Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is leaving the Democratic Party and writing that its betrayal led to former President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 election, according to a statement from Legacy Lit, who is publishing her upcoming book.
Jean-Pierre announced her new book “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” set to publish in October 2025 on Wednesday. The book, according to her publisher Legacy Lit, encourages Americans to “vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines.”
“Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly. She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden,” the book description from Legacy Lit reads.
“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 statement continues. (RELATED: CNN Host Confronts Nancy Pelosi Over Her Role In Biden Dropping Out)
U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, jokes about taking so many questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on October 04, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Jean-Pierre posted a video on Wednesday explaining her decision to write the book.
“In an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we’re seeing currently, right now, what I have decided to do, and I really have thought long and hard about this, is to follow my own compass. And that’s what I’ve done, and that’s what this book does,” Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
“And here’s the truth, and here’s how I will lay it out to you. I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes, and not be so partisan. And the way that I see moving forward in this space that we’re in right now is if you are willing to stand side by side with me, regardless of your political — how you identify politically, and as long as you respect the community that I belong to and vulnerable communities that I respect, I will be there with you. I will be, I will move forward with you,” she continues.
During the Biden administration, Jean-Pierre defended the former president’s fitness as concerns about his declining state grew. Just weeks before Biden dropped out of the race, she decried videos of the former president looking lost and wandering off as “cheap fakes,” claiming they were edited to make the 82-year-old look bad.
Jean-Pierre repeatedly assured reporters that Biden wouldn’t be pardoning his son Hunter Biden, only for the former president to eventually do the opposite. (RELATED: Here Are Times Biden, KJP Promised President Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Before Breaking His Word)
“You have said repeatedly yourself since the election and the president has said for months no pardon was coming. I wanted to ask you, could those statements now be seen as lies to the American people?” one reporter asked Jean-Pierre after the pardon. “Is there really a credibility issue here now given this announcement?”
“First of all, one of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always truly believes,” the former press secretary said, trying to defend her previous statements.
