Outgoing President Joe Biden issued a slate of pardons Monday for people who may have been targets of President-elect Donald Trump's Justice Department.

While leaving the White House for the final time to get into a waiting vehicle, Biden awkwardly stroked the hand of the (male) Secret Service agent holding the car door open. President Biden and President-elect Trump have departed the White House. Biden in the Presidential motorcade for the last time as President. @FOX4 pic.twitter.com/vEpKD42nFI

"We’re leaving office, we’re not leaving the fight," Joe Biden told supporters Monday as the now former president prepared to leave Washington DC after one-term and the return of Donald Trump. As Biden spoke,

GOP lawmaker Kevin McCarthy clashed with NBC hosts during a contentious interview where he pointed to an alleged double standard against President Trump.

Just hours before leaving office Monday, Jan. 19, President Joe Biden pardoned potential targets of Donald Trump’s second presidential administration, including Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-San Bernardino.

Joe Biden ‘s term as President of the United States has officially come to an end, and he marked the occasion with a White House selfie alongside his wife, Dr. Jill Biden.

Trump offered a scathing rebuke of his predecessor's term while laying out the immediate actions he plans to take on the first day of his second term in office.

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Trump took aim at the two former lawmakers hours after former President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

After the pardons were announced, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky — both Republicans — posted to X claiming that issuing pardons to Fauci, Milley and others implied they were guilty of a crime, as did other right-leaning accounts on the platform.

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