‘Absolute Train Wreck!’ Political World Unites to Roast Karine Jean-Pierre’s ‘Embarrassing’ New Yorker Interview
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Former Biden White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s bruising interview with The New Yorker has been torched as an “absolute train wreck” after political commentators across the spectrum piled on to brand the exchange “embarrassing” and “incoherent.”
The interview with journalist Isaac Chotiner, published Monday, comes as part of Jean-Pierre’s promotional tour for her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.
The conversation, however, quickly spiraled into confusion as she attempted to defend her claim that former President Joe Biden was “betrayed” by his own party.
Jean-Pierre left the Democratic Party in June, accusing senior figures of forcing Biden out of the 2024 race after his calamitous debate against GOP rival Donald Trump. The party subsequently nominated Vice President Kamala Harris, who went on to lose to Trump.
Chotiner unrelentingly grilled Jean-Pierre repeatedly on her decision and her shifting loyalties. At one point, she appeared unable to clearly explain her reasoning, leaving the interviewer — and Beltway talking heads — utterly baffled as Jean-Pierre, who once defended Biden from the White House podium, seemed unable to defend herself.
The response online was nothing short of brutal.
New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait called the interview an “absolute train wreck.”
Journalist Josh Barro wrote simply: “This is painful.”
“I honestly don’t know what she was trying to accomplish here,” wrote Washington Post columnist David French.
Boston Review columnist and political scientist David Astin Walsh summed up the mood: “An implosion in real time.”
And the avalanche didn’t stop there:
Read Jean-Pierre’s full interview in The New Yorker.
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