Biden’s ex-adviser publicly slams ‘timing, argument and rationale’ of Hunter’s pardon
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Biden’s ex-adviser publicly slams ‘timing, argument and rationale’ of Hunter’s pardon

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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy President Joe Biden’s former senior adviser has publicly slammed the “timing, the argument,” and the “rationale” behind the decision to pardon his son Hunter. “I absolutely think that Hunter deserves a pardon here but I disagree on the timing, the argument and sort of the rationale,” she said at The New York Times annual DealBook Summit last Wednesday. open image in gallery Former longtime Biden aide, Anita Dunn, slammed the timing of the pardon for Hunter “Had this pardon been done at the end of the term, in the context of compassion, the way many pardons will be done, I am sure, and many commutations will be done, I think would have been a different story,” she said. “A president who ran to restore the rule of law, who has upheld the rule of law, who has really defended the rule of law kind of saying, ‘Well, maybe not right now.’” open image in gallery President Joe Biden announced he was pardoning his son earlier this month in a move that was criticized by Democrats and Republicans Ultimately, Biden’s longtime aide said she “absolutely agreed” with the decision, but not with “the way it was done.” “I don’t agree with the timing and I don’t agree, frankly, with the attack on our judicial system,” Dunn added.

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