Rand Paul Again Referring Fauci to the DOJ for Prosecution for Perjury

This week started with some good news for conservatives who have been demanding accountability of key players in the COVID-19 crisis, the manufactured pandemic imposed on the country and the world in 2020. Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky announced that he would be reissuing a criminal referral against Dr. Anthony Fauci for lying to the Congress under oath.

Fauci, who remained the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, was the leading medical official during the COVID-19 years. He was routinely hailed by the mainstream and slammed by the anti-establishment voices for his claims and public health advice, notably pushing the COVID-19 vaccines that were fast-tracked without adequate testing for safety and efficacy.

In 2021, Fauci was caught in the big lie about gain-of-function research carried out in Wuhan (China) with the backing of the U.S. federal government during the Obama administration. Fauci denied that NIH funded any gain-of-function research – the kind that makes a virus stronger in its infectious capability – while official documents showed otherwise. Senator Paul then issued a criminal referral against Fauci to Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), where it was ignored. In 2023, Paul reissued the criminal referral against Fauci on the same grounds, only to be ignored again.

Before the end of his presidency, Joe Biden issued many pardons, including preemptive pardons to select people including Fauci. The preemptive pardon is supposed to protect a person from criminal prosecution in future even if he/she is not yet convicted or prosecuted for any crime. Biden wanted to make sure Fauci remained protected. Or did he?

Recent revelations from email records published in the New York Times (NYT) suggest that Biden didn’t pardon Fauci, but Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients did so, using the autopen that generates the sitting President’s signature on any official document. Fox News cited NYT when reporting this story:

The New York Times reported that emails showed that Biden’s Chief of Staff Jeff Zients gave final approval for the use of the autopen for preemptive pardons for Fauci and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, two of Trump’s top critics.

This development came to blow the cover of presidential pardon off Fauci’s head, potentially leaving him open for prosecution. With Biden’s DOJ no longer in place to protect Fauci from accountability, Senator Paul has acted again on his commitment to hold him accountable for lying to the Congress and thereby the nation about funding the unethical gain-of-function research on coronavirus. On July 14, Senator Paul wrote on his X page that Fauci must be held accountable for perjury.

Following up on the story the next day, Senator Paul appeared on Fox News to answer questions by anchor Maria Bartiromo about the preemptive pardon under Biden and Fauci’s infamous congressional testimony about the gain-of-function research. Paul reminded that other members of NIH have testified against Fauci’s claim and confirmed that Fauci indeed funded such research during the Obama administration.

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