Outgoing US President Joe Biden has used his ultimate hours in the White House to factor several preemptive pardons – adding to members of his own family.

In his final act in office, Mr. Biden issued general forgives to five members of his relative circle due to what he called the “relentless attacks” of Donald Trump and his allies.

“Unfortunately, I have no explanation why believe that these attacks will end,” he said in a grace granted to his brother James and his wife Sara, his sister Valérie and her husband, John Owensarray and her brother Francis.

And he added: “The delivery of these pardons does not deserve to be interpreted as an admission of guilt for any crime. “

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Separately, last month, Mr. Biden forgave his son, Hunter, after he condemned for arms fees and begged him to blame the federal tax evasion.

Previously, in his last hours in office, Biden also granted several preventive pardons in an effort to “take revenge” of the officials of the elected president.

He said those being issued pardons had been “subjected to ongoing threats and intimidation for faithfully discharging their duties” and in some cases threatened with criminal prosecutions.

This comes after Trump warned against an “enemies list” made up of others who crossed him politically or tried to hold him guilty for what prosecutors this week called a pastless attempt to confront the 2020 election. .

Those issued a pardon include Dr Anthony Fauci, who helped coordinate the US response to COVID but raised the ire of Mr Trump when he refused to back his unfounded claims about the virus.

The retired general Mark Mark, who in the past described the president chose a fascist and detailed his behavior around the insurrection in 2021, also won a forgiveness.

“I can’t in smart do anything,” Mr. Biden said Monday.

“Unfounded and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, protection, and monetary security of victims and their families. “

Trump responded to the pardons in a text message to Sky News’ US network NBC News, calling the resolution “shameful” and claiming, without any evidence, that many of those pardoned were “guilty of primary crimes. “

Dr Fauci told US broadcaster ABC that he “truly appreciates” the pardon from Mr Biden.

“I have not committed any crime. . . and there is no conceivable explanation why for the sampling or the risk of a criminal investigation or prosecution,” he said.

General Milley added: “I do not wish to spend the remaining time that the Lord grants me to combat those who unjustly seek revenge for perceived wrongs.

“I don’t need to put my family, friends and those that I have served through the resulting distraction, expenses and anxiety. “

‘Not breaking the law, but upholding it’

Also pardoned were members of the House Select Committee, which investigated the Jan. 6 riot, and police officers who testified before that committee.

Committee members are Senator Adam Schiff, former Representatives Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Elaine Luria, Stephanie Murphy, Pete Aguilar, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Raskin and Bennie Thompson.

Heads of the committee, Ms Cheney and Mr Thompson, said the pardons from Mr Biden are “not for breaking the law but for upholding it”.

The police officers who testified before the committee included Harry Dunn, Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges, NBC reported.

The committee’s final report found that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to nullify the legal effects of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to save his supporters from attacking the Capitol.

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Biden set the presidential record for maximum pardons and individual commutations granted.

He announced on Friday that he would make sentences of almost another 2,500 people discovered the fault of non -violent drugs similar to drugs.

These are the majority of 37 other people recently sentenced to death whose sentences have been changed to life imprisonment.