Overview
- Independent was published Oct. 22 and announces Jean-Pierre now identifies as an independent after condemning Democratic leaders’ treatment of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
- Jean-Pierre writes she saw no cognitive decline in Biden, blaming his 2024 debate performance on illness and travel fatigue, and she criticizes George Clooney’s New York Times essay as a “gut punch.”
- Her book recounts a July 21, 2024 Zoom where Biden informed aides he would exit the race, and it alleges an unnamed female colleague orchestrated leaks to push her out of the press secretary role.
- Interviews on CBS and late-night TV pressed her defense of Biden, and current White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused her of misleading the public during the administration.
- The Washington Post panned the memoir as grievance-driven, and conservative commentators cited roughly 24,000 Amazon copies sold to question its impact, while Harris’s 107 Days was reported by its publisher to top 350,000 first-week sales.