Outgoing US President Joe Biden preemptively pardoned five members of his family minutes before ceding power to Donald Trump on Monday, saying he wanted 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 to me — the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to think that these attacks will stop,” the outgoing Democratic president, 82, explained in a statement.
-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.
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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