One of President Joe Biden’s former top communications advisers ravaged the president’s messaging rollout strategy around his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, lambasting the situation as “exceptionally poor timing” in a major public rebuke of her former boss.

I am asking for the same empathy and care to allow me to benefit from my pardon and to live in safety and dignity,” Paul Pierrilus said from Haiti.

"I absolutely think that Hunter deserves a pardon here, but I disagreed on the timing, the argument and sort of the rationale," Anita Dunn said.