAZTdkGYV

— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 4, 2025

Jean-Pierre–whom apparently everybody hated and for whom they felt contempt–was untouchable because she wasn’t primarily a Biden aide, but a symbol. 

Just as Democrats believe in the magical power of “messaging,” they believe that symbolism trumps everything else. John Kirby was very good at his job–lying for the president–while KJP couldn’t say a word without consulting a 3-ring binder. When I was in Washington, I spoke with a White House Correspondent and brought up Jean-Pierre, and he went ballistic. The disgust was palpable.

YIKES 🤣 Karine Jean-Pierre tried to get a job on The View and she never received a call back.

The queen of DEI hires wasn’t even wanted by fellow DEI hires.
pic.twitter.com/a9yFGyakb4

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 5, 2025

Washington is akin to a High School campus in many respects–a self-referential world where everybody jockeys for prestige. Everybody wants to sit at the cool kids’ table. 

🚨 PETER DOOCY on Karine Jean Pierre’s new book: “You know, it’s like I had a dream, and I opened up the first page of her book about the ‘broken White House’ and the first sentence says, ‘Peter Doocy told me, and I didn’t listen to him’.”

“The thing about this book is that she,… pic.twitter.com/zm4yxQymp1

— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) June 5, 2025

KJP will never again be invited. If the Bidens have lost their power and prestige in Washington–and, oh boy, they have!–KJP has, if anything, fallen farther and faster because she never was in a position to spread the money and favors around. She was promoted far above her abilities, was a “mean girl” when she had proximity to the Bidens and Obamas. 

Now, everybody wants to kick her when she is down. And she deserves it. 

This should be fun to watch.