Former Jill Biden press secretary reveals Joe Biden's bubble was 'full of bullies'

Jill Biden's former press secretary Michael LaRosa on Monday revealed that former President Joe Biden's White House was full of "mean girls" and bullies, who did not believe Kamala Harris could replace their boss and defeat President Donald Trump.

LaRosa's scathing Fox News' op-ed comes the day before Harris' memoir "107 Days" is set to be released, which encompasses her tenure as the Democratic Party's presidential nominee and an inside look at the actions that led to her short run.

The former press secretary, who worked for Jill Biden from 2021 through July 2022, never named specific people in his piece for the conservative outlet, but remained favorable toward his former boss and her husband. He also praised Harris for "finally saying the quiet part out loud."

"The Biden White House was filled with its share of cartoonist characters out of a badly cast high school version of 'West Side Story,'" LaRosa wrote. "Inside the White House, the Regina Georges of Biden’s circle ruled like mean girls and policed loyalty. 

"Staff weren’t serving a president and first lady — they were serving a cult," he continued. "You never knew when Regina was in charge or when the Bidens were. It was all blurred. Joe and Jill Biden were warm, decent, empathetic. But they enabled some of the nastiest and most mean-spirted people I’ve ever encountered in politics. That contradiction defines the Biden era."

LaRosa also compared Biden's influence on America to Trump's, stating that even though Biden defeated Trump in 2020, he failed to inspire Americans in the way that the Republican did.

"Biden won the most votes of anyone for president in our country’s history," he wrote. "But he never won the hearts and minds of the American people, and especially not of his own party ... There was no pragmatic truth-teller, because no one admitted that we weren’t a movement. 

"We swaggered like we’d won President Barack Obama’s mandate or his congressional majorities. We hadn’t. We lost 13 Democratic House seats on our way in," he continued. "From the moment Biden won the nomination, no one ever wanted to admit the obvious: Democrats felt stuck with us, not inspired by us."

The Democrat additionally praised Harris for finally speaking about the same experience he had with Biden's "bullies," and not bending when former allies trashed her. 

“I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me,” Harris wrote in the book. “One narrative that took a stubborn hold was that I had a ‘chaotic’ office and unusually high staff turnover during my first year. 

"Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed,” she continued. “None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands."

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.