Former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty said Tuesday that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of former National Institute of Allergy
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded to President Joe Biden issuing him a preemptive pardon on Monday.
In addition to Fauci, Biden also granted pardons to General Mark Milley, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and the US Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.
Dr. Anthony Fauci helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID pandemic. He has never been charged with a crime, yet received a “full and unconditional” pardon back to Jan. 1, 2014.
With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
Dr. Kelly Victory, chief of disaster and emergency medicine at The Wellness Company, warns that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon for Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and COVID advisor to the Biden administration,
The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.
A day that began with the outgoing president’s pardon of lawmakers and his own family ended with the incoming president’s pardon of supporters who attacked the U.S.
With just a few hours remaining in his presidency, Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and members of the January 6th Committee and their staffs, amid concerns that they would be targets of investigation by the incoming administration.
Biden also issued pardons for former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and Liz Cheney and other former members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The pardoned individuals, including Anthony Fauci and Liz Cheney, may lose the ability to invoke their Fifth Amendment privileges when testifying.