Biden’s White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre proposes her own moral code: Don’t be fooled.

The funniest news of the week — nay, the month, and possibly even the entire year — arrived in my inbox this afternoon, as I was halfway through drafting a postmortem of Elon Musk’s bogus journey through DOGE. I paused, shifted tabs to check my e-mail account, and found myself informed that the first true “tell-all” book of the Biden administration — not a Tapper & Thompson–style journalistic exercise in anonymous inside sourcing but rather an “I was there” memoir written by a major Biden appointee — was set to be released this fall. And who is the first Biden insider to stab Team Biden in the back? None other than former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Yes, her.

Are you laughing already? Well, hold at least a little bit of that in reserve, otherwise once I hit the punch line your eyes may be rolling out of their sockets and across the floor like ping-pong balls: The title of Jean-Pierre’s book is Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. “Outside the party lines,” you might ask? Yes, because the even more risible news is that Jean-Pierre has taken the occasion of her book announcement to declare that she has left the Democratic Party. She’s a political independent now, unburdened by the sins of the White House she served and in fact eager to step forward to explain how broken it was — now that she is permanently unemployable and needs a paycheck.

Rarely has any political memoir cried out less to be read. Jean-Pierre is the woman who stood in front of a podium every single day during those disgraceful months in the run-up to the June 2024 presidential debate, who smiled and smugly scolded an entire nation for noticing that Joe Biden was collapsing into babbling senescence before our very eyes. Jean-Pierre spearheaded the entire “cheap fakes” debacle, where Biden’s on-camera malfunctions were spun as the product of digital manipulation. (Even the Biden team itself has now confessed that it was amazed at how eagerly the mainstream media accepted and propagated such obvious lies, which raises its own questions.)

And now she has the unmitigated audacity to break ties with an administration she served in the most shameful way imaginable, to play turncoat in the hopes of saving her own hide. I cannot wait to not read this book. (I might read what someone else says about it, but she’ll never get my money.) Some stores (and presidential administrations) used to have a policy of “You break it, you buy it.” Karine Jean-Pierre, after enthusiastically prostituting her soul to the greatest presidential scandal in American history, now proposes her own moral code: She breaks it, you buy it. Don’t be fooled.