LOS ANGELES.–Minutes before the presidential inauguration, 82-year-old President Joe Biden’s handlers completed preemptive pardons for his entire family and for members of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, many of whom might have destroyed evidence before disbanding the committee Jan. 3, 2023. Biden’s handlers made clear that anyone potentially in 78-year-old President Donald Trump’s crosshairs should receive a preemptive pardon. Preemptive pardons have never been tested in the courts in terms of constitutionality, so there are no cases of pardons to someone never charged or convicted of a crime. Included in Biden’s preemptive pardons was Dr. Anthony Fauci who headed, under Trump and Biden, the nation’s response to the Covid-19 global pandemic. Fauci was accused by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) of lying before his Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on several occasions.
Paul confronted Fauci about whether or not he ever funded gain-function-research that experimented with harmless bat coronavirus and turned them into the most deadly pathogens known to man. Fauci denied funding gain-of-function research but the National Institutes of Health records clearly show that Fauci funded New York-based EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak for over $15 million, who gave Wuhan Institute of Virology researcher Shi Zhengli over a million dollars to study bat coronaviruses. Zhengli’s lab was visited by Peoples Liberation Army Chief virologist Chen Wei. Whatever funding Zhengli got from EcoHealth alliance, University of North Carolina microbiologist Robert Baric worked with Zhengli manipulating bat coronaviruses. Fauci was accused by Paul of lying about the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus, saying it occurred naturally in Wuhan, China.
Fauci has denied from the beginning any wrongdoing with respect to the origin of the deadly novel coronavirus. He and Peter Diszak insisted along on other colleagues that the deadly novel coronavirus was transferred most likely from an pangolin or some other intermediate host to humans at a Wuhan wet market, where exotic animals are sold for consumption. Reports of Zhengli’s assistants working in the lab falling sick in Dec. 2019 have been scrubbed from the Wuhan lab by Chinese officials. Some of those researchers fell ill and died of the deadly novel coronavirus. Daszak and 16 other colleagues published a paper in the British Medical Journal Lancet, insisting the virus occurred naturally in Wuhan. Only a few days after World Health Organization [WHO] declared Covid-19 a global pandemic March 11, 2022, Chinese Foreign Minister Spokesman Zhao Lijian said it was made in America.
Fauci said nothing when Zhao blamed the U.S. March 13, 2020 for infecting Wuhan, China with a bioweapon made in Fort Detrick, Md. Fauci mentioned nothing because he continued as long as possible to insist the virus occurred naturally in Wuhan. Fauci turned against Trump when he said April 30. 2020 that the deadly novel coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. “Let me be perfectly clear, Jon, I have committed no crime, you know that, and there are no possible grounds for any allegation or threat of criminal investigation or prosecution of me,” Fauci said to ABC News Jonathan Karl. Fauci said he was grateful for Biden’s pardon due to the possibility of a politically motivate prosecution “creates immeasurable and intolerable distress” for him and his family. Fauci doesn’t know that he perjured himself before Paul’s committee.
Fauci, the grandfather-like figure former at the National Institutes of Health, joined the resistance in the 2020 presidential campaign, disparaging Trump’s handling of the deadly novel coronavirus pandemic during the 2020 campaign. Together with Washington Post Journalist Bob Woodward, they blamed Trump for mismanaging the crisis, causing unnecessary deaths in the U.S. and around the globe. Trump did everything possible to comply with Fauci’s requests from pandemic preventative measures, even shutting down business for about a month. Trump was the one who created Operation Warp Speed to push vaccine makers to make a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris told voters in 2020 that Trump was a long way off from a vaccine. When the election ended Nov. 3, 2020, Pfizer released their first mRNA vaccine Nov. 10, 2020.
Pardon Jan. 6. House Select Committee co-chair former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wy.), Cheney gets a free pass for smearing Trump daily during the 2024 working for Kamala Harris’s campaign. Cheney told voters that Trump planned, organized and participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Cheney for her 18 months on the committee never found any evidence that Trump planned or organized anything. Even the Jan. 6 Committee recommendations to Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland and Special Counsel Jack Smith never said that Trump planned or participated in anything. Former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case against Trump involved election interference based on his “state of mind,” never saying anything about Trump planning, organizing and participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Yet Cheney tells the public than Trump planned, organized and participated in Jan. 6.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.