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Posted on 01/16/2026 6:13:43 AM PST by Twotone
Making an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) expressed his frustration that the Trump administration has failed to refer Anthony Fauci for criminal prosecution for lying to Congress.
Paul told Rogan that he believes Fauci's blanket pardon—issued by former President Joe Biden during the waning hours of his presidency—should be challenged in court. Paul said he has provided Attorney General Pam Bondi with evidence that Fauci misled Congress about gain-of-function research and also instructed his deputies to destroy public records in order to stymie scrutiny.
"I've summarized it again in a criminal referral to Trump's attorney general, and I still haven't gotten action," said Paul. "They ought to take it to court."
Paul insisted that he couldn't guarantee victory in court, given the sweeping nature of the pardon issued to Fauci. But he thought it was worth doing in order to see if the Supreme Court might narrow the pardon.
Reason's Christian Britschgi has argued that Fauci's statements to Congress about whether the agency he oversaw funded high-risk gain-of-function research that could have caused the COVID-19 pandemic were certainly misleading. Moreover, the timeline of the Fauci pardon is quite suspicious, since it covers the period of time during which Fauci plausibly signed off on gain-of-function research despite a presidential executive order mandating a pause on such funding. The pardon window does not cover just his time as the nation's top coronavirus adviser, nor does it extend to his entire career in government service: It dates to 2014, when President Barack Obama halted gain-of-function research.
Paul and Rogan also recapped many of the erroneous policies recommended by Fauci during the pandemic: made-up social distancing guidelines, mask mandate flip-flops, and vaccine requirements.
It's always refreshing to see libertarian views being represented on such an important platform. And given President Donald Trump's misguided zeal to enlist his Justice Department to investigate various political enemies for dubious reasons—James Comey, Letitia James, Jerome Powell, and others—it's disappointing that the DOJ isn't contemplating action against Fauci, who is a much more deserving target.
Maybe Bondi just has her hands full drawing black lines all over the Epstein files.
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I don’t want him prosecuted for lying. That is the least of his criminal offenses.
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The Covid 19 virus development was a joint venture between the United States and China.
The Wuhan Lab was just being used as a cutout to subcontract the development from the American team led by Ralph Baric that did the bulk of the bio engineering.
Trump needs to INSIST THEY INDICT DR. FRAUD!
Fixed.
Kill one person and you’re a fiend. Kill a million ...
For his giving aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States Fauci needs to be tried, convicted, and sentenced to a short drop and quick stop.
Lying? Fauci and his ilk should have proper social distancing from humanity...6 feet under.
I’ve seen multiple opinions that the “supposed” pardon was not valid...you need a conviction..
‘ I’ve seen multiple opinions that the “supposed” pardon was not valid...you need a conviction..’
That hasn’t been the case since George Washington.
Sigh. Dr. Fallacy has immunity from everything, and randy knows it.
In that synopsis it states the requirements for a pardon, and states a crime must have been committed, not that a conviction is required.
The whiskey rebellion participants were not convicted. Ford pardoned Nixon and he wasn’t even charged with a crime.
They can’t even get an indictment against Leticca James for flat out mortgage fraud, anyone should know there’s no way in hell they’d be able to get a grand jury to indict Fauci of jaywalking, much less what he would say was “following the science”.
I want that evil prick behind bars as much as anyone but first you would have to invalidate a Presidential pardon. No small thing. Paul knows this, he is bought.
Having RPaul step into this issue is like having Judas step forward ........... defending ANYTHING.
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Putin wants him.
The fact is that the DOJ is busy with all the damn leftist lawfare, especially the immigration lawfare.
Fauci is small potatoes compared to removing 20 million or more illegals in the face of all the lawfare and judicial malfeasance.
I know which one is more important to me. To bad Rand can’t figure it out.
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