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Friday, February 28, 2025

Just minutes before he leaves office, Biden pardons his siblings and their spouses

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38 days ago
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President Joe Biden, right, and first lady Jill Biden walk to greet President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump upon arriving at the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden, right, and first lady Jill Biden walk to greet President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump upon arriving at the White House, Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Evan Vucci

Pres­i­dent Joe Biden on Mon­day par­doned his sib­lings and their spous­es, say­ing 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. He is­sued a slew of par­dons and com­mu­ta­tions in the mo­ments be­fore leav­ing of­fice, in­clud­ing for aides and al­lies that have been tar­get­ed by Don­ald Trump. None have been charged with any crimes.

Last month, he par­doned his son, Hunter for tax and gun crimes.

Biden is­sued blan­ket par­dons for his broth­er James and his wife, Sara, his sis­ter Va­lerie and her hus­band, John Owens, and his broth­er Fran­cis.

“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,” he said in a state­ment.

The par­dons came as Biden and oth­ers stood at the U.S. Capi­tol to see Trump in­au­gu­rat­ed.

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