Stephen Colbert Calls Out Biden’s Ex-Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in a Sharp Takedown Amid Her Dodgy Media Tour.NH

Stephen Colbert shut down Joe Biden‘s former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre as she continued denying that she ever saw the former president’s cognitive decline.

The late-night host was uncharacteristically argumentative with fellow Democrat Jean-Pierre on Monday night as she promoted her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines.

Colbert told Jean-Pierre that Biden was a ‘dramatically different person’ during his notoriously poor performance in a debate with Donald Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election.

‘And at 81 years old, that’s not entirely unexpected. You can imagine why people got so worried,’ Colbert added. 

But Jean-Pierre, who was tasked with defending Biden during his last months in office, continued to deny that he showed any obvious mental decline during his presidency.

‘No one is saying that he didn’t age,’ Jean-Pierre answered. ‘I’m talking about did he have… the mental acuity, was he able to govern? And the man that I saw nearly every day was someone who was engaging, understood policy, and was always putting the American people first.’

Colbert fired back, saying: ‘I don’t think anybody questioned his heart or his policies. But it takes more than that to be the President of the United States.

‘And in a moment of great pressure on stage, we saw someone shock us and worry us, and nothing could assuage that worry. So I don’t think it was necessarily a betrayal of Joe Biden as other people saying, “We don’t think we were shown the Joe Biden that you saw.”‘

Stephen Colbert was uncharacteristically argumentative with fellow Democrat Jean-Pierre on Monday night

Jean-Pierre was tasked with defending Biden during his last months in office

Jean-Pierre replied that every day she saw ‘a really ugly assault on someone who had 50-plus years of experience and who, again, objectively had done a good job as President of the United States.’

‘And it was heartbreaking to see that type of behavior,’ she added.

Colbert insisted that it was not about Biden’s intentions but the debate performance that concerned the public.

‘Everything is downstream of that,’ the host said. 

Jean-Pierre admitted the debate performance was shocking and a disappointment, which Colbert said did not go far enough.

‘Disappointment is such a light term,’ an exasperated Colbert fired back. ‘It was harrowing.’

In the end, Colbert told Jean-Pierre ‘we’re never going to agree on this’ before abruptly ending the segment. 

Jean-Pierre has been on a media tour. When asked tough questions about what she knew about Biden’s cognitive decline, she has repeatedly deflected by using the soundbite ‘I take this question incredibly seriously.’  

On Monday she also appeared on CBS Mornings and shocked hosts as she doubled down on claims she saw no signs of the former president’s declining mental and physical ability during her time in the White House.

Jean-Pierre has been on a media tour where she has repeatedly said she takes questions about Biden’s alleged mental decline ‘incredibly serious’

On Monday she also appeared on CBS Mornings and shocked hosts as she doubled down on claims she saw no signs of the former president’s declining mental and physical ability

During the discussion about the former press secretary’s time under Biden, Gayle King touched on a portion of the book where Jean-Pierre writes she ‘never saw the decline’, prompting the stunned host to ask ‘How?!’

At another point in the interview, Jean-Pierre claimed she did not actually get to speak with the president before his disastrous debate against Donald Trump.

Instead, Jean-Pierre said the president was swarmed by his campaign staffers onboard Air Force One as well as his family – and she did not get to see Biden until after the debate was over.

Even then, though, she has said she was left stunned by the pressure the Democratic party put on her boss to drop out of the race.

When he finally did, Jean-Pierre said she was left ‘enraged and heartbroken.’

She writes in her memoir that the Democratic Party’s abandonment of Biden ultimately led her to become an independent.

‘Now the cloud of unease hovering over me solidified into an idea about how I could possibly do something different. How I could channel my disappointment into some kind of concrete action that would allow me to fight for what I believed in without giving blind loyalty to a party I felt no longer deserved it,’ Jean-Pierre remembered thinking.

‘You know what? I’m going to become an independent,’ she continued. ‘I don’t think I can stomach being in the Democratic Party anymore.’

The memoir has been described as an ‘urgent, timely analysis’ with publisher Hatchette urging Americans to ‘vote their values and maintain individuality within party lines.’

Jean-Pierre’s memoir detailing her decision to part ways with the Democratic Party went on sale this week

But some of her former colleagues have hit out at the former press secretary, whom they accused of being a ‘grifter’ for cashing in with the book.

‘I laughed reading her book announcement that claims she “presents clear arguments and provocative evidence” when our party failed to make a compelling argument for Democrats with her as one of our most visible messenger for three years,’ one former Biden administration official told DailyMail.com.

‘Probably best to purge the party of our most delusional and self-serving personalities,’ the former official added.

Another operative told Politico it was ‘the most grifty thing I’ve seen in a long time, and that’s saying something in Washington.’