Fauci Pardon Greenlit By Aide With No Proof Biden Approved It
The article discusses the controversial pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci by President Joe Biden on his last day in office, which aims to shield Fauci from any future investigations related to his role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite being at the center of much criticism for government-driven suffering during the crisis, Fauci has never been charged with a crime. Notably, Biden did not personally sign the pardon; instead, it was signed using an autopen controlled by a White House staff member, raising questions about whether Biden was fully aware or involved in the pardon decisions. The New York Times reported that the pardon approval process lacked proper documentation and oversight. Biden defended the pardons as protections against politically motivated investigations by the Trump administration, which also included other officials linked to the January 6 committee and military leaders. The article calls for investigations into the autopen pardon process and faucis actions during the pandemic, emphasizing the significant harm caused by COVID-related policies such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine requirements.It argues that Fauci’s blanket pardon is inappropriate without a formal investigation and stresses the need for accountability to prevent similar damage in future health crises.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is at the root of almost all the government-inflicted suffering that happened in the United States during the Covid pandemic. He has never been charged with a crime; nonetheless, on former President Joe Biden’s last day in office, he received a pardon designed to blunt the results of any future Covid investigation by President Donald Trump’s administration.
But Biden did not personally sign Fauci’s pardon; an autopen managed by his White House staff secretary, Stefanie Feldman, did. And a New York Times piece by Washington reporters Charlie Savage and Tyler Pager shows there is no proof Biden even knew about Fauci’s pardon, or the specifics of most of his other pardons.
According to The New York Times, emails indicate that Feldman wanted written confirmation of Biden’s purported verbal approvals before producing an autopen-signed pardon document, so aides to Biden’s senior advisers emailed her so-called “blurbs” with instructions. The aides were told by senior advisers what to include in the blurbs. The aides were not in the room when Biden made the alleged pardon decisions.
The pardon directions had a broken chain of custody, leaving ample opportunity for the advisers or the aides to change or add to what Biden said, if they met with Biden at all.
It is fascinating that Biden did not even put an internal signature on a list of pardons, showing the executive approved them. That is pretty standard in offices where many hands touch a piece of work. It is stupefying that something of such intense interest to every American who lived through Covid was not carefully logged in writing at every stage, for the national record.
The New York Times says it conducted a 10-minute phone interview with Biden. Strange that the retired president could not spare more time, because 10 minutes is hardly enough time to learn everything there is to know about the 4,245 acts of clemency issued in Biden’s name.
Along with Fauci, also pardoned on Biden’s last day were Gen. Mark Milley and members and staff of the House committee that investigated Jan. 6.
“Mr. Biden said he shielded those people, along with members of his family, so they would not have to run up large legal bills from politically motivated investigations by the Trump Justice Department. ‘Everybody knows how vindictive he is, so we knew that they’d do what they’re doing now,’ Mr. Biden said, adding, ‘I consciously made all those decisions,’” according to The New York Times piece.
Too bad The New York Times did not probe further. It would be interesting to hear Biden explain his rationale for why Fauci’s pardon goes back seven years before Biden was president, to Jan. 1, 2014, preemptively absolving him of vague crimes he has not yet been formally charged for. The Jan. 19 pardon covers, “any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon arising from or in any manner related to his service as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, as a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force or the White House COVID-19 Response Team, or as Chief Medical Advisor to the President.”
Ideally, the American people would be given access to a video of Biden having a lucid conversation about the pardons, or at least the audio of the phone call interview between Biden and The Times’ writers, so the public can assess how convincing or bumbling Biden is on this issue.
Whether or not Biden knew Fauci was getting a pardon, it should be revoked. It is not appropriate to give a blanket pardon when there was no investigation and no charges.
Now the American people deserve two investigations: one into the decision-makers behind the autopen and the other probing Fauci’s connections to the origins of the deadly coronavirus variants released on the world, and the policies he promoted, including masking, forcing everyone to stay home, and mandated Covid shots.
For every family member who died alone, for every kid who lost years and milestones while trapped behind a mask or in cyber school, for every business that shut its doors forever, for every person wedged into the choice of submitting to an untested shot or losing his job, we need answers so if there is ever a next time, our response is not so damaging. Fauci must provide answers to so many lingering questions, and he must be held accountable for his role in the deaths and deeds that marked this painful time.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.
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