WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his household had been “subjected to unrelenting assaults and threats, motivated solely by a want to harm me — the worst type of partisan politics.”
“Sadly, I’ve no purpose to consider these assaults will finish,” he stated. He issued a slew of pardons and commutations within the moments earlier than leaving workplace, together with for aides and allies which were focused by Donald Trump. None have been charged with any crimes.
Final month, he pardoned his son, Hunter for tax and gun crimes.
Biden issued blanket pardons for his brother James and his spouse, Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, and his brother Francis.
“The issuance of those pardons shouldn’t be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor ought to acceptance be misconstrued as an request for forgiveness for any offense,” he stated in a press release.
The pardons got here as Biden and others stood on the U.S. Capitol to see Trump inaugurated.
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