BIDEN ISSUES LAST MINUTE PARDONS FOR FAMILY MEMBERS, BROTHER, IN-LAWS, SISTER

Biden issues last-minute pardons for family members----published at 11:53

Bernd Debusmann Jr
Reporting from the White House

As we just reported earlier, with just minutes to go in his administration, Joe Biden has issued additional pre-emptive pardons for other members of his own family who he says have been "subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me".

"Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end," Biden said in a statement.  The pardons extend to his brother James and his wife Sara Jones, the president's younger sister Valerie, her husband John Owens and Francis, another brother. MORE AT https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce8jy9j91y5t?post=asset%3A80ca651e-720b-430f-a6b8-2983e539710b#post