Details About New Biden Official Book Released
Karine Jean-Pierre’s post-White House pivot isn’t going the way she planned—and her latest effort to salvage relevance comes in the form of a conveniently-timed tell-all memoir. Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines is less a revelation and more a rebrand attempt by a former Biden administration mouthpiece desperate to distance herself from the crumbling legacy she helped defend.
JESSE: Karine Jean Pierre is so bad that the The View completely rejected her request to be a co-host. pic.twitter.com/2GCLZiKZi7
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According to Politico and the NY Post, Jean-Pierre had high hopes of parlaying her visibility into a cozy co-host seat at ABC’s The View, following in the footsteps of other media-favored Democratic operatives like Jen Psaki.
That plan reportedly fell through—likely because even The View couldn’t stomach the baggage. And with network doors quietly closed, Jean-Pierre did what so many sidelined operatives do: she wrote a book to recast herself as a truth-teller who just didn’t see things clearly at the time.
The backlash has been swift and merciless—especially from those who worked with her. Democratic insiders are skewering the book and the persona it tries to sell. One called her not “independent” but simply “incompetent,” adding that nobody needs to read her memoir when we “watched it.”
Others mocked her failed career moves, pointing out how former colleagues were “cackling in chats all day” over the shameless reinvention. The general consensus? This isn’t about moral awakening; it’s about money and damage control.
And then there’s the matter of Gilda Squire, the New York-based publicist reportedly entangled in Jean-Pierre’s White House life. Axios and RedState have detailed how internal staff flagged concerns about Squire being looped into internal emails about Jean-Pierre’s personal media appearances. Her PR hustle blurred the line between public service and self-promotion—so much so that the White House counsel’s office was reportedly forced to step in.
Jean-Pierre’s brief tenure was marked by spin, scripted deflections, and outright denials of President Biden’s glaring cognitive struggles. Now, she wants to be the outsider—one who claims to have seen the light after years inside the machine.
But few are buying it, especially within the very party she claims to have outgrown. And for good reason. The book is being read as a lifeline after the cable news world rejected her and The View passed her over. It’s not authenticity—it’s opportunism, plain and simple.