Fox News White House correspondents share shock over Karine Jean-Pierre's party switch

Former Biden White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre stunned governmental circles by announcing she is leaving the Democratic Party and re-branding herself arsenic an independent. 

The move, unveiled alongside the upcoming motorboat of her caller book, besides shocked the Fox News White House correspondents who covered her intimately and acceptable disconnected a firestorm with their Biden-era sources.

"I recovered her, down the scenes, to beryllium a precise bully person," elder White House analogous Peter Doocy recalled connected "America's Newsroom" Thursday. "But it doesn't look similar anybody that worked with her thinks that, due to the fact that the knives are out."

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Fox News' elder White House correspondents uncover ex-Biden officials' dismay astatine Karine Jean-Pierre’s departure from the Democratic Party up of a tell-all book. (Fox News Digital)

Doocy revealed he's received a barrage of texts from Biden medication figures blindsided by Jean-Pierre’s determination and angered by her criticisms of her erstwhile team.

"If you told maine a twelvemonth agone that radical that worked for Joe Biden oregon Kamala Harris would beryllium sending maine this, I ne'er would person believed it," helium said.

Fox News elder White House analogous and White House Jacqui Heinrich echoed Doocy's sentiment, saying her sources were arsenic amazed by Jean-Pierre’s announcement and her disavowal of the administration’s messaging, which she helped bolster for years.

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Jean-Pierre’s governmental displacement comes up of her caller publication "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," which promises an insider relationship of her clip successful the Biden administration. 

Former President Joe Biden, accompanied by erstwhile White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre, jokes astir taking truthful galore questions during a quality league successful the Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House connected October 04, 2024 successful Washington, DC.  ( (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

The book’s steadfast writes that the memoir volition absorption connected the "three 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."

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Jean-Pierre often had a visibly tense narration with members of the property corps and was a staunch defender of Biden. She repeatedly defended the erstwhile president against increasing concerns implicit his intelligence acuity and carnal health, which she often brushed disconnected arsenic baseless speculation.

In a video promoting the book, Jean-Pierre declared her departure from enactment politics:

"I deliberation we request to halt reasoning successful boxes and deliberation extracurricular of our boxes and not beryllium truthful partisan," she said.

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Heinrich, however, questioned the authenticity of that transformation, suggesting her actions successful bureau don’t align with her caller message.

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"I would beryllium truly amazed to larn if determination was thing autarkic astir Karine Jean-Pierre," she said. "Including her quality to deliberation done things without the answers successful a publication successful beforehand of her, aft sitting successful that property briefing country for 4 years."

Heinrich, a committee subordinate for the White House Correspondents' Association, asked however Jean-Pierre could present assertion "moral clarity" aft serving arsenic the look of the White House’s messaging.

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"For her present to suggest that it’s clip to determination distant from the partisanship of this White House and instrumentality a existent measurement backmost from that… I would beryllium funny to cognize who she's going to overgarment arsenic the main messenger of that erstwhile she was the look of each of that, erstwhile we were successful there."

"There was an casual fix," Doocy added. "If she truly thought that the White House was ‘broken,’ she could person quit."