{"id":2637390,"date":"2026-07-29T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-respects-presidential-pardon-power-after-fauci-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T17:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:19:45","slug":"trump-says-he-respects-presidential-pardon-power-after-fauci-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-he-respects-presidential-pardon-power-after-fauci-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he respects presidential pardon power after Fauci hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-he-respects-presidential-pardon-power-after-fauci-hearing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2637390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump expressed respect for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-says-no-consideration-of-hunter-biden-pardon\/\" title=\"White House denies Hunter Biden ... consideration.\">presidential pardon power<\/a>, commenting on Joe Biden\u2019s preemptive pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci. This statement followed Fauci&#8217;s recent appearance before Congress, during which he invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times despite accepting Biden\u2019s pardon. Trump acknowledged Fauci&#8217;s legal stance and noted that he has not always been a supporter of Fauci, criticizing his COVID-19 policies. The congressional hearing was prompted by the release of Fauci\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-democrats-using-january-6-commission-to-criminalize-political-dissent\/\" title=\"FNC&#039;s Carlson: Democrats Using January 6 Commission to &#039;Criminalize Political Dissent&#039;\">personal diary entries<\/a> by Senator Rand Paul, which have led to discussions about holding Fauci in contempt for refusing to testify further. Trump emphasized the importance of the pardon power and highlighted the political tensions surrounding Fauci and recent U.S. COVID-19 management and government openness issues.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"4\">Donald Trump<\/a> said he respects the pardon power, even if it is former President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"471\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s preemptive pardon of Dr. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anthony-fauci\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1404\">Anthony Fauci<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s admission came hours after Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Biden\u2019s chief medical adviser, took the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during an appearance before Congress on Wednesday, despite accepting Biden\u2019s pardon.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4667816\/trump-may-reject-aurelien-lechevallier-french-ambassador-us-un-human-rights\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>US considers rejecting French ambassador appointment as countries feud over UN and human rights<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4668235\/trump-respects-presidential-pardon-power-fauci\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump says he respects presidential pardon power in wake of Fauci hearing<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4667437\/trump-grass-washington-parks\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump announces plan to replace grass in DC parks<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe most powerful thing a president has, they say, is the power of pardon,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. \u201cSo he was pardoned by Biden, and I respect that. I know how powerful it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, who has criticized Fauci for his at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-us-ambassador-arrested-accused-of-working-for-communist-nation-report\/\" title=\"Ex-US Ambassador Arrested, Accused of Serving Communist Nation: Report\">times heavy-handed<\/a> and inconsistent COVID-19 public health policies after the physician became a political lightning rod during the pandemic, added he had \u201cnever been a big fan\u201d of Fauci but noted the doctor pleaded the Fifth before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at the direction of his attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know if he would have been better off not doing it,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were a lot of questions that I guess he could have answered, and some maybe he didn\u2019t feel comfortable in answering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4667697\/fauci-fifth-amendment-pardon-contempt\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4667697\/fauci-fifth-amendment-pardon-contempt\/\">FAUCI\u2019S FIFTH AMENDMENT ANSWERS MAY TEST BIDEN PARDON AS GOP EYES CONTEMPT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fauci\u2019s congressional appearance on Wednesday was precipitated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/health-and-human-services\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"364\">Health and Human Services<\/a> Secretary <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/robert-f-kennedy\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"2316\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> identifying 1,100 pages of Fauci\u2019s personal diary entries from December 2019 to December 2022 on HHS computer servers before sharing them with Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/rand-paul\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"230\">Rand Paul<\/a> (R-KY), who then made them public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, told reporters on Wednesday his panel would vote next week on whether to hold Fauci\u00a0in contempt of Congress for declining to provide testimony to lawmakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump respects pardon power after Fauci&#8217;s Fifth Amendment use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2637391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26210710936682.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4434,46265,45801,3634,32515],"class_list":["post-2637390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-fauci","tag-political-statements","tag-presidential-pardon","tag-trump","tag-us-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26210710936682.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637394,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637390\/revisions\/2637394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2637391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}