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.

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.”

My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,’

President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W.

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 him."

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

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

By Doina Chiacu, Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons on Monday for several of his immediate family members and people his successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation,

President Biden previously declared that he would not issue preemptive pardons for his allies during a December 2020 interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.