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Daily Mail
04-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Video: Karine Jean Pierre insists Biden is competent in resurfaced videos
Take a look at all the times Karine Jean-Pierre suggested Joe Biden was physically and mentally competent to serve as President of the United States. The former White House Press Secretary has penned a tell-all book taking on his political rivals and revealed she is leaving the Democratic Party.
Daily Mail
04-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
The embarrassing truth about why KJP quit Democrats and wrote 'sell out' book
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre broke with the Democratic Party and penned a tell-all book after being rejected by The View, reports say. Jean-Pierre revealed Wednesday that she is leaving the Democrats and will publish a book titled 'Independent ', intended to be a 'look inside a broken White House, outside the party lines.' The former White House staffer was quickly criticized for the move as conservatives noted that she spent years defending Biden from questions about his age, health and mental fitness. But according to former officials who spoke with Politico about Jean-Pierre's latest career move, she only broke ranks after being rejected as a co-panelist on The View. Jean-Pierre reportedly had hopes of emulating her predecessor as Biden's spokesperson, Jen Psaki, who landed an anchor job at MSNBC after leaving the White House. Insiders said Jean-Pierre thought she was in line to join the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on The View desk, but her appearances as a guest failed to result in a job offer. The outlet described her rejection from the show as 'a factor that three of her former colleagues surmised likely led to the book.' It comes as her former boss has been hit by a round of tough press coverage with the release of Axios reporter Alex Thompson and CNN anchor Jake Tapper's new book, 'Original Sin,' which rakes the Biden White House for covering up signs of his decline. Tapper came under fire for his book as critics said he was part of the 'cover-up' of Biden's decline as CNN anchor, but Jean-Pierre came under even harsher scrutiny as she was the official White House spokeswoman under Biden. One Democratic operative who worked with Jean-Pierre told Politico that her U-turn this week is 'the most grift-y thing I've seen in a long time, and that's saying something in Washington.' Another former Biden White House staffer added to the outlet over text: 'SHE was the public face telling us all that this White House was on track and that Biden was amazing. And now she doesn't even want to be a Democrat???? 'She's making herself the middle ground here when Republicans hate her. She's not in any position to be a connector of our two party system and assuming she could be is just ego.' Jean-Pierre's publisher Hachette describes her book as an 'urgent, timely analysis' and urges Americans to 'vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines.' '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,' according to an online release for the book. Hatchette did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the allegations in Politico when contacted by the Daily Mail. The outlet reported that Jean Pierre did not respond. 'Jean-Pierre didn't come to her decision to be an Independent lightly,' it says – indicating she has leaving the party, after working in the Biden administration. She worked as a political director for Obama. She also worked for liberal outside group MoveOn. The write-up for her forthcoming book indicates she'll take on people within the party who tried to force Biden to end his reelection campaign after his debate disaster. '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,' according to the release. It calls it a 'hard-hitting yet hopeful critique.' The tome runs 256 pages, and goes on sale October 21. Although she has been largely quiet since Biden left office following former Vice President Kamala Harris's defeat, Jean-Pierre referenced some of the scores she plans to settle during an interview in February at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She said the 'toughest thing to see' was a 'firing squad' during the weeks after Biden's debate, when a series of party stalwarts pushed him to get out of the race, arguing he couldn't defeat Donald Trump with his lousy approval ratings. 'I had never seen anything like it before,' she intoned. '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.' Harris' loss to Trump in all seven heavily contested battleground states has led to a round of soul-searching among Democrats while Trump seeks to transform the country and takes on institutions from the Ivy League to the legal establishment to arts institutions like the Kennedy Center. Prominent figures inside and outside Biden's inner circle are getting quizzed on whether they themselves saw evidence of mental decline in the 82-year-old Democrat. The White House last year was forced to deny a report of an internal plot to entice Jean-Pierre to leave her post, amid complaints about some of her stumbles her reliance on a binder of prepared information.
The Independent
04-06-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Karine Jean-Pierre savaged after announcing she is leaving Democratic party and writing Biden tell-all book
Former Biden administration Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been slammed after announcing she's leaving the Democratic party and writing a tell-all book about her time inside the 'broken' White House. On Wednesday, Jean-Pierre, who served as both press secretary and a senior Biden advisor, announced the October 21 publication of Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, using the occasion to reveal she had left the party after serving in the two past Democratic administrations. Publisher's notes said the book would feature 'provocative evidence as an insider' and detail '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.' 'In an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we're seeing currently, what I have decided to do, and I really have thought long and hard about this, is to follow my own compass,' Jean-Pierre said in a video statement on Instagram. Critics laid into Jean-Pierre, pointing to her former role as a staunch defender of the White House, including against allegations that President Biden was in mental decline, which Jean-Pierre repeatedly dismissed. In a post on X, conservative activist Charlie Kirk accused Jean-Pierre of trying to 'trick everybody into forgetting the central role she played in perpetuating the Biden cover-up.' Her former colleagues in the White House and Democratic party also savaged the move, arguing that keeping Biden off the ticket was not a 'betrayal' but rather a key move that kept Democrats from further losses in Congress, cementing their ability to at least partially impede Trump cuts to liberal priorities. 'People will literally die because of Republican Medicaid cuts. Kids will go hungry because of SNAP cuts,' former Biden official Caitlin Legacki told Politico. 'The only reason we stand a chance to reduce the harm inflicted is the Democratic Party did the right thing here. It's completely nuts to be more upset that the Party didn't prioritize Joe Biden's ego and keep him on the ticket than to thank god we averted complete and total disaster.' A Democratic operative, meanwhile, told the outlet the book and party change was 'the most grift-y thing I've seen in a long time, and that's saying something in Washington.' The Independent has contacted Jean-Pierre for comment. Jean-Pierre isn't the only high-profile staffer to distance themselves from the Biden administration in recent days. On Monday, former State Department spokesman Matt Miller, often the face of the Biden administration's defense of Israel during its ongoing war with Hamas, admitted in an interview with Sky News that he believed the U.S. ally had committed war crimes. 'I don't think it's a genocide, but I think the — I think it is, without a doubt, true that Israel has committed war crimes,' he said, adding, 'When you're at the podium, you're not expressing your personal opinion. You're expressing the conclusions of the United States government.' The torrent of bad press follows the May release of Original Sin, from CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios reporter Alex Thompson, in which former officials, including cabinet members, described what they said was an extensive attempt to conceal the president's mental and physical decline from the public and members of government.
Daily Mail
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Meghan Markle's half-brother reveals he is penning new tell-all book about his famous sibling after relocating to the Philippines with their father
Meghan Markle's estranged half-brother has revealed he is writing a tell-all book about the Duchess of Sussex 's childhood. Thomas Markle Jr., 58, is writing the book in the tranquility of the Philippines, where he is supporting his and Meghan's father, Thomas Markle Sr., 80. 'When my book is finished, ooh it'll be swooped up real quick 'cause it's getting there,' Markle Jr. told the Mirror. 'I'm working on it. It's coming out,' he said, vowing that 'it's gonna be good.' Markle Jr. even expects his book about his half-sister will spin off into other productions. 'I really want to spin off the book, then when the book gets read, the documentary will follow,' he said. 'I'm not a greedy person, it's not about the money - it's about the principle,' Markle Jr. claimed, though he also admitted 'it would be nice to have a nice little cushion from selling a book.' He also claimed that 'everyone wants the book,' and he now has time to write it, as he cares for their mobility-impaired father on the island of Cebu - more than 7,000 miles away from the Duchess of Sussex, 43, and Prince Harry, 40, as well as their two young children, ages six and three. Markle Jr. has been highly critical of his half sister in the past, accusing her of telling 'malarkey' stories about her childhood on her new Netflix series With Love, Meghan. 'This is probably the first time I felt sorry and embarrassed for her', he told journalist Kevin O'Sullivan in March. When he was then asked whether his father had watched the show, Markle Jr replied: 'I didn't have enough heart medication for him to watch it. I didn't want him to kick the bucket, so I'd have to go refill the prescription before I let him watch it.' On the show, the Duchess of Sussex called herself a 'latchkey kid' who 'grew up with a lot of fast food and TV tray dinners.' She had also previously claimed that she 'grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler' and how her family was poor in an letter to US politicians, asking them to consider her plea for paid leave for parents. But on her claims that she grew up poor, Markle Jr said: 'That's just another one of the malarkey stories she sold to the Royal Family for sympathy. We weren't poor. She didn't have to rub two nickels together at Sizzler's salad bar.' Critics have previously pointed out that Meghan was raised in middle class comfort in the California suburb of Woodland Hills in a home Thomas Markle, an Emmy-award winning lighting director, bought shortly before Meghan was born in 1981. He sent her to Hollywood's private Little Red Schoolhouse, whose old students include Elizabeth Taylor and Judy Garland, where staff feed students six different types of organic vegetables from the school garden each week. When Meghan was nine he won $750,000 in a lottery and the money helped send Meghan to the $16,000-a-year Immaculate Heart Catholic School, one of LA's finest. In fact, in a blog post from the Duchess of Sussex's now-defunct website The Tig revealed the affection that she once held for her 'hardworking daddy' before he was shut out of her life in 2018. It is now believed that their relationship first became strained when he posed for paparazzi photographs prior to Meghan's royal wedding in 2018. The 80-year-old also suffered a heart attack just before the ceremony, preventing him from walking his daughter down the aisle. He has never met his grandchildren, but when his discussing his move to Southeast Asia in January, he said he is 'not running away' and is instead 'going in search of a more positive life. 'Every day I see something about Meghan,' Markle Sr. lamented. 'I wish her no ill will. 'My dream is that one day I could bring my whole family together, like a "normal" family,' he admitted.
