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Biden Pardons 5 Members of His Family in Final Minutes in Office
The New York Times ^ | Jan. 20, 2025 | Updated 12:23 p.m. ET | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 01/20/2025 10:40:14 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Mr. Biden emphasized that he did not believe his family did anything wrong, but he feared political attacks by Donald J. Trump.

President Biden pardoned five members of his family in his last minutes in office, saying in a statement that he did so not because they did anything wrong but because he feared political attacks from incoming President Donald J. Trump.

“My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” he said in his last statement as president. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.”

Mr. Biden’s action pardoned James B. Biden, his brother; Sara Jones Biden, James’s wife; Valerie Biden Owens, Mr. Biden’s sister; John T. Owens, Ms. Owens’s husband; and Francis W. Biden, Mr. Biden’s brother.

The White House announced the pardons with less than 20 minutes left in Mr. Biden’s presidency, after he had already walked into the Capitol Rotunda to witness the swearing-in of Mr. Trump before leaving the Capitol for the last time as president.

The pardons were a remarkable coda to Mr. Biden’s 50-year political career, underscoring the mistrust and anger that the president feels about Mr. Trump, the man who preceded and will succeed him in office.

Mr. Biden had repeatedly warned that Mr. Trump was a threat to democracy in America. But he also said that he believed in the rule of law, and was confident in the stability of the institutions of law enforcement. The pardons — like one that he did earlier for his son, Hunter Biden, threatened to challenge that assertion.

In his statement, Mr. Biden explained his action.

“I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately...

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To: Cowgirl of Justice
He didn’t pardon himself.......door opened.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that once people are granted pardons, they can be compelled to testify because they face no legal risk for the crimes they are testifying about. Pardoning his family may make them his most hostile witnesses because they would face possible perjury charges if they provide false testimony. They could be put in the spot where later they will have to say "Sorry, Joe but I didn't have any other option. Should have pardoned yourself on the way out."

41 posted on 01/20/2025 11:19:45 AM PST by CommerceComet (Re-elect Donald Trump - AGAIN)
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To: OakOak
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42 posted on 01/20/2025 11:20:01 AM PST by AnthonySoprano (She hails from the Slave Masters - A family of Sugar Plantation Oligarchs)
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To: omni-scientist

Force the crooks to testify and catch a lot of the little fish feeding in the waters. That is what the DOJ did to Trump’s associates.


43 posted on 01/20/2025 11:22:12 AM PST by carcraft (Pray for our Country )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He didn’t pardon Jill Biden?


44 posted on 01/20/2025 11:23:26 AM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Did Biden ever pardon Mayorkas, Garland or Jack Smith???


45 posted on 01/20/2025 11:27:20 AM PST by vivenne (7Come to think of it. )
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To: butlerweave

<>but Biden is not Mentally fit<>

True, but the accused needn’t testify against themselves.

Would his lawyers actually move to show he was a vegetable before 2020?


46 posted on 01/20/2025 11:27:38 AM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“The pardons were a remarkable coda”

That’s one way to put it.


47 posted on 01/20/2025 11:31:25 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Since he pardoned his whole family, they can’t be coerced into testifying against him, so who else is there that can? Nobody I can think of.


48 posted on 01/20/2025 11:37:53 AM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

That leaves lots of the grandchildren exposed if it is accurate. If that is the case it’s bad news for the Biden Crime family.


49 posted on 01/20/2025 11:44:57 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Someone should tell Mike Shear of The Spew Barf Slimes that the Biden family are thieving criminals.
50 posted on 01/20/2025 11:54:24 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: AnthonySoprano

The enemy’s within are the most dangerous.


51 posted on 01/20/2025 12:00:14 PM PST by Vaduz
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can you plead the 5th after receiving a pardon?

Will the pardon cover future perjury?


52 posted on 01/20/2025 12:04:36 PM PST by dangerdoc
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To: dangerdoc

No and No


53 posted on 01/20/2025 12:06:36 PM PST by jpp113
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To: telescope115

Actually, I’d think that since his family has been pardoned, and he didn’t pardon himself, they could charge him with sedition by selling US out to Ukraine and China and taking bribes from many others. The family members could be compelled to testify as they no longer have a right to take the 5th amendment as they can not be charged with a crime. Then when they lie in their testimony that may be able to be charged with perjury under oath that is unless Biden pardoned them for ANY crime they may commit in the future. I’m shocked he didn’t pardon himself. But then he’s too senile to stand trial so there is that !!!


54 posted on 01/20/2025 1:04:25 PM PST by DrHFrog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“Pardons impute guilt, accepting them confesses guilt!”

Burdick v. United States, 236 U.S. 79 (1915) -

55 posted on 01/20/2025 3:53:17 PM PST by Grampa Dave (If history teaches us anything: It's that history rarely teaches anything! (outofsalt))
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