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

As for Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons, they did not reek any less for being utterly predictable. The former president set the works in motion last month with the shameful pardon of his son. Hunter Biden had been the point man in the decades-long Biden family business of selling access to his father and his political influence to agents of corrupt and anti-American foreign regimes,

Outgoing President Joe Biden is under fire for his final act before leaving the White House on Monday. With just minutes left of his presidency, Biden issued preemptive pardons to his siblings and their spouses just before President Donald Trump took office on Monday.

Joe Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses on his way out of the White House on Monday -- the surprise finale in a series of unprecedented presidential actions by the Democrat, who has been known as an intuitionalist during his half-century in politics.