Karine Jean-Pierre says she couldn’t be a Democrat after Biden's 'horrible' treatment by party

WASHINGTON, DC: Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has revealed in her new memoir why she decided to part ways with the Democratic Party and become an independent after years.

An excerpt from her new memoir, 'Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines', which is set to be published on October 21, details the phone call where former President Joe Biden told the White House team that he was dropping out of the race, according to Newsweek.

Karine Jean-Pierre says 'it was horrible' to see how Biden was treated

Karine Jean-Pierre writes in the excerpt, "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."

She also reveals in her new book that she never thought Biden would drop out.

The former White House press secretary repeatedly touted Biden’s physical and mental viability from her position despite the uproar surrounding his apparent cognitive decline. The attacks the former president faced from his own party, which ultimately led him to drop out of the race, made Jean-Pierre feel he had been betrayed.

"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," Jean-Pierre writes in her book. 

Karine Jean-Pierre reflects on her 'The View' appearance after Biden's announcement

Karine Jean-Pierre also mentions how she planned to make her first television appearance after Joe Biden's bombshell announcement on ABC's talk show, 'The View'.

"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 writes.

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

Furthermore, she accuses Democrats of unleashing a "firing squad" on Biden, who dropped out of the presidential race last year after facing weeks of pressure from his party following his dismal debate performance against President Donald Trump.

Jean-Pierre revealed she was leaving the Democratic Party while announcing her book in June. 

The 51-year-old worked on several Democratic presidential campaigns and was an MSNBC political analyst before she took on the high-profile White House role.