Alex Thompson Burns Source Over KJP Book Deal: ‘If You Don’t Tell the Truth, Off the Record No Longer Applies’

Zachary LeemanJun 4th, 2025, 3:47 pm
 
Alex Thompson Burns Source He Says Lied To Him

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Axios national political correspondent and Original Sin co-author Alex Thompson accused a New York publicist of lying to him about her work with Biden administration staffer Karine Jean-Pierre.

On Wednesday, Thompson took to X to respond to a Politico report from Eli Stokols that pulled together reactions from former colleagues of Karine Jean-Pierre to the announcement that the press secretary is putting out a book about her time in former President Joe Biden’s administration. She also announced she is leaving the Democratic Party.

Thompson’s focus fell to the part of the Politico report revealing that New York publicist Gilda Squire was working “informally” with Jean-Pierre while she was still at the White House and was even being copied on email communications. Squire has previously done publiclity work for major publishers like HarperCollins Penguin Putnam Publishing.

“Funny. The White House repeatedly told me that this was not true back when I asked about Gilda Squire’s involvement in February of 2024,” Thompson wrote in reaction to the report.

The reporter then shared emails with Squire in which he asked Squire if she’d been “enlisted” by Jean-Pierre. She replied by telling Thompson “off the record” that it is “unequivocally untrue” that she was working with Jean-Pierre.

“If you don’t tell the truth, off the record no longer applies,” Thompson wrote. “Here is Gilda Squire’s denial at the time.”

Thompson also shared a screenshot from new correspondence with Squire on Wednesday, after he informed her that he planned on publicly sharing their prior communications. Squire lashed out at Thompson in response.

“How dare you write to me in this tone,” she said — adding that she and Jean-Pierre are friends.

Squire claimed did not “engage on a professional level” with her friend until she had departed the White House. She punctuated her email by telling Thompson “Do not ever contact me again.”

Thompson also shared an internal White House email from 2023 on which Squires was looped in.

“Here is one such internal WH email with Gilda being looped in with deputy press secretary Emilie Simons on Karine Jean Pierre’s fall 2023 Vogue profile,” he wrote. “(I have more but to give you an idea).”

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Zachary Leeman covered pop culture and politics at outlets such as Breitbart, LifeZette, BizPac Review, HollywoodinToto, and others. He is the author of the novel Nigh. He joined Mediaite in 2022.