Even Former Top Biden Adviser Is Appalled by Hunter Pardon, Calls It an 'Attack on Our Judicial System'

Most thinking people knew it was coming, but it still sent shockwaves through the political world when Joe Biden finally issued a sweeping pardon for his convicted felon son Hunter after months of promising Americans that he would do no such thing. Democrats and Republicans alike were disturbed that he went back on his word, and it seemed like only fringe MSNBC hosts and die-hard Biden acolytes thought it was a good move.

Now a longtime top adviser to the president, Anita Dunn, who served as a strategist to Biden on his 2020 campaign and a senior adviser in the Biden White House until leaving for the Harris campaign this summer when Joe abandoned his foundering reelection effort, is admitting that it was the act of a man who doesn’t care about our system of justice.

Speaking Wednesday at a New York Times panel at the DealBook Summit 2024, Dunn ripped into the lame-duck president. As a good Democrat, however, she couldn’t bring herself to admit that the whole idea was wrong; she just didn’t like the timing:

"I think that from a Democratic Party perspective, from a Democratic perspective, as we were in the midst of the president-elect rolling out his nominees and in particular in the middle of a Kash Patel weekend, kind of throwing this into the middle of it was exceptionally poor timing, and that the argument is one that I think many observers are concerned about 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,'" she said.

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Dunn, who was part of a small group of top aides that protected Biden and tried to stop pressure on him to drop out, says she does not agree with the way it was handled, the timing of the pardon, or the language of Biden’s statement on the pardon, which she frames as an attack on the judicial system.

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A bad look:

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Former Jill Biden press secretary Michael LaRosa said simply, "YIKES!"

Anita Dunn calls @POTUS pardon "an attack on the judicial system," during @DealBook Summit panel, moderated by @maggieNYT, and says the "story would be different" had he done this later, disagrees with the timing, the way it was done, and the rationale calling it "exceptionally poor timing." "Very clear that the White House was really not part of this process" rather "internally with the family and defense lawyers."

The best moment, however, came when Dunn tried to shamelessly push the ridiculous narrative that the Biden Department of Justice hasn’t become dangerously politicized under the current regime. Trump adviser Jason Miller nuked her over the comment: “Respectfully, Anita did you miss the last four years?”

Gold:

Dunn: “When you look at this Attorney General [Merrick Garland], this Department of Justice…the one thing you can really not say about it is that it operated as a political arm of the White House. I can attest to that.” Miller: “Respectfully, Anita did you miss the last four years? Did you miss the illegal raid on Mar-a-Lago?”

A new era begins January 20, 2025, and hopefully, Trump nominees Kash Patel (FBI), Pam Bondi (Attorney General), Tom Homan (Border Czar), Marco Rubio (Secretary of State), Pete Hegseth (Department of Defense) and others can weed out the rot that has infected D.C. under the watch of our octogenarian president.

When even a highly partisan Biden enabler like Anita Dunn sees there’s a problem, you know it’s real.