Among those pardoned were Biden's siblings and their spouses In the waning moments of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for his loved ones. “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats,

The end of Joe Biden’s presidency on Monday was extraordinary in many ways. Among them, nothing was more extraordinary than his use of the president’s power to grant pardons and reprieves. Most of the clemencies Biden had granted to that point were standard in their form,

The outgoing president acted to short-circuit incoming President Trump’s stated plans to exact retribution from perceived enemies.