Karine Jean-Pierre, Joe Biden ’s former press secretary, has used her forthcoming memoir to urge Democrats to ditch the party and become independents, a move she personally made sometime after leaving the White House. And a number of ex-administration staffers are not taking it well!

In the wake of the news surrounding Jean-Pierre’s defection, and her claims about the Democratic Party in Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines, more than two dozen former Biden administration officials took to Axios to gripe about the ex–press secretary. One former White House official raged that Jean-Pierre is positioning herself “as an outsider when [she] not only...enjoyed the perks of extreme proximity to power” and “the name recognition needed to sell books of

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