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A few minutes before handing over the keys to the White House to Donald Trump this Monday, Joe Biden decided to preemptively pardon five members of his family. The person concerned had already made this highly contested decision last December regarding his son Hunter, convicted in two separate cases of illegal possession of a firearm and tax evasion.
Outgoing US President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned five members of his family a few minutes before ceding power to Donald Trump on Monday, January 20, claiming to want to protect them from “unfounded and politically motivated investigations”.
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“My family has been targeted with relentless attacks and threats, motivated only by the desire to get at me – the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to think that these attacks will stop,” explained the outgoing Democratic president, 82, in a press release. They are his brother James Biden, his sister Valerie Biden Owens, their respective spouses, Sara Jones Biden and John Owens, as well as his brother, Francis Biden.
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Joe Biden has already on December 1, in a highly criticized decision, granted a very large pardon to his son Hunter, one of the favorite targets of the American hard right, who had been found guilty in two separate cases of illegal possession of a firearm. fire and tax fraud.
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