President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his household has been “subjected to fixed assaults and threats, motivated solely by a want to harm me — the worst form of partisan politics.”
“Unfortunately I’ve no purpose to imagine these assaults will cease,” he mentioned. He issued a collection of pardons and commutations within the moments earlier than leaving workplace, together with for aides and allies who have been focused by Donald Trump. No one has been charged with any crime.
Last month he pardoned his son Hunter for tax and gun crimes.
Biden issued basic pardons for his brother James and his spouse Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, and his brother Francis.
“The granting of those pardons shouldn’t be construed as an acknowledgment of getting dedicated a wrongdoing, nor ought to the acceptance be misconstrued as an request for forgiveness for any crime,” he mentioned in an announcement.
The pardon got here as Biden and others have been on the U.S. Capitol to look at Trump’s inauguration.
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