President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons to three of his siblings and their two spouses, citing concerns they would be targets of "baseless and politically motivated investigations."

The White House announced the pardons just minutes before President-elect Donald Trump entered the Capitol Rotunda to be sworn in as the next commander in chief.

Earlier on Monday, Biden preemptively pardoned a number of other figures on similar grounds, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and members of Congress investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Biden's final batch of pardons included his brother, James Biden; James' wife, Sarah Jones Biden; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Owens' husband, John Owens; and his other brother, Francis Biden.

"The issuance of the pardon should not be misconstrued as an admission that they committed any wrongdoing, nor should it be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any crime," Biden said in a press release.

He also pardoned former Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Gerald Lundegan and former South Carolina congressman Ernest Cromartie. The outgoing president also commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of the 1975 killings of two FBI agents.

Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, in early December, reversing his previous insistence that he would not do so.

Hunter, who was convicted last year in a federal criminal firearms trial, pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case related to tax crimes.

James Biden was interviewed by the House Oversight and Judiciary Committee last year as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Biden.

"My family has been subjected to relentless attacks and threats motivated solely by the intent to harm me — partisan politics at its worst," Biden said in a press release Monday. "Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will Finish."

"I believe in the rule of law and I am optimistic that the power of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics," he said.

"But baseless and politically motivated investigations can wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even if an individual has done nothing wrong and is ultimately exonerated, simply being investigated or prosecuted One fact could cause irreparable damage to their lives "reputationally and financially."

"That is why I have exercised my authority under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, Sarah Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens and Frances W. Biden.”