Dems Suddenly Realize Karine Jean-Pierre Is Terrible at Her Job

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre isn’t built for this crisis period. That’s the Biden administration: an endless cycle of crisis. None of these problems have been solved; even air travel has deteriorated under Joe Biden. This incompetent administration has created a scandal involving classified documents that could prove to be the most embarrassing.

The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago last year over Trump’s possession of classified materials. There was much moral grandstanding by Democrats, Joe Biden and the media. Joe Biden was seized with troves full of classified material at several locations in January 2023. This included his Wilmington, Delaware, residence. Mar-a-Lago is protected by the Secret Service and staffed by those with proper security clearances—it’s a secure location. The problem was the process. Trump could declassify anything regardless of whether he had followed all the rules since he became president of the United States. 

Joe wasn’t afforded that privilege as vice president under Obama. Some of the files were found in his garage. The search for Biden documents ended with Karine Jean Pierre declaring that more sensitive material had been found in her Wilmington home. It’s a circus, and these files were also labeled ‘top secret.’ Biden, along with Democrats furious that the moral high ground was lost, has received a special counsel investigation. It also means that Trump isn’t going to get indicted for mishandling classified materials, which was always a long shot since the office of the presidency has near-universal declassification powers. 

There’s no defense for this, and it’s not a cakewalk. Press secretary would be burning from all the heat being hurled at them by the media. It doesn’t help that the Biden White House refuses to explain why JoRo decided to leave the Obama administration with documents he could not possess. Democrats demand something to explain this fiasco—their strategists are also tossing around a new protocol: appoint a special spokesperson to handle all inquiries about Biden’s classified document circus (via NBC News) [emphasis mine]:

The White House declined comment on this article.

One person familiar with the White House’s thinking said: “It’s easy from the outside to opine how the White House could and should have done this, but the people saying that probably not now nor ever have they been subject to a special counsel investigation or U.S. attorney review.” 

Asked by reporters for information about the records she had in her daily briefings’, White House press secretary Karinejean-Pierre referred them to previous statements or referred them to other government officials. Asked by NBC News on Friday why the administration waited to publicly disclose the documents’ discovery until reporters learned of them, Jean-Pierre said: “Because it’s an ongoing process. Because, again, it’s an ongoing process. There is a process here. The Department of Justice is independent. We respect that process.” 

Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director at the Obama White House suggested that any White House press secretary in this position would face difficulties in terms of what information can be shared in the briefing room. 

“In an ongoing investigation where law enforcement is involved, the White House has to be very careful about what information it puts in the public domain. If you are revealing details in real time, before the White House and or [the Justice Department] has completed its investigation, you could be accused of ‘changing your story’ or trying to get ahead of the special counsel and litigating the case in the court of public opinion before the special counsel has even had a chance to start his investigation. There could be damaging long-term consequences for such actions.” 

Press secretaries don’t have to be powerless. They can speak with colleagues to get answers they can share with the media and the public. 

“You can’t count the number of times I threatened to resign if we didn’t allow such and such to be opened up to the public,” Mike McCurry, the Clinton White House’s press secretary during Monica Lewinsky’s scandal, said this. 

One step Biden should consider is naming a dedicated person to field questions about the documents so that the White House isn’t bogged down on a daily basis by a controversy that distracts from his policy goals, Democratic strategists said. 

“The White House should consider appointing a separate spokesperson to handle all questions related to this matter,” Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist, also served in Clinton White House.

You can’t fire Karine Grey Poupon due to the identity politics creed the Left has adopted with authoritarian gusto: you can’t fire the first black lesbian White House press secretary. It’s probably not a terrible idea, but it highlights how Karine can’t do the job. Like her boss, she hasn’t been able to perform her duties for months. Even top Democratic operatives and communications strategists know she’s low-caliber—it’s about managing this nightmare, and she can’t be QB1. Karine got bodied, but if you’re a Democrat, you need something because the line of questioning will be fierce this week, and everyone, not just Fox News, will be asking why Joe Biden was so reckless with state secrets.

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