Former White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reportedly hoped to be a co-host of “The View” after leaving the Biden administration.
The previous Biden spokesperson needed a seat on the desk on the liberal ABC Information speak present, Politico reported Wednesday, citing former Biden administration officers.
Her predecessor, Jen Psaki, now has a primetime internet hosting gig at left-leaning MSNBC.
Jean-Pierre revealed she was ditching the Democratic Social gathering on Wednesday and changing into an impartial in an announcement for her new e book, “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” which is ready to be launched in October.
Jean-Pierre appeared on “The View” a number of occasions whereas she was press secretary.
After former President Joe Biden exited the 2024 race, Jean-Pierre’s first interview was in New York with the present’s hosts.
In keeping with Politico, no alternative with “The View” materialized.
The present has had the identical six rotating hosts since 2022; that yr, it added Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro as co-hosts to hitch Whoopi Goldberg, Sara Haines, Pleasure Behar and Sunny Hostin.
After Biden’s administration ended, the previous press secretary additionally joined the co-hosts in March for her first tv interview since leaving the White Home.
At one level, she was requested if she believed Biden would have overwhelmed Donald Trump had he remained within the race by Griffin, who labored in Trump’s first administration.
Jean-Pierre largely dodged the query, in the end responding, “I don’t know what would have happened. I really — and anybody that says they do, they don’t really know, and so I don’t want to go to rehash the past.”
Jean-Pierre had beforehand likened the Democrats talking out towards Biden after final yr’s debate to a “firing squad.”
Axios reported on Thursday that at one level Jean-Pierre needed to look on “The View” as continuously as as soon as every week whereas she was within the administration.
“The View” and Jean-Pierre didn’t instantly return requests for remark.
Jean-Pierre, a veteran Democratic Social gathering flack who additionally served as a spokeswoman for the far-left MoveOn advocacy group, mentioned on Instagram that the e book was about not all the time being in a “partisan stance.”
She obtained pushback from a number of former Biden officers, as reported by Politico and Axios.
Officers have been quoted saying the e book was a “grift” and a “bizarre cash grab.”
