Karine Jean-Pierre switches affiliation to independent, releasing new book about 'broken' Biden White House

Former Biden White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre revealed Wednesday she was registering arsenic an autarkic and announced a forthcoming publication astir her clip successful the tumultuous administration.

Jean-Pierre, a longtime Democratic Party operative, is urging Americans to measurement extracurricular harsh enactment lines successful her caller book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines," according to the book's description. The statement besides says the erstwhile Biden property caput didn't travel to the determination astir leaving the enactment lightly.

"Until January 20, I was liable for speaking connected behalf of the President of the United States," she said successful a statement, according to the AP. "At noon connected that day, I became a backstage national who, similar each Americans and galore of our allies astir the world, had to contend with what was to travel adjacent for our country. I determined that the information we look arsenic a state requires freeing ourselves of boxes. We request to beryllium consenting to workout the quality to deliberation creatively and program strategically."

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. 

Ex-White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre fiercely defended President Joe Biden during her tenure. ( (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

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"What I person decided to do, and I truly person thought agelong and hard astir this, is to travel my ain compass. That's what I've done and that's what this publication does," she said successful the Instagram video, urging Americans to not beryllium truthful partisan. 

"The mode that I spot moving guardant successful this abstraction that we're successful close present is if you are consenting to basal side-by-side with me, careless of however you place politically, and arsenic agelong arsenic you respect the communities that I beryllium to, and susceptible communities that I respect, I volition beryllium determination with you, I volition determination guardant with you," she said. 

Jean-Pierre, a seasoned Democratic Party flack who besides worked for the 2020 Biden-Harris run and served arsenic a spokeswoman for the far-left MoveOn advocacy group, said the publication was astir not ever being successful a "partisan stance." 

The statement besides says that the book, acceptable to beryllium released successful October, volition besides look astatine "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."

Then-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds a quality league successful the Brady Press Briefing Room astatine the White House connected October 21, 2024 successful Washington, DC.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Several books astir the Biden-Harris White House and 2024 re-election run person been released since Trump's instrumentality to the White House, including Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's "Original Sin," which details the cover-up of the president's evident diminution successful office. 

Jean-Pierre routinely dismissed questions astir Biden's fittingness arsenic White House property caput as aboriginal arsenic 2022.

Then-President Joe Biden talks to reporters connected the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, successful Washington, aft returning from Rehoboth Beach, Del.  (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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"Don, you're asking maine this question," Jean-Pierre told erstwhile CNN big Don Lemon that year, aft helium asked a question astir Biden's quality to service past 2024. "Oh my gosh. He's the President of the United States. I can’t adjacent support up with him."

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In February, Jean-Pierre accused Democrats of unleashing a "firing squad" connected the erstwhile president, who was forced disconnected the Democratic statesmanlike summons past July aft weeks of unit from his party.

"I had ne'er seen thing similar it before. I had ne'er seen a enactment bash that successful the mode that they did, and it was hurtful and bittersweet to spot that happening. A firing squad astir a idiosyncratic who I judge was a existent patriot, a idiosyncratic who I judge did everything that helium tin for this country," she said.