Biden world is unloading on former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after she announced that she was leaving the Democratic Party and writing a book about her decision, according to Politico.
Jean-Pierre’s publisher announced her new book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” for publication in October 2025, adding that the former press secretary had decided to change her party affiliation to Independent. The book also plans to detail a “broken” Biden White House and how the former president faced “betrayal” by the Democratic Party. Former White House colleagues of Jean-Pierre’s reacted to the news, telling Politico that it is a “grift” as group chats lit up and frustration boiled over.
“She made a joke about being an independent last year and now it’s a book. All ideas are monetary — even the dumb ones,” one of the former staffers told Politico. The joke that Jean-Pierre made about switching parties came off as an “off-key comment” for someone who was serving as a “major messenger for the Democratic Party,” the outlet reported.
lol https://t.co/KNuM5am39V
— Jeremy Edwards (@jeremymarrell) June 4, 2025
A wildly craven and cowardly move. https://t.co/FWWzfGdipN
— Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) June 4, 2025
Before the Biden administration had concluded, Jean-Pierre began working with a New York-based publicist whom she was copying on official emails, until some White House staff intervened, Politico reported.
Jean-Pierre had been hoping to get a job as a co-host on The View, following her time in the White House, but the job never came to fruition, two former officials told Politico. The former officials added that they think the snub led to Jean-Pierre writing her book.
“Everyone thinks this is a grift,” one former official said of Jean-Pierre’s book project.
“A lot of group chats were revived today,” Symone D. Sanders Townsend, a co-host on MSNBC, tweeted.
A lot of group chats were revived today 😅
— Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) June 4, 2025
“Lol,” TJ Ducklo, a former Biden White House deputy press secretary, responded.
lol
— TJ Ducklo (@TDucklo) June 4, 2025
Jean-Pierre explained her decision to leave the Democratic Party and write her book in a video, saying that in “an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy,” she has decided to follow her own “compass.”
Under the Biden administration, Jean-Pierre repeatedly defended the former president’s fitness, insisted that he wasn’t going to pardon his son (he later did) and decried videos of the 82-year-old looking lost and wandering off as “cheap fakes.” (RELATED: Here Are Times Biden, KJP Promised President Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Before Breaking His Word)
“SHE was the public face telling us all that this White House was on track and that Biden was amazing. And now she doesn’t even want to be a Democrat????” one former Biden White House official told Politico in a statement.
“She’s making herself the middle ground here when Republicans hate her. She’s not in any position to be a connector of our two party system and assuming she could be is just ego,” the official continued.
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