According to Grok and ChatGPT this is not accurate
ChatGPT:
- Biden issued those “preemptive” pardons in the final hours of his presidency, on January 20, 2025. Voice of America+3The Washington Post+3The Guardian+3
- According to the Washington Post, the pardons were announced with about 20 minutes remaining in his term. The Washington Post
- There’s no credible media report of a foreign trip at that time. In fact, a planned trip to Italy was canceled earlier in January
Of course those "credible media" reports from legacy media often referenced by AI are often not credible.
Grok:
No, President Biden did not pardon Anthony Fauci or Liz Cheney while out of the country. These preemptive pardons were issued on January 20, 2025, hours before Trump's inauguration. Biden was in Washington, D.C., at the time, overseeing the transition and attending inauguration events; there are no reports of him being abroad on that date.