{"id":9024,"date":"2025-10-20T04:16:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9024\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:16:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:16:15","slug":"karine-jean-pierre-writes-she-couldnt-be-a-democrat-anymore-after-partys-horrible-treatment-of-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/9024\/","title":{"rendered":"Karine Jean-Pierre writes she couldn’t be a Democrat anymore after party’s ‘horrible’ treatment of Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> unleashed on the Democratic Party in an excerpt from her new memoir, explaining why she decided to become an independent after years as a party flack.<\/p>\n

In the excerpt, Jean-Pierre detailed the phone call in which then-President Joe Biden told the White House team that he was dropping out of the race, Newsweek reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cBiden 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\u2019d been treated poorly by members of his own party. It was horrible,\u201d Jean-Pierre wrote.<\/p>\n

In her new book, \u201cIndependent,\u201d Jean-Pierre revealed that she never thought Biden would drop out. Jean-Pierre repeatedly touted Biden\u2019s physical and mental viability over the years from her position behind the podium, but his cognitive decline wound up dearly costing his party.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Jean-Pierre thought Biden had been betrayed.<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listens to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell who is attending the press briefing virtually in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on August, 14, 2023 in Washington, DC. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In the book, Jean-Pierre revealed that she never thought Biden would drop out. Amazon<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Democratic Party had defined my life, my career,\u201d Jean-Pierre wrote. \u201cEverything I\u2019d done to make people\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former press secretary<\/a> also wrote about how she planned to make her first appearance after Biden\u2019s announcement on \u201cThe View,\u201d the liberal ABC talk show.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow 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,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden, accompanied by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, jokes about taking so many questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on October 04, 2024 in Washington, DC. Getty Images<\/p>\n

Pierre wrote, \u201c\u2018You know what? I\u2019m going to become an independent. I don\u2019t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jean-Pierre accused Democrats of unleashing a \u201cfiring squad\u201d on the former president, who was forced off the presidential ticket last July after weeks of pressure from his party following his dismal debate against Republican Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Jean-Pierre revealed that she was leaving the Democratic Party in June while announcing her book. Before her high-profile White House role, she worked on multiple Democratic presidential campaigns and was an MSNBC political analyst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre unleashed on the Democratic Party in an excerpt from her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2132,874,7735,1208,9,11,10,87,5561],"class_list":{"0":"post-9024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-democrats","9":"tag-joe-biden","10":"tag-karine-jean-pierre","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}