It's safe to say that the announcement this week of a forthcoming book by Karine Jean-Pierre has not gone according to plan for her, with the knives coming out and even more Biden-era scandals emerging in response to the news.
As we reported, the former Biden-Harris White House press secretary's book publisher, Hachette Book Group, revealed the information Wednesday, noting in a promotional release that KJP "shares why Americans must step beyond party lines to embrace life as Independents," while adding that "Jean-Pierre didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly."
The book, which comes out in October, is said to cover the tumultuous three-week period that followed Joe Biden's disastrous June 2024 debate performance, after which Biden was put under intense pressure both publicly and privately by Democrats, their elitist Hollywood allies, and mainstream media figures to withdraw from the presidential race.
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Jean-Pierre is already taking incoming heat from mostly unnamed former officials who are throwing her under the bus in describing her as, among other things, a no-talent, high-maintenance "grifter" whose focus while in the Biden-Harris White House was more about elevating her profile nationally than her job description.
But at least one former Biden official has gone on the record, posting a tweet in which he referred to KJP as "kinda dumb" from a policy standpoint.
Tim Wu, who from 2021 to 2023 was Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy, wrote the following message:
From WH policy staff perspective, the real problem with Karine Jean-Pierre was that she was kinda dumb. No interest in understanding harder topics. Just gave random incoherent answers on policy.
At some point, Wu deleted it, but as the saying goes, the Internet is forever:
Before Wu took down the post, another Twitter/X user responded by asking, "Is it the job of the press secretary to know policy? Does Karoline Leavitt know policy? The job of the press secretary is to fool the media into thinking you're giving access while deflecting criticism and spinning a narrative."
Wu replied, noting that in his view "Yes it is the job of a GOOD press secretary to meet with policy staff and try and understand what the Adminstration [sic] is doing and why."
The comments from Wu, who is a Columbia professor, only add fuel to the fire currently raging among Democrats and the press from the release of another book on Biden, "Original Sin," in which the authors confirmed what many of us already knew about Biden's decline during his four years in office, while documenting the extent of the cover-up and providing more details about what was going on behind the scenes.
As we also reported, while there were murmurings during her time as White House press secretary about people allegedly trying to convince her to step down, KJP allegedly had the confidence of Joe Biden and his handlers, which when you boil that down translates to they were satisfied with how she was handling her role in the cover-up, despite being bad at everything else.
Even if they did have issues with her performance, the fact that she checked off so many boxes meant she had a sort of "immunity" from being shown the door early, something she seemed to know when one reflects on how she acted towards the end of Biden's sole term in office.
And in light of the remarks from Wu and others, even more questions are going to be raised about the wisdom of installing KJP in the first place into the role of press secretary and, more importantly, why she was put there, which is going to make a lot of wokesters deservedly uncomfortable.
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