Karine Jean-Pierre’s sudden rebranding as an “Independent” is the latest vanity project from a former Biden press secretary trying to rewrite her résumé and the last administration’s failures for public consumption. Her publisher has even built a book around the idea, but the timing and tone reek of a political pivot rather than a principled break with the party she served for years.
Anyone with a memory knows Jean-Pierre’s career was forged inside Democratic circles — Obama campaigns, Biden’s White House, and a lifetime of partisan advocacy — so her claim to be some neutral arbiter now is transparently convenient. She may call herself independent on paper, but actions and allegiances matter more than marketing copy, and her record shows she was playing for Team Blue until she wasn’t.
Megyn Kelly and others on the right were right to call out this sudden conversion as laughable and self-serving, and even former inside players like Sean Spicer sniffed the same stench of political theater. The public saw Jean-Pierre as part of the administration’s spin operation, and watching her try to rehabilitate that image on a promotional circuit only reinforces that skepticism.
Jean-Pierre’s effort to paper over the Biden White House’s collapse by insisting “Joe Biden, objectively, had a very successful four years” is not just tone-deaf — it’s gaslighting for anyone who lived through the chaos of 2024. Her book blurb and interviews frame her departure from the Democratic Party as a reaction to internal betrayal, but that explanation doesn’t erase the fact that voters and analysts watched a president visibly falter on the national stage.
Conservative Americans shouldn’t be fooled by this PR tour. The same people who defended every stumble and obscured every sharp decline are now trying to sell nostalgia and self-pity as independent thinking — it’s a classic establishment dodge meant to shrug off responsibility. The media will cheer the rebrand, but working families deserve honesty about what happened, not a glossy new memoir that recasts propagandists as truth-tellers.
We should applaud anyone willing to call these narratives out, and Megyn Kelly’s blunt assessment is exactly the kind of straight talk America needs right now. Voters are tired of doublespeak and political theater; they want leaders and commentators who tell the truth plainly and hold the powerful accountable. If Jean-Pierre truly meant what she says about independence, she would start by owning the failures she helped defend instead of monetizing them.
