Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre whined at an event this week about how the media and Democrats treated former President Joe Biden following his disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump in late June.
Jean-Pierre made the remarks on Wednesday at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics forum.
“Um, I, look, personally, I think what was the toughest thing to see in the three weeks [following the debate] was there was a disconnect from me, what was happening with leadership in the Democratic Party, and how it was truly as my former colleague, communications director Ben LaBolt said, it was a firing squad, and I had never seen anything like it before,” she said.
“I had never seen a party do that in the way that they did, and it was hurtful and sad to see that happening — a firing squad around a person who I believe was a true patriot, a person who I believe did everything that he can for this country,” she claimed. “A person who I believe, as I mentioned before, has done more in his, in one term, than most presidents had done in two terms, historical things, and I was shocked by what I was seeing.”
When asked to clarify that she was, in fact, talking about Democrats coming out against Biden, she responded: “Yep, I had never seen anything like that.”
“That was, if you’re asking me, the thing that I saw in those three weeks, that was shocking. Shocking,” she continued. “And instead of coming together to really be unified, and trying to figure out how do we save our democracy? How do we fight back? That’s what I was seeing.”
“And you know, that’s what we decided to do for three weeks,” she concluded. “And you know, it was truly, truly unfortunate, and I think it hurt us more than I think folks realized to have done that.”
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Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean Pierre on the post-debate fall-out.
“It was a firing squad…I had never seen anything like that before…that was shocking, shocking…It was truly, truly unfortunate. And I think it hurt us more than folks realized.” pic.twitter.com/GrFwP7muRo
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