WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.”
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“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.
Pardoning the members of the Biden crime family. No one is above the law except for the Biden family.
Let me remind you, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! No white Republican male, that is
These “pardons” should be dissolved – he should not be able to say that they are innocent but also pardoned of any crimes in the same sentence. Its not a get-out-of-of-jail-free card. All these people should now be investigated and charged.
What a lowlife scum.
Oif Dem Ganif Brent Der Hital !
Now go after the crook himself
what an odd thing to do! if they haven’t done anything wrong, what’s the point of a get-out-of-jail-free card? and how can a presidential pardon be “proactive”? (if that’s the correct term for the opposite of “retroactive”?) in fact, it only calls attention to the fact that they may NEED to be pardoned.