Jen Psaki Trashes Karine Jean-Pierre’s New Guide In Main Betrayal
Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki threw some shade at her successor, Karine Jean-Pierre, saying her tell-all memoir is already “outdated.”
“I would say the book is outdated. I’ve read the book,” Psaki said during an Oct. 27 conversation at Harvard University. “In the sense of this, and this is a challenge with publishing a book, because it is published months before — I mean, you finish writing it months before it actually comes out.”
Psaki, now an MSNBC host, served under President Biden before Jean-Pierre took the podium. She pointed to the recent wave of protests against the Trump administration and Democratic lawmakers’ backing of the government shutdown to pressure Republicans into extending Obamacare subsidies. The record-breaking shutdown finally ended Thursday.
Jean-Pierre’s memoir, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, hit shelves in October. In it, she revealed she was ditching the Democratic Party, blaming its treatment of Biden after his disastrous debate with former President Donald Trump — the moment many say doomed his reelection bid.
“I don’t think you can look out at the country and see that seven million people just showed up to protest across the country — peaceful protests — or you see people who are activists in their streets and their communities with the military showing up and ICE showing up and think that the country is asleep, or the Democratic Party is asleep,” Psaki said.
She continued, “I just don’t believe that. I do think there is more work that needs to be done, and I mean that by elected officials and a range of people, but I think that it’s sort of a misread of what the reaction has been.”
Dee Dee Myers, who served as press secretary under President Bill Clinton, joined Psaki at the Harvard event and offered what she called a “cautionary tale” for Jean-Pierre.
“I haven’t read the book, but the only thing I would add is a bit of a cautionary tale. You come out of the White House, it’s a white-hot, red-hot, whatever hot environment, and you have a lot of feelings. And I just think to write a book that quickly is probably not well advised for anybody,” Myers said, adding that former aides should take time to reflect before publishing.
Jean-Pierre, for her part, has doubled down in recent interviews, insisting she saw no signs of Biden’s decline while she served as press secretary.
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