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.

Despite the unpopularity of his decision, the president’s approval rating has not shifted meaningfully since before his party lost the White House to Trump.

U.S. President Joe Biden changed his mind about pardoning his son Hunter because "circumstances have changed," the White House said on Friday.

The White House on Monday defended President Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden after insisting for more than a year that he wouldn’t do so. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told

The White House said on Monday that President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter in part because of concern his political opponents would continue to persecute the younger Biden in the future, as a growing chorus of Democrats and Republicans criticized his decision.

Only about two in ten Americans support President Joe Biden’s decision to issue a blanket pardon for his son, Hunter,

President Joe Biden ’s pardon of his son has an approval rating of only 22% according to a poll. The Associated Press -NORC Center for Public Affairs Research surveyed 1,251 adults in the days since the president announced he was pardoning his son Hunter from the federal gun and tax fraud convictions,