by Charlotte Hazard
President Joe Biden pardons brother Jim Biden and other family members on Monday just before his time in office expired.
“My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” Biden wrote in a statement. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”
Biden also issued pardons for his sister-in-law Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, and his brother Francis.
“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden’s statement continued.
Biden’s family has been subject to investigations from House Republicans for overseas business deals in Ukraine. Last month, Biden pardoned his son Hunter for gun and tax crimes.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., blasted Biden following the pardons.
“President Biden’s preemptive pardons for the Biden Crime Family serve as a confession of their corruption as they sold out the American people to enrich themselves,” Comer said in a statement. “Our investigation revealed that at least ten members of the Biden Crime Family and their associates raked in over $30 million by selling Joe Biden’s influence to corrupt foreign entities and individuals in China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, and Kazakhstan.”
Biden also granted clemency to Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who murdered FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams in 1975. He was sentenced to life in prison
Human rights organizations argued that Peltier was wrongly convicted, according to reports.
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Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.
