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Reporters who covered the Biden White House are successful disbelief that erstwhile property caput Karine Jean-Pierre ditched the Democratic Party to pen a caller publication successful a "desperate" effort to revive her career.
The longtime spokesperson for erstwhile President Joe Biden announced connected Wednesday that she switched her affiliation to independent. Jean-Pierre besides revealed an upcoming book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," that rapidly raised eyebrows among the journalists who dealt with her successful the briefing room.
One White House newsman sarcastically called the task "amazing," and suggested Jean-Pierre’s publication won’t transportation overmuch weight.
"Did she find the manuscript determination successful that abdominous binder she toted around? If I were a historiographer penning astir the Biden White House, I wouldn’t disregard what Karine has to say, but it’s not an relationship successful which overmuch value volition beryllium invested — conscionable similar her briefings," the White House newsman told Fox News Digital.
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Former White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre speaks during the regular briefing astatine the White House successful Washington, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
A 2nd White House newsman said they wouldn’t person adjacent realized Jean-Pierre was successful the quality if Fox News Digital didn’t inquire astir it.
"She near the Democratic Party? I honestly didn’t spot that communicative and astir apt wouldn’t person adjacent noticed. I turned disconnected my KJP Google Alert connected Inauguration Day," the newsman reacted, earlier joking, "Has anyone circled backmost with Jen Psaki?"
Psaki, who preceded Jean-Pierre arsenic Biden’s property secretary, famously responded to pugnacious questions by declaring she would "circle back" with an answer, but those answers seldom came.
A 3rd White House newsman was "shocked" that Jean-Pierre had near the Democratic Party.
"I person to prime my jaw up from the floor. It is unbelievable that she, of each people, would take this path," the newsman told Fox News Digital.
"Just instrumentality a look astatine her full vocation and identity," they said. "You can’t alteration who you are conscionable due to the fact that you cheque a antithetic container connected a registration form. It’s besides disappointing to spot that she would crook her backmost connected her enactment conscionable due to the fact that it’s deed a truly unsmooth patch... it speaks to character."
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Reporters who covered the Biden White House are successful disbelief that erstwhile property caput Karine Jean-Pierre ditched the Democratic Party to pen a caller book. ( Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images, left, AP Photo/Ben Curtis, right.)
The 3rd White House newsman said it was wide assumed that Jean-Pierre would travel successful Psaki’s footsteps for the 2nd clip and instrumentality a gig astatine MSNBC oregon different quality organization.
"But these 2 property secretaries could not beryllium much different, and successful a way, erstwhile you are successful that relation you are auditioning for your adjacent job, immoderate that is gonna be. I deliberation it was painfully evident that she would not grip a occupation similar that, truthful no, I did not deliberation she was going to get her ain amusement oregon thing similar that," the newsman told Fox News Digital.
"I didn’t truly cognize what she was going to bash due to the fact that she did specified a atrocious occupation arsenic property caput and that’s some successful beforehand of the cameras and down the scenes," the newsman continued. "Many reporters felt similar KJP didn’t conscionable the mark."
The 3rd anonymous newsman said Jean-Pierre’s shortcomings became adjacent much evident erstwhile Trump property caput Karoline Leavitt took power of the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
"If you speech to radical who covered some administrations back-to-back, Karoline Leavitt is specified whiplash due to the fact that she understands however to physique a narration with reporters crossed the spectrum, and she is simply a prima connected camera," the 3rd White House newsman said.
An anonymous newsman who covered the Biden White House told Fox News Digital that Karine Jean-Pierre appears "desperate" to salvage her career. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios newsman Alex Thompson precocious went connected a wide-ranging media circuit to beforehand their book, "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," which details Biden’s intelligence acuity concerns portion successful bureau and accuses the Biden White House of lying to reporters and voters.
Jean-Pierre routinely dismissed questions astir Biden's fittingness arsenic White House property caput as aboriginal arsenic 2022.
The 3rd White House newsman doesn’t expect a akin property circuit for Jean-Pierre, who volition presumably look to debar questions astir whether she played a cardinal relation successful the "cover-up."
"I deliberation she’ll astir apt spell to affable media and that volition beryllium a large quality because, and I don’t deliberation the buzz volition beryllium there," they said. "There is simply a humanities grounds virtually connected camera of her, you know, saying each the things she said that turned retired to beryllium not true."
On Wednesday, the announcement from steadfast Legacy Lit, a part of the Hachette Book Group, insisted Jean-Pierre’s publication volition instrumentality readers "through the 3 weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a 2nd word and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision."
"She presents wide arguments and provocative grounds arsenic an insider astir the value of dismantling the torrent of disinformation and misinformation that has been rampant successful caller elections and provides passionate penetration for moving forward," the announcement said.
Jean-Pierre besides shared the quality successful a video posted to Instagram, wherever she explained that the caller publication was her reply to a mode guardant for Americans who consciousness distraught astir the existent Trump administration.
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A 4th anonymous newsman who covered the Biden White House said Jean-Pierre appears "desperate" to salvage her career.
"I privation Karine had breached from the enactment enactment during the past administration. Maybe past her property briefings would person really been utile each erstwhile successful a while," the 4th newsman told Fox News Digital.
Reagan Reese, White House analogous for the Daily Caller, mocked the conception that the longtime Democratic Party operative is genuinely an independent.
"Now that she's independent, I can't hold to perceive what Republicans KJP volition beryllium voting for successful upcoming elections," Reese told Fox News Digital.
Legacy Lit and Jean-Pierre did not instantly respond to requests for comment.
"Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines" hits retailers successful October.
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Fox News Digital's Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
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