Ex-WH press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claims she's no longer a Democrat in teasing memoir of ‘broken' Biden admin
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's longtime White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Wednesday that she has left the Democratic Party and is writing a tell-all book about the 'broken' administration she served.
Jean-Pierre, 50, worked as Biden's top spokeswoman for two years and eight months and stunned fellow White House alums by announcing the looming release of 'Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines' due out on Oct. 21.
3 Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly denied Joe Biden was cognitively impaired while she was the White House spokeswoman.
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'Jean-Pierre didn't come to her decision to be an Independent lightly,' Hachette Book Group says in a promotional release, which hints that she may focus her ire on figures aside from Biden in the account.
'She has served two American presidents, Obama and Biden… 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 tease goes.
3 Jean-Pierre is attempting to sell her book— in which she urges Americans to be independents.
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'In a hard-hitting yet hopeful critique, Jean-Pierre defines what it means to be part of the growing percentage of our fractured electorate that is Independent, why it can be worthwhile to carve a political space more loyal to personal beliefs than a party affiliation, and what questions you need to ask yourself to determine where you fit politically.'
3 KJP stunned Democrats by announcing she left the party.
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Biden stood by Jean-Pierre amid criticism by detractors and rivals inside the administration who viewed her as ineloquent and often unprepared.
'I think we need to stop thinking in boxes and think outside of our boxes, and not be so partisan,' Jean-Pierre said in an Instagram post Wednesday, '… this book 'Independent', it's about looking outside of boxes, not just always being in a partisan stance.'
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