With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.

The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”

President Joe Biden has sparked fury after issuing preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark A. Milley and the members of Congress who served on the House January 6 X Select Committee.

Biden said the pardons are intended to guard against “baseless and politically motivated investigations” into these “dedicated, selfless public servants.”

President Biden said the pardons are not an "acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing" but rather protect individuals from "unjustified and politically motivated prosectutions."

Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and more just hours before Donald Trump's inauguration.

President Biden noted that the "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing."

Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to Dr Anthony Fauci, General Mark A Milley, and members of the January 6 Committee ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

President Biden issued pre-emptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci and others who may have faced scrutiny under the incoming Trump administration.

The pardons by Biden came as incoming President Trump has repeatedly attacked Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 committee and called for prosecution of his enemies.

During his final hours in office, President Joe Biden pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members against potential Trump "revenge."

Donald Trump has said that he would be open to his billionaire ally Elon Musk or Oracle boss Larry Ellison buying the US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok from parent company ByteDance after granting it a 75-day reprieve on being banned in the US.