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Karine Jean-Pierre leaves reporters fuming as she blocks hostage-deal expert from final WH briefing
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1:29Now PlayingJournalists 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.
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