Latrine John-Pissoir Pisses Off Lapdog Press By Bumping John Kirby and His "Peace Deal" Briefing to Focus on Her "Goodbye Party"

It's all about ME! Me, the incompetent DEI hire!

Journalists and aides to President Biden are seething over White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre's refusal to let a national security expert discuss the tentative Israel-Hamas cease-fire at her final briefing Wednesday -- deeming the occasion her "goodbye party."

The press secretary's spotlight-stealing forced the nation to wait an extra hour to learn details of the American hostages being released, including their names -- with Jean-Pierre herself providing no new information at her 306th and last briefing and referring reporters to a National Security Council background call that got underway after she left the stage.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan personally asked for his top spokesman, John Kirby -- a former press secretary at both the Pentagon and State Department -- to take the lectern moments after Biden announced the long-sought deal and cast it as a signature achievement of his team.

Sullivan made the request of White House chief of staff Jeff Zients -- but Jean-Pierre refused to allow it, citing her own prearranged plans to celebrate herself, two sources told The Post.

"She basically said it was her goodbye party," one person recounted.

"She kinda marketed it as a celebration of her and her tenure and unfortunately that took precedence over huge breaking news -- and we haven't had this kind of news in this administration for a long time."

Jean-Pierre spent 51 minutes skirting details about the looming end of the war in Gaza, as exasperated journalists waited to learn the names of two US citizens who are set to be released in the first wave of prisoner exchanges as early as Sunday.

"Sources" were harsh on the incompetent DEI hire:

"I thought at the last minute she would just break and say, 'OK, fine, [Kirby] can just come at the top and he can leave, and then I can wax poetic about my time here, and then I don't really even have to answer any questions and be grilled on anything,'" the first source said.

"But she really wanted to make a point that the briefing room was 'hers.' And so that's why she pushed so much, and in the end, she feels like she won, and I guess she kind of did.

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"Not allowing actual news to be delivered from the podium on such an important day for the president and the world for your own ego is disgraceful," a longtime Biden aide told The Post of Jean-Pierre's antics.

"I am not sure there is someone that did more damage to the president's reputation than her -- it is really sad."

One outraged reporter who attended Wednesday's briefing said it was "totally unsurprising behavior from someone who was either incapable of recognizing her own shortcomings or unwilling or unable to put in the work required to overcome them."

How did she keep her job?

This might explain it:

Jean-Pierre has at times threatened to call in powerful allies, such as the Rev. Al Sharpton, to back her up, this person said, explaining: "It gets kind of scary for someone like Jeff, who is a white man, who is like, 'I don't want this kind of smoke.'

"She's thrown some serious temper tantrums over this kind of stuff ... and when Anita left, there was no way Jeff was going to have the negotiating skill to bring both of these people to the table and to muscle Kirby back into that briefing room."

Below, Latrine John-Pissoir thanks everybody as if she's won an award. I wouldn't watch this whole clip, just some of her thank-yous in the beginning and then her tearing up at her own self-praise at the end.

She really thinks she's accomplished something.

posted by Ace at 02:33 PM

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