by Katherine Pugh and Amanda Head
Paul noted that Fauci's spin operation was not only necessary for political purposes, but for survival, because in Fauci's capacity as a health official, he funded research to humanize the virus and re-adapted it to make it more contagious to humans.
Two top U.S. senators are urging the Trump Justice Department to challenge the legality of President Joe Biden's pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci and to pursue criminal charges against the nation's former top doc during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I think we should challenge the pardon, because it's an
extraordinary pardon. It's a pardon not for a specific crime, and it's a
pardon over a 10 year period. It's the same that he got the same thing
Hunter Biden got," Sen. Rand Paul told the Just the News, No Noise
television show on Tuesday.
"I think that could be challenged in
court, because it's not specific, it's vague, and it doesn't specify the
crime, and it's such a large period of time. So, I think it could be
challenged, and should be challenged," he said.
Paul, a longtime Fauci critic who accused the doctor of misleading
Congress, added that the recent indictment of two Fauci deputies could
give the DOJ leverage to secure their cooperation and testimony against
their former boss.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., echoed Paul's concerns on Wednesday, telling Just the News that he's "pretty certain" what Fauci funded in terms of research caused the COVID pandemic.
"Anthony Fauci is a bad person, and he ought to be prosecuted, because I believe he did commit crimes," Johnson said.
How she has long denied wrongdoing and dismissed such criticisms in the past.
But Biden nonetheless infamously pardoned Fauci in 2024 by autopen before leaving office. Paul compared the pardon to Hunter Biden’s.
Referencing the autopen action, Paul added, "Was President Biden of sound mind? Did he understand who he was pardoning? Did he participate in it? Did he approve of each of the ones that were signed by autopen?"
Paul described some of the most alarming elements of a detailed timeline his committee released last week, and accused Fauci of launching a public relations campaign to deflect scrutiny from his agency’s funding of risky virus research in China as the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in early 2020.
Paul detailed a timeline of Fauci’s actions speaking exclusively to Just The News, citing emails and documents his office obtained. Paul highlighted from the timeline that Fauci was awake at 3 a.m. in late January 2020, emailing Dr. Robert Kadlec, who oversaw dangerous research, falsely asserting the virus originated in animals with “nothing to do with the lab.” Fauci also called on old friends within the intelligence community, according to Paul, to mislead them about what was really going on at the Wuhan, China laboratory.
“He (Fauci) already knows he’s going to have to defend this because he outsourced this dangerous research to China. There weren’t adequate safety controls, and now he's got to start the spin,” Paul said. Paul noted that Fauci's spin operation was not only necessary for political purposes, but for survival, because in Fauci's capacity as a health official, he funded research to humanize the virus and re-adapted it to make it more contagious to humans.
Within a week, according to Paul, on Feb. 1, 2020, a group of top virologists privately told Fauci the virus appeared engineered, citing its furin cleavage site. The furin cleavage site is a short, specific amino acid sequence that acts as a recognition signal for the host enzyme furin to cut and activate the protein.
Days later, several of those same scientists published a prominent paper declaring it was “not a laboratory construct,” language Paul called “adamant language you rarely see in a scientific article, political type of language, PR type of language."
One author later received an $8 million grant approved by Fauci, Paul said. Fauci then cited the paper in White House briefings as independent evidence against a lab leak, despite having helped commission and edit it.
“It’s a big circle, but it’s all around Anthony Fauci,” Paul said.
Two of Fauci's underlings indicted
Encouraging developments, Paul said, include federal indictments of two Fauci lieutenants: David Morens, accused of destroying records and acting as Fauci’s intermediary, and Vincent Munster, a virologist, charged in connection with importing dangerous pathogens into the country without a permit, claiming they were "diagnostic equipment".
Both were involved in research grants that proposed creating viruses with features similar to SARS-CoV-2.
Paul added that Morens and Munster might be willing to flip on the government's former top pandemic doctor and testify if offered leniency on their terms.
“My goodness, it would be worth it to see one or two of his
lieutenants give up testimony that they would not have given up
otherwise, but now that they've been indicted, might be inclined to tell
the truth," Paul said.
Amanda Head is White House Correspondent for Just The News. You can find her here.
Katherine Pugh is a reporter for Just the News. Follow her on X for more coverage.
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Source: https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/sen-rand-paul-fauci-pardon-it-should-be-challenged-court
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