“Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s new attempt to distance herself from the Democratic Party while diagnosing its problems is landing with a thud,” NOTUS reports.

“A vague synopsis of a new book from the former press secretary was met with jeers from her former colleagues.”

Said one former White House official: “She always talked about how close she was to Biden and now to turn around and do this. It’s so gross.”

Said a second: “How out of touch do you need to be that your takeaway from the past 12 months is, ‘I’m leaving the party because the party left Joe Biden.’”

S.E. Cupp: “I talk to a lot of Democrats, and believe me when I tell you, they are desperate to move past Biden. That’s hard when news from Bidenworld keeps popping up, and none of it good.”

“Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party — timed with the rollout of a new book — has detonated long-simmering grievances among her former White House colleagues about Jean-Pierre’s pursuit of celebrity and personal media exposure while serving as then-President Joe Biden’s press secretary,” Politico reports.

“One former official recalled that Jean-Pierre had joked about becoming an independent even while on the job in the Biden White House, an off-key comment for someone ostensibly serving as a major messenger for the Democratic Party. Another former official said that Jean-Pierre had begun working during the Biden administration with a New York-based publicist and had copied that person on official emails before some of Jean-Pierre’s White House colleagues intervened.”

Said another former colleague: “Everyone thinks this is a grift.”

Ashley Biden, daughter of former President Biden, issued a fiery response to a new book alleging her father is in cognitive decline, calling the claims “damn disrespectful” and “fake news.”

Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson debuted at number one of the New York Times bestseller list.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book, the AP reports.

“Donald Trump wants to ‘dictate’ policies like those of far-right regimes in the 1930s, a leading billionaire investor has warned,” The Guardian reports.

“Ray Dalio writes in a new book that the US president is acting like a chief executive without a board as he seeks to expand executive power even more aggressively than predecessors Andrew Jackson and Franklin D Roosevelt.”

Writes Dalio: “When I say that the policies President Trump is using to ‘make America great again’ are remarkably like the policies that those of the hard-right countries in the 1930s used, that should not be controversial.”

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New York Times: “A book the CNN host co-wrote has received positive reviews and appears to be a sales hit. But it has also generated intense scrutiny of him and his work.”

“First lady Melania Trump is getting an assist from artificial intelligence for an audiobook version of her memoir that was created entirely with AI and audio technology,” ABC News reports.

The reviews are in for Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson and none push back on the book’s central claims — that Joe Biden’s inner circle actively covered up his health decline.

The New York Times calls the book a “damning portrait of an enfeebled Biden protected by his inner circle.”

The Washington Post describes “an elderly, egotistical president shielded from reality by a slavish coterie of loyalists.”

The Wall Street Journal calls it “a conspiracy in plain view.”

Politico says it’s “a devastating portrait of an ailing, geriatric leader surrounded by mendacious aides.”

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A novel from Political Wire reader Carl Weinschenk was just published: Surviving New America: Hope Thomas and Her Enemies.

“The ascendency of Donald Trump during the past decade is such a dramatic story that it’s easy to overlook what made it possible.”