Biden pardons family members minutes before leaving office

President Joe Biden pardoned eight individuals, including five of his own family members, in his final minutes in office and just before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

“I am…

President Joe Biden pardoned eight individuals, including five of his own family members, in his final minutes in office and just before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

“I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden,” Biden said in a statement from the White House, citing “unrelenting attacks and threats” he says his family has faced.

The outgoing president also pardoned Gerald G. Lundergan, Ernest William Cromartie and Leonard Peltier.