BREAKING: Joe Biden Pardons Family Members Right Before Leaving Office!

In his final moments before leaving office, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for his family members.

Biden pardoned his brothers James and Frank, his sister Valerie, and their spouses.

BREAKING: Biden pardons his family. pic.twitter.com/efniD6TOds

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) January 20, 2025

From the Associated Press:

Minutes before leaving the presidency, Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.”

“Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said as his presidential term was ending.

The family pardons were the surprise finale in a series of unprecedented presidential actions by the Democrat, who has been known as an intuitionalist during his half-century in politics. Biden also pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and allies who have been targeted by Republican President Donald Trump. He was sworn in Monday.

It was a remarkable use of Biden’s presidential power: None of the above has been charged with any crime, and the move was designed to guard against possible retribution by Trump.

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“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden said in a statement.

Biden just pardoned his family too.

Wow. pic.twitter.com/cSl2DRhgEq

— Gunther Eagleman (@GuntherEagleman) January 20, 2025

A closer look:

Per CNBC:

He also pardoned Gerald Lundergan, the former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party, and former South Carolina Councilman Ernest Cromartie. The departing president also commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.

Biden in early December issued a pardon for his son Hunter Biden, reversing his prior insistence that would not do so.

Hunter was convicted last year in a federal criminal gun trial, and he had pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case related to tax crimes.

James Biden was interviewed last year by the House Oversight and Judiciary committees as part of their impeachment probe of Joe Biden.

“Jim and Sara Biden did not seek this pardon because they have never committed any crimes. But for the reasons the President described, they have accepted it,” said Paul Fishman, an attorney for James and Sara Biden, in a statement.

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In Monday’s press release, Biden said, “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”

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