Outgoing President Joe Biden had one last act up his sleeve Monday morning, issuing a last spherical of pardons … for extra members of the family.
Simply minutes earlier than President-elect Donald Trump was sworn in because the forty seventh President of the US, the White Home issued a press release declaring the pardons of Biden’s two brothers, his sister and different members of the family — to guard them from politically motivated prosecutions after he leaves workplace, the assertion stated.
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JB caught fairly a little bit of flak for pardoning his son Hunter Biden a couple of weeks in the past, on gun possession and tax expenses, stating the same motivation — that his son was being unfairly focused as a result of his father’s political standing.
In Monday’s last-minute pardon, he prolonged the safety to his brother James Biden, James’ spouse Sarah Biden, Joe’s sister Valerie Biden Owens, her husband John T. Owens and Joe’s youthful brother Francis W. Biden.
The White Home assertion reads … “My household has been subjected to unrelenting assaults and threats, motivated solely by a need to harm me—the worst sort of partisan politics. Sadly, I’ve no purpose to imagine these assaults will finish.”
In the identical order, Biden additionally commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier to serve house confinement, and pardoned two different males.
Earlier Monday, Biden issued blanket pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and members of Congress who served on the committee that investigated the January 6, 2021 assault on the Capitol, together with former Rep. Liz Cheney.
