Report: Biden Aides Attempted to Replace Karine Jean-Pierre as Press Secretary

Report: Biden Aides Attempted to Replace Karine Jean-Pierre as Press Secretary


Top White House aides launched a failed plan last fall to boot press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre from her position because of poor job performance, sources told New York Post’s Steven Nelson last week.

The plan, reportedly hatched by White House communications chief Anita Dunn in the fall, apparently failed to materialize because Jean-Pierre refused to leave her position, turning down big job opportunities that President Joe Biden’s aides created for her.

“There was an effort to have some outside folks who Karine knows and trusts talk to her about why leaving last fall would have made a lot of sense for her and her career,” one source told the Post, calling it an “effort to encourage her to move along.”

Those who knew about the

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