Ex-Biden Official Goes on Record: Karine Jean-Pierre ‘Kinda Dumb’ and Gave ‘Random Incoherent Answers on Policy’
Ex-Biden policy advisor Tim Wu slammed former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as “kinda dumb” in a scathing but now-deleted public takedown following her exit from the Democratic Party on Wednesday and promise of a tell-all memoir.
For many inside the White House during her tenure, Jean-Pierre’s announcement reignited bitter tensions. But Wu, who was a key figure in the administration’s tech competition policy, became one of the first of Jean-Pierre’s former colleagues to publicly disavow her and challenge her motives.
In a blistering post on X on Wednesday, which was later deleted, Wu wrote: “From WH policy staff perspective, the real problem with Karine Jean-Pierre was that she was kinda dumb. No interest in understanding harder topics. Just gave random incoherent answers on policy.”
(Screengrab via X)
Jean-Pierre, who served as former President Joe Biden’s press secretary for more than two years, revealed this week she is leaving the Democratic Party and releasing a memoir titled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines. The book promises a scathing assessment of Biden’s final years in office, detailing what she calls “the betrayal by the Democratic Party” that led to his aborted re-election bid.
Jean-Pierre’s pivot, according to Axios, drew immediate backlash from those she previously worked with.
“One of the most ineffectual and unprepared people I’ve ever worked with,” one former colleague told the outlet. “She had meltdowns after any interview that asked about a topic not sent over by producers.”
Others accused Jean-Pierre of having engaged in self-promotion, pointing to her magazine profiles, appearances on The View, and a publicity machine reportedly run through a New York publicist in a tenure that critics say was defined by allegedly using her platform to boost her public image.
One ex-official put it bluntly in conversation with Axios: “Today Karine lost the only constituency that ever supported her – party line Democrats.”
This article has been updated to include that Wu deleted his post soon after Mediaite published.
