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

Joe Biden's presidency and half a century of public service come to an end as Donald Trump begins second term.

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,