Karine Jean-Pierre, the former press secretary of the Biden White House, is leaving the Democratic Party. 

What's more, according to Breitbart News, is that she is claiming that she is leaving the party, at leats in part, due to its treatment of former President Joe Biden.

Jean-Pierre is making some news headlines because of her new memoir and because of her decision to leave the Democratic Party. Whether she has other political aspirations is unclear.

‘IT WAS HORRIBLE’: Former Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blasts the Democratic Party in her new memoir, saying she thought Biden had been betrayed in the 2024 race despite giving “50 years of his life to serving the American people.” pic.twitter.com/jlzkbGcEbU

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"It was horrible"

This is how Jean-Pierre describes the Democratic Party's treatment of Biden in her new memoir.

She, according to Fox News, wrote:

Biden seemed to be totally at peace with his decision, but I was stunned, my feelings a blur. I was angry and sad. I was enraged and heartbroken that this man had given more than 50 years of his life to serving the American people, and in the end he’d been treated poorly by members of his own party. It was horrible.

Jean-Pierre's new book is titled "Independent."

Breitbart News puts what Jean-Pierre is talking about into context.

The outlet recalls:

During the 2024 presidential election, Joe Biden successfully secured his party’s nomination but later withdrew his candidacy after Democrat leadership insisted he drop out due to his age and potential cognitive issues. Democrats based this on Biden’s poor debate performance against Trump that summer, during which he appeared slow and confused at times. After dropping out, Biden’s then-Vice President Kamala Harris secured her party’s nomination despite no primary race before losing to President Donald Trump in a landslide that November.

She's done with the Democrats

Elsewhere in the book, Jean-Pierre talks about her decision to leave the Democratic Party.

She wrote:

The Democratic Party had defined my life, my career. Everything I’d done to make people’s lives better had been connected to it. The party was the vehicle that allowed me not just to have a front seat to history, working first on [Barack] Obama’s presidential campaign then in his administration, but also to make some history of my own as the first Black woman and openly queer person to ever be a White House press secretary. Never had I considered leaving the party until now.

Now, Jean-Pierre labels herself as an independent.

She wrote:

Now the cloud of unease hovering over me solidified into an idea about how I could possibly do something different. How I could channel my disappointment into some kind of concrete action that would allow me to fight for what I believed in without giving blind loyalty to a party I felt no longer deserved it.

She added, "You know what? I’m going to become an independent. I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore."