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Paul urges DOJ to charge Fauci to test pardon
The Hill ^ | 23 July | The Hill

Posted on 07/23/2025 9:44:48 AM PDT by RandFan

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is calling on the Justice Department (DOJ) to charge former senior national health adviser Anthony Fauci with lying to Congress to test whether former President Biden’s pardon of Fauci will hold up in court.

“I do believe Anthony Fauci committed a felony by lying to Congress,” Paul told pro-President Trump activist Charlie Kirk in an interview when asked whether Biden pardon’s signed by autopen would hold up in court.

“You have to charge him with a felony, take him to court and then the court will decide whether or not the pardon is upheld,” he continued. “You can argue until you’re blue in the face that you can’t do autopens and that maybe the president wasn’t aware of it. But the only way to actually do this is to charge someone who has been pardoned.”

The Kentucky Republican added, “I think Anthony Fauci is the most likely to be chargeable. There are other people — Hunter Biden could be charged as well — but someone has to be charged.”

Paul says Fauci testified before Congress “in a very vigorous and heated and animated way” that the National Institutes of Health never funded gain-of-function virus research in Wuhan, China.

“This is directly contradicted by the actual people who were involved in the funding,” the senator said.

Other Republicans, however, have expressed skepticism about challenging the autopen pardons after Biden told The New York Times that he personally approved them.

“I made every decision,” Biden told The Times earlier this month.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: alwaysaboutrand; kentucky; randpaulsucks; randstrollfarm
tricky one
1 posted on 07/23/2025 9:44:48 AM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan

A better idea is to simply bring him back before congress, so he can lie again and THEN the past pardon wont help him.


2 posted on 07/23/2025 9:46:38 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: RandFan
Other Republicans, however, have expressed skepticism about challenging the autopen pardons after Biden told The New York Times that he personally approved them.

“I made every decision,” Biden told The Times earlier this month.

Because if Biden told it to the New York Times, it must be the truth. No lying or dementia in there, whatsoever.

3 posted on 07/23/2025 9:47:54 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

How about both?


4 posted on 07/23/2025 9:48:29 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Paul voted against the BBB, now he’s waited what he thinks is proper amount of time and wants everybody to go along with him after he DIDN’T go along when it mattered......I’m sick of this little one way shit, and I for one hope the DOJ ignores his request.


5 posted on 07/23/2025 9:50:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Finally, Rand Paul does something right

Fauci and his co-conspirators should be dancing the Spandau Ballet


6 posted on 07/23/2025 9:51:27 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: RandFan

I agree...The Dems are using the Nixon Pardon as their basis for pre-crime pardons. But we knew, more or less, what the charges against Nixon would be.


7 posted on 07/23/2025 9:55:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RandFan

““I do believe Anthony Fauci committed a felony by lying to Congress...”

So did Bill Clinton. So what. He’s living high on the taxpayer horse with his $246,424 annual unearned gift plus the following:

Office Space and Staffing: Funding for office space, equipment, and staff to assist with post-presidency duties, which includes responding to mail and speaking requests.

Travel Expenses: Reimbursement for travel related to their official duties as representatives of the U.S. government.

Secret Service Protection: Lifetime Secret Service protection for themselves and their spouses (unless they remarry), with children receiving protection until age 16.

Health Benefits: Eligibility for the Federal Employees Health Benefits program if they were enrolled for at least five years.

State Funerals: Guaranteed ceremonies with full honors and the option to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

There is no way congress is going to let Fauci bite the big one as he won’t go down alone. But he is another Epstein candidate. And both parties are filthy.

wy69


8 posted on 07/23/2025 9:55:10 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Unfortunately, I think Fauci is home free. He’s evil. But he’s no dummy. He knows which way the wind is blowing now. So if he’s called to testify again, he’ll probably just invoke his rights under the 5A.

The 5A can be swept aside, but only if he’s given immunity. Then we might learn something about those terrible days. But Fauci himself can’t be touched.

Oh, and his pardon from Biden will certainly be upheld. The courts are very reluctant to interfere with a clear-cut Presidential power.
🙁


9 posted on 07/23/2025 9:57:59 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: RandFan

A written pardon by the President is not required. The use of the autopen was only to leave a paper trail.


10 posted on 07/23/2025 9:58:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SaveFerris
No trial, no Congress.

Military tribunal.

Hang him for making and deploying a deadly bioweapon. Treason is the second charge.

. He collaborated with our arch-enemy China to manufacture and deploy the weapon in the US to cause the deaths of millions and destroy the economy of the USA.

11 posted on 07/23/2025 10:01:51 AM PDT by caddie
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To: RandFan

Why not just hang him to test the rope?


12 posted on 07/23/2025 10:09:43 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: caddie
[Military tribunal.]

Absolutely!




13 posted on 07/23/2025 10:10:36 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: RandFan

Absolutely 100% agree


14 posted on 07/23/2025 10:26:03 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: Sacajaweau
A written pardon by the President is not required. The use of the autopen was only to leave a paper trail.

Do you have a source for this statement?

So, a verbal statement of a pardon is legal?

As far as I know, any government act requires documentation.

15 posted on 07/23/2025 10:27:03 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac
Absolutely......Just google a little....

There is written documentation...and is when the autopen is used.

Kinda works like your high school diploma...they hand you the documention.

16 posted on 07/23/2025 10:36:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: RandFan

“I do believe Anthony Fauci committed a felony by lying to Congress,”
Not to mention his complicity in the deaths of millions of people all over this world and literally torturing hundreds of dogs. This p o s is evil to the bone and deserves to be put down.


17 posted on 07/23/2025 10:41:07 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: drypowder

He deserves is own beagle treatment.


18 posted on 07/23/2025 10:58:26 AM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: RandFan

Fauci will never go to court . Rand is acting more foolish every day.


19 posted on 07/23/2025 11:07:07 AM PDT by Quickgun (I got here kicking,screaming and covered in someone else's blood. I can go out that way if I have to)
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To: RandFan; All

Wake me up when a politician is wearing orange.


20 posted on 07/23/2025 11:52:24 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore.)
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