Members of the GOP working on Capitol Hill are moving at speeds so fast they’re about to go plaid (please tell me you’ve watched Spaceballs) as they work to lay the smack down on Dr. Anthony Fauci, otherwise known as “Dr. Doom.” This group of individuals is slapping Fauci with a criminal referral for benefiting from an alleged plot to go around former President Joe Biden and be pardoned via White House autopen.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is the one heading up the effort. He announced on Monday that’s referring Fauci to Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department following an interview where it was revealed that the pardon from Biden was signed by autopen.
The New York Times was investigating the last few weeks of the Biden administration when they discovered that White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients signed off on the last minute pardon for Fauci. He also approved pardons for members of the J6 select committee, including one for former Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY).
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“I approve the use of the autopen for the execution of all of the following pardons,” Zients wrote in an email shortly after a summarized list of pardons was apparently presented to Biden for approval. President Donald Trump has encouraged Republicans to investigate whether pardons signed with an autopen may be invalidated. The machine, which replicates a person’s signature, is typically used for low-level documents such as constituent letters or proclamations, but was used liberally after Biden ended his reelection campaign amid allegations of his declining mental acuity.
The opening has left Republicans salivating at the chance to investigate Fauci, Cheney, and members of the Biden family who were pardoned on the Democrat’s last day in office. In particular, Trump has vowed to prosecute Fauci for the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Cheney’s participation in the J6 committee, which laid the blame on Trump for the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol.
Biden spoke with the Times for its story, underscoring how defensive he and his aides have become about shaping the damaging narrative surrounding his presidency. He admitted that he “did not individually approve” each pardon but insisted that he only overlooked the names of criminal convicts, not those benefitting from high-profile pardons that have garnered the most attention.
“Rather than ask Biden to keep signing revised versions, his staff waited and then ran the final version thru the autopen, which they saw as…routine,” the NY Times piece says about the process of obtaining Biden’s approval for pardons.
Not long after he received his pardon, Fauci once again claimed he had “committed no crime.”
“Let me be perfectly clear: I have committed no crime and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me,” he said to Politico in January.
He then stated that the “mere articulation of these baseless threats and the potential that they will be acted upon, create immeasurable and intolerable distress for me and my family,” Fauci continued in his statement, saying he appreciated, “the action that President Biden has taken on my behalf.”
“Among other allegations, Republicans have accused Fauci of hiding evidence that the Wuhan lab in China leaked a bioengineered coronavirus that caused the global pandemic in 2020. They have cited emails from National Institutes of Health workers under Fauci who discussed ways to avoid complying with public records laws,” the report said.
After he stepped down from his government position, Fauci secured a $5 million deal to sell his memoir. A perfect title for a new book about Fauci, that I would love to see, “Tiny Tyrant and The Tale of His Terrible Time in the Tank.”
It would be all about the not-so-fun time he’d have in prison for all the bad things he’s done over the course of his career.
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