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  • Joe Biden’s paternal great-great grandfather got a pardon from Abraham Lincoln 160 years ago, new records reveal

    02/20/2024 3:14:53 PM PST · by Twotone · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | February 19, 2024 | Ryan King
    Abraham Lincoln didn’t just free the slaves and preserve the Union. America’s 16th (and arguably greatest-ever) president also pardoned the current chief executive’s paternal great-great-grandfather after he was sentenced to hard labor at a military prison, newly unearthed documents show. President Biden’s ancestor, Moses Robinette, was put in the dock after he came to blows with one John Alexander, a fellow civilian employee of the Union Army, on March 21, 1864, according to records found by the Washington Post. Alexander, a brigade wagon master, was left bloodied by wounds that came from Robinette’s pocket knife and the presidential forebear was...
  • WashPost: Lincoln Pardoned Biden Ancestor

    02/19/2024 1:19:06 PM PST · by Navy Patriot · 31 replies
    Newsmax ^ | February 19, 2024 | Brian Freeman
    Documents discovered at the National Archives in Washington show that former President Abraham Lincoln pardoned the great-great-grandfather of President Joe Biden, a Union Army civilian employee named Moses Robinette, The Washington Post reported Monday. Joseph Robinette Biden's ancestral line has long been known and includes Moses Robinette among his paternal ancestors from western Maryland, but little has been chronicled about the man until his court-martial records were discovered. The story dates to March 21, 1864 during the Civil War, when a fight broke out in one of the mess tents near Beverly Ford, Virginia, between Robinette and Union Army civilian...