Ex-White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre might’ve left the Democrat party, but she still has the utmost respect for former President Joe Biden. On this morning’s episode of *The View*, Jean-Pierre—who worked as Press Secretary from 2022 to 2025—referred to Biden as “one of the most decent people” she knows, noting that her decision to register as an independent voter was largely inspired by Democratic leaders’ “disappointing” treatment of Biden in the weeks leading up to his withdrawal from the 2024 election.
“He literally woke up every morning wanting to make this country better for the American people,” Jean-Pierre told *The View*. “Whatever view that you may have of him, treating him the way that he was treated in those three weeks was awful. It was something that I just had never seen before. It was so disrespectful to a man who had given more than 50 years of public service.”
Following Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June 2024, Democratic leaders publicly called on him to step down from the race against President Donald Trump. Actor George Clooney even penned a letter honing in on Biden’s apparent cognitive decline.
Weeks later, Biden withdrew his campaign and threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris, who ultimately lost the election to Trump.
Jean-Pierre, for her part, “could not understand” why Democrats went about Biden’s takedown in the way they did.
“Why would they do it this way? Publicly. And in a humiliating way,” she said, while *The View* co-host Whoopi Goldberg added, “We ask that question. You couldn’t do this behind [closed doors]? You had to drag us all in here? It was crazy.”
Goldberg previously criticized Democrats for publicly discussing Biden’s decline during a September 2025 episode of *The View*. “The divisive, for me, is if the Democrats had kept their mouths shut and took care of this in-house as opposed to making it a public spectacle, I think people would’ve had a better feel about it,” she said.
*The View* airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.
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