President Joe Biden has pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics”.
“Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said.
The pardons, announced just minutes before Mr Biden left office, capped a slew of unprecedented presidential action by the Democrat.
Mr Biden also pardoned Dr Anthony Fauci, retired general Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the January 6 attack on the Capitol and allies who have been targeted by Republican Donald Trump.
It was a…