Ana Navarro, a co-host on ABC’s The View, said Monday that she once wrote President Joe Biden a note saying she hoped he would pardon his son, Hunter.

“I actually talked to Joe Biden about this when he was on the show,” Navarro told co-host Sunny Hostin. “I told him I hoped he pardoned Hunter.”

“You did,” Hostin said. “I remember.”

Navarro continued: “I went to speak at the Biden Institute in Delaware, like, a month later, and we talked on the phone, and I told him I hoped he pardoned Hunter. I left him a handwritten note at his desk at the University of Delaware and told him I hoped he pardoned Hunter.”

President Joe Biden and son Hunter Biden walk in downtown Nantucket Mass., Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. “The View” co-host Ana Navarro said she wrote a note to Joe Biden saying she hoped he would pardon… More Jose Luis Magana/AP

Navarro spoke at the Biden Institute at the end of October, where she discussed Latino voters and their impact on the U.S. election.

Navarro, a longtime and fervent critic of President-elect Donald Trump, expressed sympathy for Biden on The View Monday.

“So many of the people who committed this crime do not get prosecuted,” she said. “Imagine the guilt that Joe Biden has to live with thinking that his son, his only surviving son, is getting prosecuted because he is his son.”

Biden sent the media and political sphere into a frenzy when he announced Sunday evening that he had issued a full and unconditional pardon to Hunter Biden. The younger Biden was convicted earlier this year of illegally obtaining a firearm and failure to pay over $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.

The pardon also covers any “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son came before Hunter Biden was set to be sentenced in the tax and gun-related cases this month. In issuing the executive clemency grant, the president also scuttled his earlier pledge not to pardon his son.

Biden addressed the reversal in his statement announcing the pardon on Sunday, writing, “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”

The president’s decision drew sharp backlash from Trump and others in his orbit, as well as from some in Biden’s party.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?” Trump wrote on Truth Social, referring to those who have been convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Democratic Colorado Governor Jared Polis also condemned the pardon, writing on X, “While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country.”

“I respect President Biden, but I think he got this one wrong,” Democratic Arizona Representative Greg Stanton wrote.

Navarro, for her part, celebrated the move when the news broke.

“Good for @JoeBiden,” she wrote on X, followed by three emojis of clapping hands. “America elected a convicted felon. That convicted felon pardoned his son-in-law’s father and appointed him Ambassador to France. If you support that, I don’t want to hear jack-s*** about Biden pardoning his son.”

Navarro was referring to Jared Kushner’s father, Charles, who was convicted in the early 2000s of tax crimes, witness tampering, and making illegal campaign contributions. Trump pardoned Charles Kushner in December 2020 and nominated him over the weekend to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to France.