With only 15 minutes to go as president, Joe Biden snatched infamy from the jaws of obscurity.

With record-low polling and widely viewed as a “failed” president, Biden completed his one-man race to the bottom of ethics by issuing preemptive pardons to members of his own family. 

The pardons were timed to guarantee that the media would not focus on yet another unethical act by this president. He need not have worried. For four years, the media worked tirelessly to deny or deflect the corruption scandal surrounding the Biden family.  

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his family on his way out the White House door was a disappointing abuse of his presidential prerogative. His decision to issue preemptive pardons to members of the Jan. 6 committee, as well as Anthony Fauci and retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, was unfortunate but defensible.

In his final days in office, President Joe Biden decided to pardon the innocent — people who committed no known crimes — including former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., former U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley and others.

President Joe Biden has sparked outrage after commuting the sentence of Leonard Peltier in a last-minute move before leaving office Monday.

Peltier, 80, has spent nearly 50 years in prison after being convicted of the murder of two FBI agents on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation in 1975. He also escaped from federal prison in 1979 while serving his sentence for the two murders and had five years tacked onto his sentence.

Peltier, a prominent Native American activist before his arrest, has always proclaimed his innocence in the crime.

President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.”

“Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said. He issued a slew of pardons and commutations in the moments before leaving office, including for aides and allies that have been targeted by Donald Trump. None have been charged with any crimes.

Joe Biden in the final minutes of his presidency on Monday issued pardons to five more members of his family—his brother James and wife Sarah, his younger sister Valerie Biden Owens and husband John T. Owens, and his brother Francis Biden—after he says they were "subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats" motivated by a desire to hurt him.

President Joe Biden pardons brother Jim Biden and other family members on Monday.

"My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me -- the worst kind of partisan politics," Biden wrote in a statement. "Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end."

President Biden on Monday pardoned truth-challenged former chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, embattled retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — including Liz Cheney — just hours before President-elect Donald Trump was due to be sworn in as the 47th commander-in-chief.

President Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and others who some speculated may have faced investigations under the incoming Trump administration on Monday.

Biden's pardons come just hours before he is set to depart the White House and President-elect Trump takes the oath of office once again. The pardon also applies to a litany of people involved in the January 6 select committee investigation.

President Biden issued preemptive pardons Monday to former medical adviser Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark A. Milley and members of the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 to guard against retribution by incoming President Donald Trump.

Mr. Biden said the pardoned persons did not do anything wrong, but he feared Mr. Trump would prosecute them in a personal vendetta.