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TheProle

(3,903 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:06 AM Jun 2025

"Who cares": Congress' Dems say good riddance to Karine Jean-Pierre

If former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre thought she would set off a five-alarm fire among top Democrats by leaving the party, she is about to be sorely disappointed.

Why it matters: Democratic lawmakers who spoke to Axios characterized her personal motives as too transparent to be a knock on the party — and they don't exactly feel like they're losing their best messenger either.

- "Who cares," exclaimed one House Democrat. "It's easy for paid operatives to leave the party ... until they need something."

- Said another: "Her explanation for this move is as confusing and disjointed as her answers in her White House press briefings."
Jean-Pierre did not respond to a request for comment.

Driving the news: Jean-Pierre revealed Wednesday that she is becoming an independent after serving in two Democratic presidential administrations.

- The announcement coincides with the release of a new book, "Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines."

- The book's description decries "blind loyalty to a two-party democratic system" and promises to delve into "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."


https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/karine-jean-pierre-democrats-congress-independent
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"Who cares": Congress' Dems say good riddance to Karine Jean-Pierre (Original Post) TheProle Jun 2025 OP
She shoulda done her job better. Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #1
Hope she enjoys her book deal money. Abandoing the party is not the answer. brush Jun 2025 #9
Her announcement likely helped her book sales. Kid Berwyn Jun 2025 #12
Unnamed sources. travelingthrulife Jun 2025 #2
I'm gonna hold my judgment for more details..how many are jumping on the bandwagon without reading her book? Deuxcents Jun 2025 #3
What bandwagon? She. Left. The. Party. TheProle Jun 2025 #4
The bashing bandwagon..shoot the messenger and not hear the message. Deuxcents Jun 2025 #5
Maybe provide a link for this (lest anyone think you were expressing your own thoughts only) hlthe2b Jun 2025 #6
I inadvertently left off the link. Added now. TheProle Jun 2025 #7
Names Please?! Clouds Passing Jun 2025 #8
We'll soon have no one left if everyone abandons the party and wities a book because they have an issue with... brush Jun 2025 #10
She is pissed because Biden was forced to doc03 Jun 2025 #11
It potentially changes her bank account and talking head career "for the better" TheProle Jun 2025 #13
Really? I think leaving might lead to some Democrats not buying her book karynnj Jun 2025 #17
This is the best take. Her sole objective right now is increasing her book sales. tritsofme Jun 2025 #14
Before rejecting our of hand that she may represent a part of the party karynnj Jun 2025 #15
She lost her job. milestogo Jun 2025 #16
Karine Jean Pierre is leaving because they treated President Biden like shit LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #18
So she is going to abandon the party he spent a lifetime advocating for? TheProle Jun 2025 #19
She is protesting how some in the party treated President Biden LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #20
Oh I get it. TheProle Jun 2025 #21

Kid Berwyn

(23,022 posts)
1. She shoulda done her job better.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:08 AM
Jun 2025

We the People did not hear / receive the news that Biden was the best President of the United States in a looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
9. Hope she enjoys her book deal money. Abandoing the party is not the answer.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:23 AM
Jun 2025

Was that the hook to get the deal?

Kid Berwyn

(23,022 posts)
12. Her announcement likely helped her book sales.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:54 AM
Jun 2025

The title sounds like her DEMexiting was premeditated: “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines”

It is sad that she would leave the party in order to blame the party for "turning" against President Biden.

Deuxcents

(25,547 posts)
3. I'm gonna hold my judgment for more details..how many are jumping on the bandwagon without reading her book?
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:11 AM
Jun 2025

TheProle

(3,903 posts)
4. What bandwagon? She. Left. The. Party.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:13 AM
Jun 2025

And, after weeks of reading here that Tapper is digging up unnecessary bones with his book, her rehash of the same era is noble, because why?

Deuxcents

(25,547 posts)
5. The bashing bandwagon..shoot the messenger and not hear the message.
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:18 AM
Jun 2025

If it’s a book on the lines of Tapper’s then I, too, will bash away.

hlthe2b

(112,839 posts)
6. Maybe provide a link for this (lest anyone think you were expressing your own thoughts only)
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:19 AM
Jun 2025

Just sayin...


Her comments were in response to a litany of attacking comments toward Biden--and not only from R's who want to overrule his last legislative accomplishments as well as his pardons. Plenty of Dems are (unintentionally?) enabling this with their own poorly informed (certainly MEDICALLY UNINFORMED) comments.

Prole, please rethink posting these thoughtless summaries--at least without a link to whoever made them.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
10. We'll soon have no one left if everyone abandons the party and wities a book because they have an issue with...
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:29 AM
Jun 2025

someone. Unless getting the book deal requires that or course.

doc03

(38,841 posts)
11. She is pissed because Biden was forced to
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 10:49 AM
Jun 2025

drop out. That is what I understand as of now. How does leaving the party change anything for the better?

karynnj

(60,788 posts)
17. Really? I think leaving might lead to some Democrats not buying her book
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:22 AM
Jun 2025

Not to mention, if as it appears it defends Biden, it won't get readers on the right. Who will read this?

karynnj

(60,788 posts)
15. Before rejecting our of hand that she may represent a part of the party
Fri Jun 6, 2025, 11:18 AM
Jun 2025

they need to spend at least as much effort studying whether her feelings are similar to many in the party. I think the move to push Biden out was likely to cause bad feelings of it was a gamble that failed.

LetMyPeopleVote

(175,036 posts)
18. Karine Jean Pierre is leaving because they treated President Biden like shit
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 03:36 PM
Jun 2025



Here is a good interview that explains her decision



I am also not happy with how some treated President Biden

TheProle

(3,903 posts)
19. So she is going to abandon the party he spent a lifetime advocating for?
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 05:23 PM
Jun 2025

And encourage others to do so on the doorstep of a political apocalypse?

Good riddance.

TheProle

(3,903 posts)
21. Oh I get it.
Sat Jun 7, 2025, 07:33 PM
Jun 2025

I just don’t respect it.

She’s not a Democrat, so I don’t have to support her here. She can kick rocks.

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