Democrats are furious with former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s decision to publicly leave the party and announce she’s a political independent while promoting a book.

Jean-Pierre served as former President Biden’s voice to the media for more than two and a half years, and her decision to split from the party at a time when it is particularly troubled has been more than irksome to Democrats.

They not only see it as a form of a betrayal, but as an instance in which one of their own again stuck the knife in the collective party’s back, preventing it from moving forward after a terrible election.

It amounted to another bad day for Democrats, who have had a whole host of those since former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race to President Trump.

“You know how I feel about it. This is how: What the f--- are we doing?" one angry strategist said in an interview that was laced with expletives.

“We see Donald Trump and he's ripping up this country and we're focused on the press secretary of the former president who hasn't been there for six months. It's madness.”

Democrats have been annoyed with Biden, who keeps showing up in public to, in their view, give Trump and Republicans a target to go after.

Now there is........

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