President Joe Biden issued pardons to several close family members Monday in the final minutes of his presidency.

Biden issued blanket pardons for his brother James and his wife, Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, and his brother Francis.

President Joe Biden pardoned his brother James and other relatives for unspecified crimes, to protect them from Trump administration investigations.

Minutes before leaving the presidency, Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying Monday that his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.”

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned five members of his family, saying he wanted to prevent them from being targeted by "baseless and politically motivated investigations." Those pardoned are his two brothers James and Francis.

Biden announced the pardons in a last batch of clemency decisions just before Donald Trump took the oath of office.

Donald Trump could still have his political enemies prosecuted, despite President Joe Biden's preemptive pardons of the January 6 committee and other Trump foes, a legal expert has told Newsweek. New York attorney Colleen Kerwick said that pro-Trump officials could sidestep the pardons and still indict Trump's enemies in state court.