On Thursday during the third hour on FNC’s Fox & Friends, senior White House correspondent and Briefing Room purveyor Peter Doocy excoriated Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre over her proclamation that she’s left the Democrat Party and has penned a book Independent with a subtitle implying the place she worked for four years was a dumpster fire.

Doocy ran through former President Biden’s statement responding to the Justice Department probe into the Biden regime’s use of autopen when he stated the reality that Jean-Pierre was not considered part of Biden’s “inner, inner circle.”

Instead, though, Doocy noted her return to the spotlight was slammed by anonymous former colleagues in Politico as having embarked on a “grift” and “monet[ized]...dumb” “ideas.”

Doocy then gave his two cents, which notably are a vast difference from the collegial back-and-forth (and one could argue a sense of mutual respect) with Jean-Pierre’s predecessor, Jen Psaki:

[S]o now we’ll wait to see if there is a chapter about the time she told me there was no cover-up of President Biden’s decline or the time that she told me questions about his acuity were a rabbit hole in this book about misinformation and disinformation.

He also revealed that, “believe it or not, some Biden folks were texting me yesterday and they think she will use this to settle scores against two people in particular, at the Biden White House, who it has been widely reported she had beef with.”

The first, Doocy’s sources predicted, “would be John Kirby, who she actively blocked from the podium even though he was a favorite of President Biden.”

That’s not a total surprise given the litany of stories Axios’s Alex Thompson penned (see here, here, and here) that detailed a frosty-to-nasty rivalry/dispute between the two with Jean-Pierre clearly being jealous of Kirby’s alleged rapport with Biden and, well, a better grasp of English.

The other person Doocy’s sources believe would be the target of her book is Anita Dunn as “there were various stories last year that Anita Dunn was offering her — was getting her jobs outside the White House and saying, please just take this job, you’ll make more money, and go and it never happened.”

For his part, Doocy said this could all boil down to Jean-Pierre praising Biden, but saying those around him were “the problem.”

Doocy correctly laid waste to that possible thesis, concluding with a brutal zing about Jean-Pierre having claimed her book was about fighting “disinformation” and “misinformation” when her tenure was defined by her spewing it daily:

[S]o, it’s possible that she says President Biden was — was a nice guy. It was his staff, but the problem is she remained in the job. So, no matter what she writes unless she says there was somebody standing with a gun to her head right behind the little door that slides open and saying, you better say that he’s okay and that it’s a conspiracy to ask questions or suggest otherwise, or else, then I don’t know how it’s going to work saying there’s too much misinformation and disinformation except in her book.

After the co-hosts chuckled in saying Jean-Pierre would declare in her book Doocy was right, Doocy disagreed and instead said he’s “sure my name will be in there about somebody who gave her a really hard time.”

This went into a sarcastic mic-drop from Doocy:

I’m sure my name will be in there about somebody who gave her a really hard time. But it seems like she is framing this book as she was the one person in the White House on either side of the podium who was — who had an independent streak and was battling against all this. I didn’t read it. I — I don’t have an advance copy, she did not ask for my insight. But it’s out in October and you can order it now on Amazon.

To see the relevant FNC transcript from June 5, click “expand.”

FNC’s Fox & Friends
June 5, 2025
8:05 a.m. Eastern

PETER DOOCY: President Biden has never been one to weigh in on news of the day in real time, so he must be bothered by this talk here at the Trump White House about possibility of Biden aides pulling the string — pulling the strings while he declined. So, now, President Biden’s office tells us this: “Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made decisions about pardons, executive orders, and proclamations. Any suggestion I didn’t is ridiculous and false.” But the current President, Trump, ordered the DOJ with a new memo last night to investigate if “former President Biden’s aides abused power of Presidential signature through use of autopen to hide cognitive decline and assert Article II authority.” There are now five senior staffers asked to appear for interviews about the President’s mental health. Michael Donilon, Anita Dunn, Ron Klain, Bruce Reed, Steve Ricchetti. That is the inner, inner circle of Biden world. The press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre not on the list, but. Biden officials are telling Politico: “Everyone thinks this is a grift.” Somebody else says: “She made a joke about being independent last year and now a book. All ideas are monetary — even the dumb ones.” Here is her pitch.

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: Misinformation and disinformation, the regressive necessary of social policy, what we’re seeing currently 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. [SCREEN WIPE] It’s about looking outside of boxes, not just always being in a partisan stance.

DOOCY: Yeah, so now we’ll wait to see if there is a chapter about the time she told me there was no cover-up of President Biden’s decline or the time that she told me questions about his acuity were a rabbit hole in this book about misinformation and disinformation. Back to you.

BRIAN KILMEADE: Oh, Peter, I don’t know what to interpret this, my colleagues think she defends Joe Biden in the book. But by the subtitle, Broken White House, it makes me think she might break from Biden in the book.

DOOCY: I, believe it or not, some Biden folks were texting me yesterday and they think she will use this to settle scores against two people in particular, at the Biden White House, who it has been widely reported she had beef with, which would be John Kirby, who she actively blocked from the podium even though he was a favorite of President Biden. [JONES LAUGHS] And Anita Dunn who, there were various stories last year that Anita Dunn was offering her — was getting her jobs outside the White House and saying, please just take this job, you’ll make more money, and go. And it never happened, so it’s possible that she says President Biden was — was a nice guy. It was his staff, but the problem is she remained in the job. So, no matter what she writes unless she says there was somebody standing with a gun to her head right behind the little door that slides open and saying, you better say that he’s okay and that it’s a conspiracy to ask questions or suggest otherwise, or else, then I don’t know how it’s going to work saying there’s too much misinformation and disinformation except in her book.

LAWRENCE JONES: It’s so true.

AINSLEY EARHARDT: I think your name will be in the book, too?

KILMEADE: It is crazy. It’s insane.

DOOCY: What is she going to say? Like, Peter Doocy was right? [HOSTS LAUGH]

JONES: I guess she should.

KILMEADE: I was just asking questions.

DOOCY: No. No. She’s not.

JONES: She should.

DOOCY: I will — I’ll bet you guys $1 each that’s not in there.

KILMEADE: Right. But I could see —

EARHARDT: You don’t think your name will be in the book? You were the one who kept asking so many questions that were challenging.

DOOCY: I’m sure my name will be in there about somebody who gave her a really hard time. But it seems like she is framing this book as she was the one person in the White House on either side of the podium who was — who had an independent streak —

JONES: Oh, my God. That is laughable.

DOOCY: — and was battling against all this. I didn’t read it. I — I don’t have an advance copy, she did not ask for my insight.

KILMEADE: Right.

DOOCY: But it’s out in October and you can order it now on Amazon.

KILMEADE: I can see Pete’s biography being, Peter Doocy Was Right.

JONES: That’s right.

KILMEADE: That’s your autobiography. But thank you, Peter.

DOOCY: That’s more like a — more like a bumper sticker.