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Why has Biden pardoned Anthony Fauci?
The Spectator ^ | January 21, 2025 | Matt Ridley

Posted on 01/22/2025 11:28:43 AM PST by absalom01

Joe Biden left it until the last minute to issue a pre-emptive pardon of Anthony Fauci for any offence committed since 2014 in his work on ‘the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House Covid-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.’ Yet surely Covid began in 2019, not 2014?

The significance of 2014 is that this was when the Obama administration responded to anxiety among some scientists about a series of experiments that made influenza viruses potentially more dangerous to people – by banning federal funding for any such gain-of-function experiments.

Yet from June 2014 money flowed from Fauci’s National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to support experimentswhich led to gain-of-functionin Wuhan in China via an organisation called the EcoHealth Alliance. There, SARS-like viruses ‘gained’ the function in certain experiments of becoming 10,000 times more infectious in humanised mice. (Both the NIH and EcoHealth Alliance have denied any wrongdoing.)

‘So let me get this straight: Fauci’s pardon goes all the way back to 2014, the year he started funding the labs that eventually helped create the chaos we’ve all been living through,’ wrote the science journalist Dr Simon Goddek on hearing news of the pardon.

Fauci hotly denied to Congress that he had ever funded gain of function experiments in Wuhan, telling senator Rand Paul ‘You do not know what you are talking about’. Heclaimed that one particular narrow definition of gain of function did not apply in this case because it did not include animal viruses, only human ones. Besides, the EcoHealth president, Peter Daszak, wrote an email in 2016 to Fauci’s colleague saying ‘we are very happy to hear that our gain of function research funding pause has been lifted’ (my emphasis).

Senator Paul was pulling no punches on Monday: ‘If there was ever any doubt as to who bears responsibility for the Covid pandemic, Biden’s pardon of Fauci forever seals the deal. As Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee I will not rest until the entire truth of the coverup is exposed. Fauci’s pardon will only serve as an accelerant to pierce the veil of deception. Ignominious! Anthony Fauci will go down in history as the first government scientist to be preemptively pardoned for a crime.’

As Paul hints, this is not the end of the matter. Biden’s pardon applies only to federal prosecutions, not state ones. And it also makes it harder for Fauci in any congressional hearings to ‘claim the Fifth’ since he could not implicate himself in a crime for which he is immune. More generally, the pardon seems to imply guilt. The Biden White House says not, but then the Biden Justice Department said a few months ago that ‘accepting a pardon from Donald Trump is “a confession of guilt” for your crimes’. They cannot have it both ways. (Dr Fauci denies any criminal wrongdoing, stating that ‘there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me.’)

Had he been prosecuted by the Trump administration, Fauci could have been accused of at least three offences: funding research that was forbidden, some of which may have led to a terrible pandemic, lying to Congress about it and covering up evidence to obscure the origin of Covid.

His emails and testimonies relating to the early months of the pandemic appear to reveal a consistent pattern of trying to deflect attention from the possibility that the outbreak began with an accident in the very Wuhan laboratory his agency had had funded. In those early weeks, remember, people thought the epidemic would probably blow over and be soon forgotten rather than pored over by investigators for years.

A few days before the pardon was announced, Peter Daszak and EcoHealth were officially debarred from receiving future federal funding on the recommendation of Congress. Daszak was fired by EcoHealth at the same time, perhaps so he could receive severance payments, which resigning would not allow.

There is something approaching full-scale panic in the American scientific bureaucracy at what the Trump administration may reveal in the coming months about what went on in Wuhan with the support of American grants and American expertise.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; ccpvirus; covid; fauci; gainoffunction
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Not sure if Fauci has accepted the pardon, but plenty of folks are pointing out that if he does, he won't be able to refuse to answer questions in any congressional inquiry. And if he decides to get cute and lie again, that's a new crime for which he does not have immunity.

Put him on the stand and grill him.

1 posted on 01/22/2025 11:28:43 AM PST by absalom01
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To: absalom01

The Crime Gang at the White House did the pardoning so these people wouldn’t tell on them ,LOL


2 posted on 01/22/2025 11:30:31 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: absalom01

how is preemptive pardon even legal?

it’s as absurd as squatters rights


3 posted on 01/22/2025 11:39:05 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: absalom01

Who had the devious idea of using a Virus to steal elections? Was it Fauci? The World may never know for sure.


4 posted on 01/22/2025 11:42:05 AM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: absalom01

Put Quackony Fauxi on the stand, grill him, get the truth and then have SCOTUS declare presumptive pardons unconstitutional. Then the real retribution can begin.
Fauxi is total evil.


5 posted on 01/22/2025 11:44:04 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: absalom01

Fauci approved aid to the Wuhan biowarfare lab. He then falsified records and/or lied under oath to cover his tracks.

If Fauci had been more forthcoming, the Covid pandemic might not have happened. Or it would have been FAR more mild.


6 posted on 01/22/2025 11:47:08 AM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Nateman

At the outset, he seemed mostly interested in saving his own skin.

The uniparty stumbled around a little bit right at the beginning. The initial instinct was to use their old reliable “it’s racist”, to point out that the origin was in China. Pelosi was out there saying it would be racist to not go to Chinese New Year celebrations.

They quickly figured out that fear mongering, and then blaming Trump for whatever went wrong was the path forward. So Fauci surely helped with that effort once it got started.

It would be great to sit him on a witness chair and see Rand Paul ask him some Questions.


7 posted on 01/22/2025 11:47:39 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: absalom01

The Constitution allows guilty criminals who committed crimes to receive pardons by the President. So, that’s why Fauci was pardoned.


8 posted on 01/22/2025 11:48:14 AM PST by Degaston
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To: Nateman

Paging Javier Milei.

EC


9 posted on 01/22/2025 11:50:47 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: absalom01
As Paul hints, this is not the end of the matter. Biden’s pardon applies only to federal prosecutions,

Hey Senator Rand Paul...Fauci has a pardon

So he can't plead the Fifth

If he lies he goes to jail

So haul his A$$ in front of your committee

And may the wheels of justice grind Faucin exceedingly fine.

10 posted on 01/22/2025 11:52:41 AM PST by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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To: absalom01

Isn’t it “racist” to call the Lunar New Year celebrations as the “Chinese New Year” ;) The Chinese do not own the Lunar Calendar. This would be like calling the Jan 1st New Year as the “New York Time Square New Year”. I do celebrate the Lunar New Year because my wife is Vietnamese.


11 posted on 01/22/2025 11:53:22 AM PST by Degaston
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To: LuxAerterna

No way was Fauci going to interfere with the plan which he was part of.

Covid was is a three part bio-weapon. Covid itself, the vaxxine, the masks & lockdowns.


12 posted on 01/22/2025 11:58:28 AM PST by Cold Heart (Government for moral and religious people. Democrat party is neither )
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To: spokeshave

As I understand it, Fauci has to accept the pardon for it to be effective, as doing so is basically an admission of guilt. At least according to SCOTUS.

Burdick V. US

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/79/


13 posted on 01/22/2025 12:00:09 PM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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14 posted on 01/22/2025 12:01:06 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: absalom01
At the outset, he seemed mostly interested in saving his own skin.

The uniparty stumbled around a little bit right at the beginning. The initial instinct was to use their old reliable “it’s racist”, to point out that the origin was in China. Pelosi was out there saying it would be racist to not go to Chinese New Year celebrations.

They quickly figured out that fear mongering, and then blaming Trump for whatever went wrong was the path forward. So Fauci surely helped with that effort once it got started.

Fauci knew he was guilty due to NIH funding the gain of function research at the lab in Wuhan, China.

Fauci Knew NIH Funded Wuhan’s Gain-of-Function Research as Pandemic Began, Email Reveals

China covered up. Fauci knew what was the cause of the virus but didn't disclose to the American Public what was happening.

The only thing the Democrats cared about was kicking Donald Trump out of the White House.

15 posted on 01/22/2025 12:08:02 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: absalom01

He also used his influence to control the health response, focusing only on his genetic treatment of choice. The only disease where treatments were not tried, symptoms mitigated, and absolute control of drs everywhere. That response killed over half of the ultimate death rate.


16 posted on 01/22/2025 12:14:23 PM PST by wgmalabama (For rent….)
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To: absalom01

I’d love for DJT to issue an executive order renaming Covid-19 to Fauci-19.

Simple and effective


17 posted on 01/22/2025 12:16:04 PM PST by whatexit (Biden is an unmanned drone. )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Pretty soon there will be pardons for future crimes :)


18 posted on 01/22/2025 12:23:41 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: absalom01

Matt, Why do you keep thinking Biden has the capacity to do anything except ask for ice cream?


19 posted on 01/22/2025 12:34:50 PM PST by Salvavida (NS)
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To: absalom01

Fauci basically put Biden in the White House, via covid lockdowns, and subsequent mail-in ballots fraud.


20 posted on 01/22/2025 12:36:49 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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