The relatives who were granted clemency in the final minutes of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidency had not been charged with wrongdoing, but some had drawn scrutiny.

President Biden announced pardons for members of his family in the last minutes of his presidency, a shocking development as President-elect Trump’s inauguration is already underway. The blanket

In his last day as president, Joe Biden pardoned five members of his extended family, including his two brothers, James Biden and Francis Biden, and his sister Valerie Biden Owens. He also issued pardons to former White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci,

Now-former President Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue sweeping pardons protecting his family from any future prosecution.

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.”

Trump vowed to press the Justice Department to prosecute people he considered to be part of a political opposition.

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

The move comes after Biden controversially pardoned his son Hunter—who was previously charged with tax and gun crimes—and gave preemptive pardons to Trump foes like Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and members of the House Jan.