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.

Biden leaves behind a complicated legacy of legislative wins and economic gains, along with a trail of fractured relationships and grievances within his own party.

"With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in U.S. history," President Joe Biden wrote in his announcement Friday.

The timing of the clemency actions, should Biden decide to grant them, is likely to be during his final hours in office and could include pre-emptive pardons, sources told NBC News.

President Joe Biden, in one of his final acts in the White House, announced a new wave of clemency decisions Friday, commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders.

Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, setting a presidential record.

President Biden said the 2,500 sentences for nonviolent drug offenses were "disproportionately long" compared to modern-day sentences.

With his presidency nearly over, Joe Biden is considering preemptive pardons for people Donald Trump has criticized or threatened.

The report of the special counsel behind the prosecutions against Hunter Biden, David Weiss, was released Monday.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer and a pair of IRS whistleblowers slammed Special Counsel David Weiss' final report on first son Hunter Biden as incomplete.

The Justice Department special counsel whose six-year case into Hunter Biden was short-circuited last month by the unconditional pardon President Joe Biden granted to his son, criticized the outgoing president in his final report Monday.

President Biden, in his farewell address to the nation, said there is a "short distance between peril and possibility."