{"id":169,"date":"2025-05-31T01:31:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=169"},"modified":"2025-05-31T01:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T01:31:21","slug":"karine-jean-pierre-claims-biden-harris-press-team-was-best-in-the-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/?p=169","title":{"rendered":"Karine Jean-Pierre Claims Biden-Harris Press Team Was \u2018Best In the Business\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Conservative social media users criticized White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre this week after she shared a photo of the White House communications team, praising them as the \u201cbest team in the business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics of President Biden on X swiftly challenged the post, disputing her claim and accusing Jean-Pierre of consistently misrepresenting facts on behalf of the president throughout his tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt takes an army to come up with non-answers and lies,\u201d conservative columnist Tim Young commented on Jean-Pierre\u2019s post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outgoing press secretary posted a photo on her X account Friday, showing her alongside President Biden and about a dozen staff members, all smiling for the camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She then captioned the photo, stating, \u201cHere\u2019s to the best team in the business. I couldn\u2019t do it without you. Let\u2019s run through the tape! #thewestwing #POTUS #WhiteHouse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Here&#39;s to the best team in the business. I couldn&#39;t do it without you. Let&#39;s run through the tape! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/thewestwing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#thewestwing<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/POTUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#POTUS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WhiteHouse?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WhiteHouse<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFl7Bjua73\">pic.twitter.com\/bFl7Bjua73<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Karine Jean-Pierre Archived (@PressSec46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressSec46\/status\/1875280142878265836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo went viral and attracted criticism from many critics who vented their frustration with Jean-Pierre\u2019s tenure as press secretary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington Times columnist Tim Murtaugh gave the outgoing press secretary and her staff a stern goodbye,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TimMurtaugh\/status\/1875537187284091247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">writing<\/a>, \u201cThis \u2018best team in the business\u2019 lied to the world about the mental &amp; physical fitness of the president and, ultimately, failed. Their work led to Trump\u2019s huge win, which was a complete repudiation of everything they did in the most important jobs they\u2019ll ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNice work,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Free Press columnist Eli Lake&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EliLake\/status\/1875379244655899075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked<\/a>, \u201cIn what business is this the best team?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cObviously KJP\u2019s next career will be in writing comedy. She\u2019s pretty good at it, apparently,\u201d the USA Features Media account&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UsaFeatures\/status\/1875877380344230007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservative radio host Michael Berry ripped Jean-Pierre and her team,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MichaelBerrySho\/status\/1875386773968449987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posting<\/a>, \u201cDumb and dumber. And dumber. And even dumber. And yet more dumb. And shockingly even dumber than that. And . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re actually all the worst in the business which means they\u2019ll be making $300k+ in That Town within a couple months,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChuckRossDC\/status\/1875392796938715178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added<\/a>&nbsp;Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fox News columnist David Marcus criticized the White House communications team, accusing them of misrepresenting President Biden\u2019s health and other significant issues throughout his presidency. \u201cSo these are the people who aided in lying to the American citizenry about Biden\u2019s mental capacity and plans to pardon his son. Got it. I\u2019d put a bag over my head I were one of them,\u201d he&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BlueBoxDave\/status\/1875307114547351712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RedState.com writer Bonchie&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bonchieredstate\/status\/1875547188039971248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>, \u201cI keep waiting for her to exhibit some semblance of shame, but she just doesn\u2019t have it in her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federalist editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway also shredded KJP and her team,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1875384891816468501\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declaring<\/a>, \u201cThere is not an easier job in the universe than being press secretary for a Democrat. And yet somehow y\u2019all still failed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jean-Pierre\u2019s final year as press secretary was punctuated by a series of high-profile missteps and controversial defenses of President Biden\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notable moments included sparking a feud with CBS reporter Ed O\u2019Keefe when she declined to address his question about a neurologist from Walter Reed Military Medical Center visiting Biden multiple times that year. She also faced backlash for labeling criticism of Biden\u2019s inflammatory rhetoric about then-candidate Donald Trump\u2014who had narrowly escaped two assassination attempts\u2014as \u201cincredibly dangerous.\u201d Additionally, she dismissed circulating videos of Biden appearing frail as \u201ccheap fakes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout her tenure, she often struggled to answer basic questions as though she was searching for an appropriate response, leading to a wave of criticism even from many \u2018mainstream\u2019 reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative social media users criticized White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre this week after she shared a photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/states-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}