Karine Jean-Pierre ripped over 'firing squad' recap of Biden's exit from race: 'Still doesn't understand'

"I had never seen anything like it before. I had never seen a party do that in the way that they did, and it was hurtful and sad to see that happening," Jean-Pierre added. "A firing squad around a person who I believe was a true patriot, a person who I believe did everything that he can for this country. A person who I believe, as I mentioned before, has done more in one term than most presidents had done in two terms, historical things, and I was shocked by what I was seeing."

Jean-Pierre's analysis, the first in-depth comments she has made on Biden's exit from the race since she left the White House, drew immediate pushback from conservatives on social media. 

Jean-Pierre said during her Harvard appearance that she has not been focused on watching the news since she left the White House. 

"I have not watched the news," she said. "I have really tried to focus on self-care. I've really tried to focus on my daughter. I have a 10-year-old. And I have done . . . it's, I think the best way to say this is, I have deprogrammed myself so that I could be a civilian again. I used to wake up at 4:30 in the morning. Like, that was my schedule every day for four years. And I thought that when I stepped away from the lectern and the podium that I would have this, like, adrenaline, like, I would need to feed my, like, 'Aaah, I need to be doing something!'"

Fox News Digital's Alexander Hall contributed to this report