Former Biden White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has delivered a scathing critique of the Democratic Party in an excerpt from her new memoir, explaining why she decided to become an independent after years as a party spokesperson.
In the excerpt, Jean-Pierre recounted the moment when then-President Joe Biden informed the White House team that he was dropping out of the presidential race, as reported by Newsweek. She described Biden as being “totally at peace with his decision,” but shared that she herself was “stunned,” with emotions running high.
“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 revealed that she never expected Biden to withdraw from the race. Despite this, she felt that he had been betrayed by his own party.
“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 described how she prepared for her first public appearance after Biden’s announcement, which was on *The View*, the liberal ABC talk show.
“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,” she wrote.
She continued, “‘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 unleashing a “firing squad” on Biden, noting that the former president was forced off the presidential ticket last July following weeks of pressure from his party after a dismal debate performance against Republican Donald Trump.
The former White House press secretary revealed she officially left the Democratic Party in June while announcing her book. Prior to her high-profile role in the White House, she worked on multiple Democratic presidential campaigns and was an MSNBC political analyst.
Jean-Pierre’s memoir offers a candid look inside the political turmoil that shaped her decision to part ways with the party she once dedicated her life to.
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