Just minutes before he was set to leave office, Joe Biden announced blanket pardons for all the members of his family allegedly involved in the clan’s influence peddling operation. Biden announced the stunning move as President Trump’s inauguration was already underway.
The pardons “were granted to his brother, James Biden; Sara Jones Biden, his sister-in-law; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; John T. Owens, his brother-in-law; and Francis Biden, Biden’s other brother,” the Hill reported.
“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 said in a statement. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”
Again, Biden maintained that the pardons do not acknowledge any wrongdoing, and acceptance of them should not be viewed as an admission of guilt.
And like the earlier pardons of General Mark A. Milley and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, they were backdated to Jan. 1, 2014.
The pardon for the Biden family members came after a number testified before the House Oversight Committee as it investigated both President Biden and son Hunter Biden in a probe they said was dedicated to influence peddling.
While President Biden pardoned Hunter Biden in December, he had not yet done so for other family members, risking continued congressional oversight.
Just last week, House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) called on the incoming attorney general to bring contempt of Congress charges against James Biden for making “false statements” during the impeachment inquiry.
“Though President Biden’s saccharine (and wholly ironic) rantings of political persecution and weaponized prosecution of Hunter Biden are specious, they are inapplicable to the non-prosecution of his brother, James Biden, who has lied to the United States Congress and has faced no accountability to date,” Comer wrote in a letter last week in a letter to Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Justice.
“I write to encourage the Department under your leadership to hold James Biden accountable for lying to Congress to protect his brother, the soon-to-be-former President Biden. No one should be above the law, regardless of his last name.”
Joe Biden on Monday made sure his brother and other members of the Biden clan will never be held accountable for any of their alleged crimes.
