President Joe Biden pardoned his family members, including his businessman brother James and political adviser sister Valerie, in his final moments in office before Donald Trump returned to power.
Biden justified his preemptive pardons, contending his “family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics” and adding, “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”
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The last-minute action adds to an earlier sweeping pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
“I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics,” Joe Biden wrote in a statement roughly 20 minutes before the end of his presidency. “But baseless…
