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

Online users shared this untrue rumor about the pair in the days before U.S. President Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed former President Biden's decision to issue last-second pardons of his family on Tuesday, arguing it hurts his legacy.

Hunter Biden received a “full and unconditional” pardon from his dad, President Joe Biden in December. But this gesture of love, one of President Joe Biden’s final acts while in office, came before Special Counsel Davis Weiss released the final report on his investigation into the president’s son.

It was just moments before Joe Biden's presidential term ended when he announced pardons for his siblings and their spouses.

The Justice Department special counsel whose six-year case into Hunter Biden was short-circuited last month by the unconditional pardon President Joe Biden granted to his son, criticized the outgoing president in his final report Monday.

Joe Biden pardoned members of his family in an attempt to avoid prosecution for corruption, exposing the corruption of Biden Inc. and the willingness of the media to deny or deflect the scandal.

President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.

Biden did not pardon himself — and it's unclear if he could be prosecuted at all under the Supreme Court's recently created doctrine of presidential immunity — but Trump associates are still speaking of the "Biden crime family" in statements to the press.

President Biden's last-minute preemptive pardons of Dr. Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney and Gen. Mark Milley were widely panned on social media on Monday.