Peter Doocy reacts to former jousting partner KJP’s book announcement

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy expressed doubt on Thursday that former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre can “square” her years-long lies about former President Joe Biden in response to her new book deal.

Jean-Pierre announced the release of her book, “Independent,” set to be published in October and stated that she is leaving the Democrat Party over its “betrayal” to Biden. As she tries to make a comeback in the public eye, Doocy told “Fox & Friends” that she likely cannot escape her long track record of lying to the press and the American people.

“The thing about this book is that she, towards the end, before Biden dropped out [and] after Biden dropped out, she would say that legitimate questions were misinformation and I told her once, ‘you can’t just call something that you don’t like misinformation,’” Doocy said. “And so I don’t know how she’s going to square being the public face of saying things that were not true about the president and about policies. I don’t know how she’s just going to come out and say, ‘you know what? Just because I swore on camera that things were okay, actually here’s what was really going on.’”

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Doocy repeatedly confronted Jean-Pierre on Biden’s cognitive ability while the White House still discredited any concerns about his physical and mental health. In Sept. 2023, Doocy asked the then-press secretary to explain why Biden repeated a story “word for word” just minutes after already telling it, which led Jean-Pierre to claim that he was simply making it “very clear” why he ran for president.

Biden confused French President Emmanuel Macron with former President François Mitterrand, who died from prostate cancer in 1996, during a campaign event in February 2024. Doocy then raised concerns during a Feb. 6, 2024, briefing about Biden’s mental health and memory following that incident, prompting a visibly exasperated Jean-Pierre to say that she would not “go down that rabbit hole” with him.

Following Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June, Doocy asked why Biden had stated that his brain is deteriorating. After Jean-Pierre said Biden “was joking,” Doocy asked whether Biden’s medical team had refused to test him for Parkinson’s, dementia or any other mental health disorder that would interfere in his job as president during a July 9 briefing.

“Are you guys just not, since February, testing President Biden for Parkinson’s or dementia, because if he gets a bad result, it’s all over that day,” Doocy said.

“Again, as I’ve said many times before, the president has had a full-some, comprehensive — what we said, what we shared with you was comprehensive but he has had a full physical,” Jean-Pierre said. “We’ve shown the results of those physicals these past three years … With all due respect, you’re not a doctor, I’m not a doctor. It’s the president’s medical unit that make a decision on what the president needs.”

In September 2023, Doocy had further pointed out that Biden’s staff always escorted him out of public events, wrote notecards for him during press conferences and shielded him from the press. After asking why Biden’s staff treated him “like a baby,” Jean-Pierre claimed that Doocy’s suspicions were “ridiculous.”

Jean-Pierre repeatedly assured reporters that Biden was as sharp and healthy as ever, and accused any footage that showed him in a confused state of being a “cheap fake.” She attempted to discredit any concerns even after his disastrous debate by repeatedly stating that Biden simply had a “bad night,” and claimed that there was no coverup by the White House to hide the then-president’s declining health.

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