{"id":229090,"date":"2025-01-20T17:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2025\/01\/20\/outgoing-us-president-joe-biden-issues-pre-emptive-pardons-for-family-members\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T17:02:50","slug":"outgoing-us-president-joe-biden-issues-pre-emptive-pardons-for-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/2025\/01\/20\/outgoing-us-president-joe-biden-issues-pre-emptive-pardons-for-family-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing US President Joe Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for family members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/iol-prod.appspot.com\/image\/34fb1014628f4aa0b822cacde82ab1d6b0d482c3\/1024&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x81&amp;resize=1024x576\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"><\/p>\n<p>Outgoing US President Joe Biden issued last-minute pre-emptive pardons on Monday for several of his close family members.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued just minutes before he was to leave office, Biden announced pre-emptive pardons for his brother James Biden, James&#8217;s wife Sara Jones Biden, his sister Valerie Biden Owens, Valerie&#8217;s husband John Owens, and his brother Francis Biden.<\/p>\n<p>* This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing US President Joe Biden issued last-minute pre-emptive pardons on Monday for several of his close family members. 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