Things are going so well for the Democratic Party that Karine Jean-Pierre, White House Press Secretary under Joe Biden and someone who clearly knew the man was no longer mentally capable, has now decided she&#8217;s no longer a Democrat; she is now an Independent.
I know, I know, it&#8217;s a little late to run away from the sinking ship, especially when you&#8217;re the person who actually drilled the holes. 
But Karine Jean-Pierre is now trying to do just that — and make money off of it. She has a brand-new book coming out titled “Independent,” which is hilarious coming from the least independent person of all time.
According to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/karine-jean-pierre-leaving-democratic-party-00385060">Politico</a>:
<blockquote>Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party — timed with the rollout of a new book — has detonated long-simmering grievances among her former White House colleagues about Jean-Pierre’s pursuit of celebrity and personal media exposure while serving as then-President Joe Biden’s press secretary.
The attention-grabbing ploy lit up Democratic and Biden alumni texting groups and reignited frustrations that burned for years about Jean-Pierre, according to seven former Biden administration officials granted anonymity to describe private conversations.</blockquote>
First of all, we should point out that everyone knew she was incompetent. For years I called her history’s worst White House Press Secretary because she was awful at her job, truly terrible, a joke.
And Democrats kept defending her.
Why? Because, of course, she was intersectional. She was a black lesbian who was also the White House Press Secretary even though she was wildly incompetent. We had a DEI hire covering for a dead man in the White House. And everyone in the Democratic Party thought this was perfectly fine until the moment it imploded on them.
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Politico continued:
<blockquote>One former official recalled that Jean-Pierre had joked about becoming an independent even while on the job in the Biden White House, an off-key comment for someone ostensibly serving as a major messenger for the Democratic Party. Another former official said that Jean-Pierre had begun working during the Biden administration with a New York-based publicist and had copied that person on official emails before some of Jean-Pierre’s White House colleagues intervened. “Everyone thinks this is a grift,” the first former official said of Jean-Pierre’s book project.</blockquote>
This is objective reporting because it happens to be true:
<blockquote>As Biden’s press secretary, Jean-Pierre’s halting, ineffectual briefings exasperated reporters and routinely offered material for the Republican Party’s main account on X. She frustrated colleagues throughout the West Wing for focusing on raising her own profile while leaving the hands-on management of media relations and the White House press shop to other aides. 
While it’s unclear how she will portray Biden or her time in the White House in the book, titled ‘Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,’ several former colleagues expressed confusion at how Jean-Pierre seemingly intends to paint Biden as a victim while pinning her own decision to leave the party on his “broken” White House.</blockquote>
This is going to be fun to watch Democrats tear each other apart over all of this.
This self-sabotage of the Democratic Party is the realistic response of a party of people who can&#8217;t build things. And right now, they are facing down a relatively impregnable Trump administration.
They&#8217;ve decided not to attack any of the vulnerabilities of the Trump administration. They&#8217;re spending all their time focusing inward, and they can&#8217;t help but do so because the reality is that their own politics are so broken and so angry and vicious and just anti-American in so many ways that they&#8217;re just tearing one another apart.

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Jumping Ship: Karine Jean-Pierre And The Democratic Party’s Meltdown

Jumping Ship: Karine Jean-Pierre And The Democratic Party's Meltdown

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Karine Jean-Pierre

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White House

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has left the Democratic Party after working for two Democratic presidents and a career of toeing the party line, most notably while also defending former President Joe Biden amid his obvious cognitive decline.
News about Jean-Pierre’s party affiliation broke with the listing of her new memoir, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” online. The Barnes &amp; Noble description of the book reveals that Jean-Pierre has become an independent.
“In a country obsessed with blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system, Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House press secretary to the Biden-Harris administration, shares why Americans must step beyond party lines to embrace life as Independents,” the description begins.
“Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly. She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden,” it continues.
In the book, Jean-Pierre “urges Americans to think outside of the blue-and-red box as we consider what’s next to save our democracy,” the description says.
Former President Biden promoted Jean-Pierre into the press secretary role in May 2022, and from then until the end of his term, Jean-Pierre served as Biden’s foremost apologist and defender.
Jean-Pierre repeatedly dismissed questions over Biden’s physical and mental health. In July 2024, after Biden withdrew from the presidential race following his disastrous debate performance, Jean-Pierre flatly denied that there was a “cover-up” to hide the president’s frailty from the public.
“There’s been no cover up. I want to be very clear about that,” <a href="https://x.com/therecount/status/1816206435656819178">said</a> Jean-Pierre.
The former press secretary was unsparingly critical of outlets that questioned Biden’s fitness for office, especially if those outlets were right-of-center. Asked earlier in July, before Biden exited the race, if she regretted pushing back so hard against questions about Biden’s health, Jean-Pierre <a href="https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1808289599401169250">responded</a>: “not at all.”
“Let me be clear, it was a certain part of the media – you can speak to this better than I can – it was a certain part of the media which was doing this,” said Jean-Pierre while talking to a Fox News reporter. “At the end of the day, they’re fakes. That what they were, targeting the president.”
“I don’t regret it at all. It was just the facts,” she said.
CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson recently released a book, “Original Sin,” that implicates the Biden White House in a cover-up of the president’s health in the book’s subtitle: “President Biden&#8217;s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again.”
Tapper and Thompson detail that for at least 18 months prior to the 2024 election, Biden’s inner circle and top aides at the White House strategized on how to keep the ailing president from being scrutinized too closely. The ailing president’s decline was so serious aides <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/13/biden-book-wheelchair-2024-campaign-original-sin">discussed</a> getting the president a wheelchair if he won reelection.
Many Americans were already skeptical of Biden’s health. In September 2023, a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/cnn-poll-joe-biden-headwinds">CNN</a> poll found that “[r]oughly three-quarters of Americans say they’re seriously concerned that Biden’s age might negatively affect his current level of physical and mental competence (73%), and his ability to serve out another full term if reelected (76%).”
Throughout the campaign and Biden’s final days, Jean-Pierre defended the president against questions over his health.
Last month, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-diagnosed-with-aggressive-form-of-prostate-cancer">revealed</a> that he has been diagnosed with an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer. The diagnosis raised fresh questions about the former president’s health, his fitness for office, and who knew what about his health during his time as president.
A spokesperson for the former president <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/joe-biden-psa-screening-2014-prostate-cancer-rcna208120">said</a> Biden’s last cancer screening was more than a decade ago in 2014, as a way of explaining how the former president’s cancer was missed until last month.
In her new book, Jean-Pierre appears ready to defend her record as Biden’s chief defender over questions about his health. The book’s description on Barnes &amp; Noble suggests that Jean-Pierre believes that Biden’s run for reelection failed because of “betrayal” by the Democratic Party.
“In 2020, she joined Biden’s campaign as a senior adviser, becoming Harris’s chief of staff and then, two years later, White House press secretary. She takes us through the three weeks that led to Biden’s abandoning his bid for a second term and the betrayal by the Democratic Party that led to his decision,” the description says.

Biden Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre Says She’s Leaving Democrats, Selling Inside Look At ‘Broken’ WH

Biden Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre Says She's Leaving Democrats, Selling Inside Look At 'Broken' WH

Joe Biden

The hosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View&#8221; ganged up on guest Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday, pushing back on his claims that President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 election victory amounted to a mandate to govern in the way he had promised on the campaign trail.
The show&#8217;s hosts — including fellow guest and former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre — complained that Trump&#8217;s slim margin of victory with regard to the popular vote meant that he did not really have the mandate Smith said he did.
WATCH:
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Karine Jean-Pierre whines about Smith acknowledging Trump&#39;s mandate. &quot;He does not have a mandate.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/rvinvWDYmR">pic.twitter.com/rvinvWDYmR</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1896968435264782407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;He&#8217;s been going around with his cronies touting his so-called landslide and blowout win, but he won the popular vote by 1.5%. One of the smallest ever and he won the general election by less than 50%. So what kind of mandate is this?&#8221; Joy Behar began.
Smith, a sports commentator, pushed back, saying that he believed it was a mandate — and he laid out in detail the reasons he felt that way.
&#8220;It is a mandate and I&#8217;m going to explain why — and I don&#8217;t mind the question, but let me be very clear: I&#8217;m not supporter of Trump, I&#8217;m a supporter of truth,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;And here&#8217;s the facts. The man won every swing state. He increased in terms of his voter turnout in his favor from the standpoint of blacks, Latinos, and young voters. He increased his numbers in that regard from 2020. 89% of the counties shifted to the right! That&#8217;s a mandate!&#8221;
&#8220;We can sit up there and play around all we want to, in 2020 Trump didn&#8217;t win the popular vote,&#8221; Smith continued. &#8220;He didn&#8217;t win the Electoral College vote. As a matter of fact, the Republicans haven&#8217;t won the popular vote if I remember correctly since 2004 — but they did this year. So 20 years after they last won the popular vote, they won the popular vote, they won the Electoral College vote, the man won every swing state &#8230; I don&#8217;t understand how people can look at that and say there&#8217;s no mandate. There&#8217;s a mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s a different definition of a mandate, I guess,&#8221; Behar protested.
Smith kept going though, arguing that the massive shift to the right was a clear directive for the Democratic Party to &#8220;find a new strategy&#8221; going forward.
As Smith left the set, Jean-Pierre was coming in — and she immediately informed him that she disagreed with his assessment.
&#8220;He won with the smallest margin of the popular vote since the 19th century,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said, brushing aside every argument Smith had made to assert that Trump did not, in fact, have any kind of mandate.

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‘The View’ Gangs Up On Stephen A. Smith Over 2024 Election Results

'The View' Gangs Up On Stephen A. Smith Over 2024 Election Results

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Joy Behar

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Stephen A. Smith

The View

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.
&#8220;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,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;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,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;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.&#8221;
When asked to clarify that she was, in fact, talking about Democrats coming out against Biden, she responded: &#8220;Yep, I had never seen anything like that.&#8221;
&#8220;That was, if you&#8217;re asking me, the thing that I saw in those three weeks, that was shocking. Shocking,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;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&#8217;s what I was seeing.&#8221;
&#8220;And you know, that&#8217;s what we decided to do for three weeks,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;And you know, it was truly, truly unfortunate, and I think it hurt us more than I think folks realized to have done that.&#8221;
WATCH:
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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.” <a href="https://t.co/GrFwP7muRo">pic.twitter.com/GrFwP7muRo</a>
— Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1895256069137740220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>

White House Media Briefing Held By Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Karine Jean-Pierre Whines Over Democrats Devouring Biden After Debate: ‘It Was Hurtful And Sad’

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White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> reportedly refused to let national security spokesperson John Kirby address the hostage deal at Wednesday&#8217;s press briefing because she wanted to keep the spotlight on herself.
&#8220;Zero news made in KJP’s final briefing,&#8221; said Fox News White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich. &#8220;She had no details on the ceasefire/hostage deal that will end 400 days of fighting, a defining element of Biden’s presidency – instead directing reporters to an NSC background call.&#8221;
&#8220;Sources familiar with the situation tell me KJP blocked John Kirby from briefing the press on the ceasefire, wanting to keep the spotlight to herself,&#8221; she added.
Alex Ward from The Wall Street Journal added to the report, posting on X: &#8220;White House press secretary Karine-Jean Pierre stopped NSC spokesman John Kirby from briefing at the podium today, during which he would have briefed on the Israel-Hamas cease-fire.&#8221;
Axios reported in October that Kirby&#8217;s appearances at the briefings had ended specifically because Jean-Pierre blocked him from appearing, despite Biden&#8217;s wishes.
&#8220;Jean-Pierre has long privately fumed about Kirby&#8217;s role,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;Having both of them at the podium was what Biden wanted, but Jean-Pierre thought that Kirby&#8217;s presence gave the impression she needed a chaperone.&#8221;
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She also complained that she was not given decision-making power over when Kirby would join a briefing, the report added.
Jean-Pierre only briefly addressed the news and tried to downplay the impact that President-elect Donald Trump had in securing it.
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During her final Press Briefing, Karine repeatedly pushed back on any attempt to credit Trump’s team for influencing the Israeli/Hamas hostage deal.
She was stunned to learn that the Biden State Department had credited the hostage deal to Trump. <a href="https://t.co/E4sFVsHaoy">pic.twitter.com/E4sFVsHaoy</a>
— Media Lies (@MediasLies) <a href="https://twitter.com/MediasLies/status/1879682137294803429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Details Emerge On Why Karine Jean-Pierre Kept Biden Official From Talking About Hostage Deal

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A new report published Thursday revealed new insights into the White House&#8217;s efforts to conceal President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> severe cognitive decline over the last four years.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/biden-white-house-age-function-diminished-3906a839" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Biden&#8217;s handlers limited who he spoke to, what information they gave him, and what news he consumed.
Nearly 50 Democrats — various politicians, aides, and administration officials — spoke to the Journal for the report in which they described the &#8220;hand holding&#8221; they witnessed from Biden&#8217;s handlers, which they said was unlike anything they&#8217;ve ever seen before.
The report said that Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline was so bad that a wall was built around him to mask his struggles, which were so significant that they could &#8220;upset the world order.&#8221;
Within just the first few months after taking office, Biden already showed signs of cognitive decline associated with &#8220;advanced age,&#8221; the report said. He simply could not do his job if he was involved in long meetings because he became &#8220;tired&#8221; and would &#8220;make mistakes.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s team told those who were allowed access to the president that they had to keep meetings very short and to the point with him if they were granted time.
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The report said that the degree to which his staff hid him from top lawmakers, donors, and even his own cabinet secretaries was something they&#8217;ve never seen happen with a president.
Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), then-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, reportedly tried to urgently get in touch with Biden before his disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan because he wanted to warn Biden that he was headed for disaster.
The phone call never happened and the rest is history: 13 U.S. service members were murdered in a suicide bombing and images of people falling off of airplanes during the debacle embarrassed the U.S. military.
Numerous officials said that they never got any time to speak with Biden and instead had to deal with his staff who seemingly did most of his work for him.
Biden&#8217;s staff worked so hard to shield his cognitive decline from the outside world that some of his own cabinet secretaries gave up even trying to communicate with Biden because requests to talk to him &#8220;wouldn’t be welcome.&#8221;
The cabinet secretaries who did have interactions with the White House often only were allowed to speak with Biden&#8217;s inner circle of handlers, not Biden.
As Biden&#8217;s mind continued to deteriorate over his time as president, so did the number of meetings that he held with his top secretaries, like Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the report said.
Biden&#8217;s legal team prepared him over the course of a week for his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in the criminal investigation into his handling of classified information. When the interview came, Biden could not remember most of what he had been instructed to say and he struggled to answer basic questions.
The report continued:
<blockquote>Biden’s team also insulated him on the campaign trail. In the summer of 2023, one prominent Democratic donor put together a small event for Biden’s re-election bid. The donor was shocked when a campaign official told him that attendees shouldn’t expect to have a free ranging question-and-answer session with the president. Instead, the organizer was told to send in two or three questions ahead of time that Biden would answer.
At some events, the Biden campaign printed the pre-approved questions on notecards and then gave donors the cards to read the questions. Even with all these steps, Biden made flubs, which confounded the donors who knew that Biden had the questions ahead of time.</blockquote>
The report said that some of Biden&#8217;s lower-level handlers had to repeatedly remind him of basic things like where he should walk and sit.
Biden&#8217;s higher-level handlers hid polling data from him, leading him to believe delusional things like the race between himself and Donald Trump was a tossup when, in reality, Biden was headed for a historic drubbing.
Top Democrats were forced to intervene and speak with Biden directly after learning that his staff was lying to him about his chances against Trump.
When confronted on a phone call in mid-July about the dire state of his re-election prospects, Biden &#8220;became angry when challenged&#8221; and told those on the call he &#8220;had to go to church&#8221; and hung up the phone. He dropped out a week later.

President Biden Speaks At Department Of Labor

New Details Emerge About White House’s Cover-Up Of Biden’s Cognitive Decline

White House Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> snapped at a reporter during Friday&#8217;s press briefing when confronted about President Joe Biden lying to the American people about pardoning his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden.
The exchange came after Biden pardoned his son last week and then took a trip to Africa and Biden&#8217;s White House communications team avoided doing on-air press briefings for several days, likely hoping that they would not be asked on camera about their repeated lying to the American public that Biden would not pardon his son.
&#8220;Zeke asked this question. I just didn’t hear an answer,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s MJ Lee began. &#8220;The next time that the president says he will or won’t do something, why should the American people believe him?&#8221;
&#8220;I answered that question,&#8221; Jean-Pierre claimed. &#8220;I don’t have anything else to add.&#8221;
Lee again pressed Jean-Pierre to answer, to which KJP claimed: &#8220;I answered the question. I answered the question.&#8221;
Lee politely asked Jean-Pierre if she could explain it in a way that was understandable for the American public.
Jean-Pierre responded by insulting Lee, suggesting that she was not smart enough to understand her response.
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&#8220;I can’t speak to you understanding the question or not or my answer or not on this,&#8221; Jean-Pierre snapped back. &#8220;I don’t have anything else to say. I’m not gonna re-litigate this. I did this on Monday for 30 minutes. I went back and forth.&#8221;
She claimed that Biden put out a &#8220;really comprehensive&#8221; statement explaining his decision to pardon his son for gun crimes, tax crimes, and other crimes that he may have committed.
WATCH:
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CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/mj_lee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MJ_Lee</a>: “Zeke asked this question. I just didn’t hear an answer. The next time that the President says he will or won’t do something, why should the American people believe him?”
KJP: “I answered that question. I don’t have anything else to add.”
Lee: “Well, what’s your… <a href="https://t.co/kA9CY72xCy">pic.twitter.com/kA9CY72xCy</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1865131868565443011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Holds White House Media Briefing

Karine Jean-Pierre Snaps At Reporter When Confronted About Biden’s Lying To Public

Hunter Biden

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Monday that President Joe Biden was being &#8220;truthful&#8221; with the American people when it came to the topic of pardoning his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden.
Jean-Pierre made the remarks during a press gaggle, in which video cameras are not present, after she was asked about the highly controversial pardon that covered every crime Hunter Biden was convicted of or may have committed over an 11-year span.
&#8220;One of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people,&#8221; she claimed, despite Biden repeatedly stating on the record that he would not pardon his son. &#8220;That is something that he always truly believes.&#8221;
Jean-Pierre pointed to where Biden said in his statement that he has always followed the principle &#8220;just tell the American people the truth.&#8221;
&#8220;Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.&#8221;
She claimed that Biden just arrived at the decision this weekend, despite contrary reporting.
NBC News reported that Biden had secretly discussed pardoning his son ever since he was convicted of federal gun charges in June and that the plan to &#8220;publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.&#8221;
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DOUBLING DOWN ON PACKS OF LIES: Karine Jean-Pierre denies she and Biden were lying when they repeatedly told the American people there would be no pardon for Hunter. <a href="https://t.co/DKPIEHpB00">pic.twitter.com/DKPIEHpB00</a>
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href="https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1863654378361495881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
Jean-Pierre was further pressed by reporters about Biden saying that his Justice Department was effectively broken and &#8220;infected&#8221; with politics.
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&#8220;He believes in the Justice Department,&#8221; Jean-Pierre claimed. &#8220;This is his words. He said this. This is the president saying this.&#8221;
When asked &#8220;how deep is the rot&#8221; within the DOJ and &#8220;how many selective prosecutions&#8221; there are in the department, she responded: &#8220;What I can speak to is this particular case, which is Hunter Biden, who has the last name of the president, who, I just said, there were political opponents who were very clear and very vocal about going after his son.&#8221;
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REPORTER: &#8220;He&#8217;s saying his own Justice Department is broken.&#8221;
KJP: &#8220;He believes in the Justice Department.&#8221;
REPORTER: &#8220;He just said it&#8217;s infected with politics!&#8221;
KJP: &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..
REPORTER: &#8220;How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?&#8221;
KJP: I can&#8217;t speak to that. <a href="https://t.co/qz2gssqifB">pic.twitter.com/qz2gssqifB</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1863624924285309151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>

White House Press Briefing Held By Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre

Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Biden Was ‘Truthful’ With Public About Pardoning Son

Anyone who might be anticipating a clash between the White House press corps and Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is likely going to have to wait at least a few days while Biden travels to Angola.
As soon as the news broke that President Joe Biden had issued a blanket pardon for his embattled son, Hunter Biden — who has been convicted on several felony charges and was still awaiting sentencing — many predicted an inevitable dust-up between reporters and Jean-Pierre, primarily because the latter has repeatedly insisted that Biden had no intention of issuing such a pardon.
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Curtis Houck posted video from a regular White House briefing that took place just one month prior, showing Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich asking Jean-Pierre about a potential pardon for Hunter — and as she had in the past, the press secretary insisted that there was no such pardon coming.
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REWIND to <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JacquiHeinrich</a> from less than a month ago <a href="https://t.co/r4a5YrUxcO">https://t.co/r4a5YrUxcO</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1863380219148501094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I&#8217;m so ready for the next Peter Doocy exchange with Karine Jean-Pierre,&#8221; one posted.
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I’m so ready for the next Peter Doocy exchange with Karine Jean-Pierre 👀 <a href="https://t.co/ekYarMUlda">pic.twitter.com/ekYarMUlda</a>
&mdash; 🇺🇸Jessica🇺🇸 (@Jessica_4_Trump) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jessica_4_Trump/status/1863416860080828429?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When someone asked whether Jean-Pierre was &#8220;dreading&#8221; the inevitable flood of questions, Heinrich pointed out the fact that there would be no briefing at all — and therefore no televised questions — for at least a few days.
&#8220;There won’t be any — no press briefing for the next few days. Biden issued the pardon before jetting to Angola late tonight. KJP will take questions on Air Force 1 en route, but off-camera …&#8221; Heinrich posted.
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There won’t be any &#8211; no press briefing for the next few days. Biden issued the pardon before jetting to Angola late tonight. KJP will take questions on Air Force 1 en route, but off-camera…. <a href="https://t.co/rdGpucifc0">https://t.co/rdGpucifc0</a>
&mdash; Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) <a href="https://twitter.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1863391948314116285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Jean-Pierre has repeated her claim that Biden would not issue a pardon for his son on several occasions.
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FLASHBACK: KJP in August 2023 said there was &quot;no&quot; possibility Joe Biden will pardon his son Hunter. 
Joe just pardoned Hunter. <a href="https://t.co/xoKjnuFnfl">pic.twitter.com/xoKjnuFnfl</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1863382544277819513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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FLASHBACK: Karine Jean Pierre is a liar. 
REPORTER in SEPTEMBER 2023: &quot;Would the president pardon or commute [the sentence of] his son if he&#39;s convicted?&quot;
KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: No
Joe just pardoned Hunter. <a href="https://t.co/xt6JnA8lJm">pic.twitter.com/xt6JnA8lJm</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1863382257848787023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Just days after President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Jean-Pierre repeated her claim.
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Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Joe Biden pardoning Hunter on November 7 following Trump&#39;s victory.
Her response: &quot;We’ve been asked that question multiple times.  Our answer stands, which is no.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/DKfkhGsxxg">pic.twitter.com/DKfkhGsxxg</a>
&mdash; James Lynch (@jameslynch32) <a href="https://twitter.com/jameslynch32/status/1863404781428990419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Biden became the first president to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-return-to-normalcy-biden-becomes-the-first-u-s-president-to-pardon-his-own-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issue a pardon</a> for his own child on Sunday. Hunter Biden previously made history when he became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a felony.

Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Holds White House Press Briefing

Anyone Looking Forward To The Press Corps/KJP Clash On Hunter Pardon Will Have To Wait

Pardon

Peter Doocy

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blamed the COVID pandemic for Vice President Kamala Harris losing the 2024 presidential election to President-elect Donald Trump.
Jean-Pierre made the remarks during Thursday&#8217;s press briefing, the first briefing that the administration has had since Tuesday&#8217;s election.
A reporter asked Jean-Pierre: “Does the President have any regrets about when he chose to leave the race or any regrets about deciding to run for a second term?”
“Um — so — look — um — the president is very proud of what he was able to accomplish,&#8221; Jean-Pierre responded. &#8220;He was very proud and when he made that decision to hand over the torch, pass the torch, to the vice president, he believed it was the right decision to make at that time. He believed that she was ready, she was ready to lead on day one and has been very proud in what he&#8217;s been able to deliver.&#8221;
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&#8220;What we saw two nights ago was certainly very much in line to what we&#8217;ve seen in other G7 countries, in incumbencies, the role, the toll that the pandemic took even though we were able to lead in the world when it comes to the economy,&#8221; she claimed.
She continued, &#8220;We saw what happened in other G7 countries, and so, that is what we believe. Look, there&#8217;s going to be a lot of punditry, a lot of election experts who are going to have their opinions, who are going to have their thoughts, but the president is very, very proud, very proud of what he&#8217;s been able to accomplish and incredibly impressed by what the vice president was able to do.&#8221;
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CBS’s <a href="https://twitter.com/nancycordes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NancyCordes</a>: “Does the President have any regrets about when he chose to leave the race or any regrets about deciding to run for a second term?”
KJP: “Um — so — look — um — the President is very proud of what he was able to accomplish. He was very proud and when he made… <a href="https://t.co/tp77SSuRim">pic.twitter.com/tp77SSuRim</a>
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1854610170976010735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 7, 2024</a></blockquote>

Karine Jean-Pierre Blames Kamala’s Loss On The Pandemic

2024 Election

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Kamala Harris

Pandemic

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy hit back on Tuesday after Press Secretary <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/karine-jean-pierre" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Karine Jean-Pierre</a> — now pulling double duty as a senior advisor to President Joe Biden — referred to his question about hurricane aid as &#8220;misinformation.&#8221;
The official Fox News X account shared video of Doocy briefly explaining what had happened — and why he believed his question was a legitimate one.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/pdoocy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@pdoocy</a> brought receipts to hit back against the White House’s “misinformation” claims against him. <a href="https://t.co/hM4Q5SldHj">pic.twitter.com/hM4Q5SldHj</a>
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&#8220;Peter Doocy here outside the West Wing, where this week, one of my questions about foreign aid versus hurricane relief was called &#8216;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/excuse-me-peter-doocy-squares-off-with-kjp-over-fema-biden-harris-hurricane-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">misinformation</a>,'&#8221; Doocy began, and then shared a clip of the exchange.
<blockquote>&#8220;President Biden is fond of saying, ‘Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.’ If he’s got money for people in Lebanon right now without Congress having to come back, what does it say about his values [if] there’s not enough money right now for people in North Carolina who need it?” Doocy asked.
“His values?” Jean-Pierre asked.
“That’s not misinformation,” Doocy said.
“No, it is,” Jean-Pierre objected. “Your whole premise of the question is misinformation, sir!”
&#8220;Excuse me?&#8221; Doocy shot back. &#8220;What part?&#8221;</blockquote>
The camera cut back to Doocy, who held up a piece of paper: &#8220;I&#8217;ve got the information right here. The vice president is posting on social media about $157 million in additional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-trashed-for-sending-aid-to-lebanon-while-americans-are-still-missing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assistance to the people of Lebanon</a>. President Biden is posting about how the Small Business Administration&#8217;s disaster loan program is going to run out of funding if Congress does not come back.&#8221;
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&#8220;To a lot of people watching these briefings, a taxpayer dollar is a taxpayer dollar is a taxpayer dollar,&#8221; Doocy continued, noting that the average American isn&#8217;t going to care that the money going to Lebanon — or to fund the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-unwinds-media-spin-on-fema-funding-for-illegals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resettlement of illegal migrants</a>, for that matter — was previously designated as such if Americans are suffering and the government does not appear to be moving heaven and earth to help them first.

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Peter Doocy Hits Back At KJP Over Hurricane Aid Dust-Up, And He’s Got Receipts

Hurricane

Hurricane Helene

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy provoked a testy response from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a Monday briefing, eventually prompting her to pack up her binder and walk out of the room.
Doocy pressed Jean-Pierre on Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217; weekend post announcing more than $150 million in aid going to Lebanon, noting that American citizens across the southeastern United States had not yet fully realized the breadth of the damage wrought by Hurricane Helene — and that the Biden-Harris administration had already announced the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) did not have sufficient funding to last through the remainder of hurricane season.
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Must watch TV as the Press Briefing leads to KJP storming out
Peter Doocy &amp; KJP get heated over Biden sending money to Lebanon without Congressional approval but refusing to do so for North Carolina.
Doocy: &quot;You can&#39;t call a question you don&#39;t like misinformation.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/4kgaVqW0s0">pic.twitter.com/4kgaVqW0s0</a>
&mdash; Media Research Center (@theMRC) <a href="https://twitter.com/theMRC/status/1843366593851478482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Doocy quoted President Joe Biden, who has often said that people&#8217;s values are reflected in their budgets, and argued that Americans might make certain assumptions about the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s values based on where the money was going.
&#8220;President Biden is fond of saying, &#8216;Show me your budget, and I will tell you what you value.&#8217; If he’s got money for people in Lebanon right now without Congress having to come back, what does it say about his values [if] there’s not enough money right now for people in North Carolina who need it?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;His values?&#8221; Jean-Pierre asked.
&#8220;That&#8217;s not misinformation,&#8221; Doocy said.
&#8220;No, it is,&#8221; Jean-Pierre objected. &#8220;Your whole premise of the question is misinformation, Sir!&#8221;
&#8220;Excuse me?&#8221; Doocy asked.
&#8220;What you don&#8217;t — yes, yes, it&#8217;s misinformation! I just mentioned $200 million to folks who are impacted in the area. And I just shared with you that people are deciding not to —&#8221; Jean-Pierre attempted to pivot, suggesting that the real problem was Republicans who suggested FEMA was not doing enough to help, which caused people who might need help to not ask for it.
Doocy recalled Biden&#8217;s letter to Congress, which asked for more funding to be allocated to FEMA as the agency was running short.
&#8220;The president’s letter is not misinformation. Would you agree?&#8221; Doocy pressed.
&#8220;No, the way you’re asking me the question is misinformation. There is money that we are allocating to the impacted areas. And there’s money there to help people who truly need it. There are survivors who need the funding, who need the funding, and it’s there,&#8221; Jean-Pierre insisted.
&#8220;You can’t call a question that you don’t like &#8216;misinformation,'&#8221; Doocy pushed back.
&#8220;I actually said we have the money available to help survivors of Hurricane Helene and also Hurricane Milton. Now, there’s going to be a shortfall, right? Because we don’t know how bad Hurricane Milton is going to be. And so, we’re going to need additional funding,&#8221; she said again.
&#8220;That’s exactly what I just asked about, and you said it was misinformation,&#8221; Doocy protested.
&#8220;What you’re asking me is why Congress needs to come back and do their job. That’s what you’re asking me. Congress needs to come back and do their job and provide extra assistance, extra funding to disaster relief fund,&#8221; Jean-Pierre said, packing up her binder. &#8220;That’s what Congress needs to do, and we’re gonna continue to urge that. You may not want that, but that’s ok. That’s what this president wants, and that’s what the vice president wants.&#8221;
With that, she walked out of the briefing, taking no more questions.

‘Excuse Me?’: Peter Doocy Squares Off With KJP Over FEMA, Biden-Harris Hurricane Response

'Excuse Me?': Peter Doocy Squares Off With KJP Over FEMA, Biden-Harris Hurricane Response

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