Biden pardoned members of his family minutes before Trump's inauguration as US President

Minutes before Donald Trump's inauguration as US President, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons for his brothers, James and Frank, his sister, Valerie, and their spouses. "My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by desire to hurt me—the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end," Biden said.