Online users shared this untrue rumor about the pair in the days before U.S. President Donald Trump's January 2025 inauguration.

It was just moments before Joe Biden's presidential term ended when he announced pardons for his siblings and their spouses.

President Joe Biden pardoned his brother James and other relatives for unspecified crimes, to protect them from Trump administration investigations.

"The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed former President Biden's decision to issue last-second pardons of his family on Tuesday, arguing it hurts his legacy.

Hunter Biden received a “full and unconditional” pardon from his dad, President Joe Biden in December. But this gesture of love, one of President Joe Biden’s final acts while in office, came before Special Counsel Davis Weiss released the final report on his investigation into the president’s son.

President Joe Biden announced a series of last-minute pardons before leaving office Monday, granting preemptive pardons to some family members and other GOP foes, as well as a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey, the late civil rights leader and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association.

Before President Biden issued pardons for his family members, the media took aim at President Trump for floating the idea of preemptive pardons before he left office in 2021.

Biden’s preemptive pardon to cover up for potential misconduct involving himself is a totally different ballgame, and puts him within the company of President Donald Trump at the end of his first

Joe Biden pardoned members of his family in an attempt to avoid prosecution for corruption, exposing the corruption of Biden Inc. and the willingness of the media to deny or deflect the scandal.

Former Biden White House official Kate Bedingfield criticized the last-minute pardons that President Biden granted just before leaving office on Monday.