Fauci Pardon: Sacrificing Justice for the Pursuit of Truth

In the realm of public opinion, few figures have been as polarizing as Anthony Fauci. Once hailed by many as “America’s doctor” during the Covid pandemic, Fauci's legacy is now the subject of serious deliberations within the White House, as Biden has confirmed discussions about a potential pardon.

For some, the notion of pardoning Fauci seems absurd, even offensive, particularly among those who have been brainwashed by legacy media narratives. However, beneath the surface-level controversy there are serious questions of culpability regarding Fauci's actions during the pandemic and the origins of the virus itself.

Fauci’s early handling of the pandemic, along with his central role in shaping the narrative surrounding the virus's origin, has come under intense scrutiny. While legacy media has portrayed Fauci in a hugely favorable light, platforms like ours have raised persistent questions about his role in relation to the cover-up of the virus's origins.

Much of the discussion around Fauci’s legal liability centers on his involvement with, and funding of, gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, specifically his exchanges with Senator Rand Paul on this topic. In these exchanges, Fauci claimed not to have funded such experiments. Despite his exasperated protestations, that was a straight-up lie. He did fund gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan lab, outsourcing the work to China after Obama banned such experiments in the United States. How do we know this? Because Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth, Fauci’s conduit to the Wuhan Lab, personally thanked Fauci's office for approving the gain-of-function work in China during Obama’s moratorium.

While Fauci undoubtedly lied, a detailed examination of his interactions with Senator Paul shows that he cunningly weaseled his way around the definition of gain-of-function. His defense would likely be that when he denied funding such experiments, he was referring to other types of gain-of-function research. The situation is further complicated by the fact that Fauci’s organization, the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and its parent body, the National Institutes of Health, altered their definition of gain-of-function over time. This doesn’t mean Fauci didn’t lie; it just makes it legally challenging to prove.

However, there's one area where Fauci's deceit is more tangible, both in terms of the lies themselves and their severe consequences. What's often missed, even by those who've covered Fauci's role in obscuring the virus's origin, is that his lies about Covid’s origin directly impacted his public health strategies. In essence, Fauci’s falsehoods about the virus’s origins had direct, catastrophic impacts on how the public health crisis was managed.

This is likely the real source of concern among Biden's staffers regarding Fauci and the perceived need to grant him a pardon.

To understand this, we need to go back to January 29, 2020, when President Trump established the Covid Task Force. This group was convened to advise the president and National Security Council on all aspects of Covid, including “to monitor, contain, and mitigate the spread of the virus, while ensuring that the American people have the most accurate and up-to-date health and travel information.” Notably, Fauci was appointed as a member of the Task Force on that day.

Two days earlier, on January 27, Fauci’s office received an email from Peter Daszak—the man through whom Fauci was funding the Wuhan lab. The email’s subject line was “Wuhan novel coronavirus-NIAIDs role in bat-origin CoVs.” This must have set off massive alarm bells in Fauci’s office.

The body of Daszak’s email provided Fauci with talking points in case he was asked by the media about the collaboration between himself and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. At the time of Daszak’s warning there had not been any public reporting of the link between Fauci and the Wuhan lab.

Four days later, on January 31, Fauci received an email from a scientist named Kristian Andersen, who claimed that the Covid virus appeared to have been engineered in a lab. It is highly likely Fauci was already aware of this, but the Andersen email provides documentary proof that Fauci knew and when he knew. More importantly, this email marked the beginning of the Fauci-led cover-up of Covid's origins, with Andersen becoming a central figure in this effort. At the time, Andersen had a grant worth $8.9 million awaiting Fauci's approval, giving Fauci leverage over him.

By February 1, just one day after Andersen's message, he had shifted from a scientist who identified the virus's anomalous, engineered-looking features to a staunch advocate of the natural origin theory for Covid. In the space of less than 24 hours, Andersen had effectively become Fauci’s tool.

In the following weeks, Fauci guided Andersen through the process of writing a phony paper claiming the virus was of natural origin, the fraudulent Proximal Origin paper. Fauci then used this paper to categorically dismiss the lab leak theory, even from the White House podium, standing next to Trump, while feigning ignorance of the paper's authors—authors who were acting under Fauci's instructions. In a criminal law context, the fact that Fauci feigned he didn’t know the authors of a paper that he played an instrumental part in shaping is a huge red flag. It is the sort of evidence that could be used to tear his story apart, if he ever faced trial.

These are massive deceptions on Fauci’s part but things get infinitely worse when one considers the fact that Fauci was telling the same lies, and concealing crucial information from Trump’s Task Force.

Fauci was already part of Trump's Task Force when he was explicitly informed by Andersen that the virus likely originated from a lab, possibly the one Fauci had funded. At that moment, Fauci had a duty to inform the Task Force of what he knew. He knew he’d face potential criminal exposure if he lied or concealed facts. However, Fauci did not disclose this information. Instead, he orchestrated a cover-up while telling Trump, the Task Force and the world that the virus was naturally occurring and posed no threat to the United States.

Three days later, on February 3, when the White House director of Science and Technology Policy, Kelvin Droegemeier, asked the National Academy of Sciences to study the origins of the pandemic, Fauci, Andersen and other hand-picked Fauci funded scientists again pushed the natural origin narrative.

At no point did Fauci truthfully tell the president or the Task Force about the likelihood of a lab leak or that he had funded the lab at issue.

Fauci’s lies did not end there. They continued unabated throughout the pandemic. In fact, as of this week, he is still out there telling the same lie about Covid’s origin.

But it was Fauci's failure to inform Trump and the Task Force of the truth that caused the greatest damage and poses the greatest legal threat to him. Fauci not only knew that the virus had likely been engineered but had also been informed about the specific part that had been engineered—the furin cleavage site. Pre-pandemic experiments had shown that this site made viruses highly virulent in humans. A furin cleavage site had never, and still has not, been observed in natural SARS viruses. In other words, the virus had been engineered to spread rapidly among humans.

It's also important to remember that the original SARS virus from 2002 did not have a furin cleavage site and was not pre-adapted for humans. It struggled to transmit between people and resulted in only 774 deaths worldwide. In the United States, only eight people were ever found to have been infected with SARS, with zero deaths and zero local transmissions. Those eight individuals had traveled overseas and did not transmit the virus to anyone else.

Consider the position of a local or state health official being informed that this new virus was a natural SARS virus—precisely the narrative Fauci was presenting. Based on this information, the assumption would likely be that, similar to the original SARS, this virus was highly lethal—with a fatality rate of around 10 percent, rising to over 50 percent in elderly patients—but that it would also have limited transmissibility.

Such an official would prioritize mitigation strategies, under the belief that contact tracing and testing would be critical. Given the SARS experience, it would be expected that transmission would primarily occur among very close contacts, if at all. And those assumptions would have been incorrect. As Fauci knew at the time—in early February—the virus was optimized for human transmission and bore little resemblance to the original SARS virus in terms of how it spread.

We have absolute proof of this. Not only circumstantial proof from Fauci’s cover up activities but incontrovertible documentary proof in the form of an email. That email shows that on February 10, 2020, Fauci’s group emailed each other, with one of Fauci’s scientists stating that the virus “[s]eems to have been pre-adapted for human spread since the get go” and that there might have been an “inadvertent release following adaptation through selection in culture at the institute in Wuhan.”

These observations were quickly confirmed by other, non-Fauci scientists, who found that Covid was “completely optimized from day one without the need to evolve” and attached more effectively to human cells than to any other animal cells, including those of bats.

This was highly unusual. Typically, viruses require time to adapt to human hosts and to transmit effectively between humans. The fact that Covid could readily bind to human cells while struggling to infect other cells, such as those of bats—the species it was purported to have originated from—was extraordinary.

The result of Fauci's deception was that many health experts mistakenly believed this was a deadly virus that was difficult to contract, when in reality, it was a largely non-deadly virus that spread with great ease.

This misconception significantly influenced the public health response. Standard mitigation measures such as contact tracing, testing, hand hygiene, disinfection, masks, and physical distancing were not going to be effective in controlling the outbreak. It was virtually impossible to stop a virus that had been designed with the specific intent to efficiently infect humans.

Contact tracing, which Fauci advocated relentlessly, was particularly ineffective. It is virtually useless for a respiratory disease transmitted by fast-moving, submicroscopic, aerosolized particles that can linger in the air, especially when the virus is pre-optimized for human infection.

Had Fauci informed Trump’s Covid Task Force in early February 2020 that the virus was pre-adapted for human transmission, highly virulent, and destined to spread rapidly, the response would have been markedly different from the ineffective and destructive lockdowns that were ultimately imposed.

Had the truth prevailed, it is likely that the approach outlined in the Great Barrington Declaration would have been implemented. This declaration, proposed by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, and Dr. Sunetra Gupta, advocated for a different strategy. Instead of lockdowns, it recommended focusing on protecting the vulnerable, particularly seniors. It suggested that those not at high risk should continue with normal life activities, including working, playing sports, and visiting restaurants and shops—activities that lockdowns severely restricted.

For their well-founded proposal, Bhattacharya, Kulldorff, and Gupta were ostracized, censored, shunned, and banned. Once again, Fauci was at the center of the efforts against them.

In summary, Fauci's lies and deceptions to the Covid Task Force and President Trump may be his most significant legal vulnerabilities and the easiest to prosecute. However, what might surprise our readers is that we would actually welcome a pardon from Biden. A pardon for Fauci, though an evasion of justice, could serve a greater national purpose. The likelihood of Fauci facing imprisonment is minimal, primarily due to his age and perceived status. In contrast, a pardon might shift the national focus away from the polarizing aspects of Fauci and toward uncovering the full truth about Covid’s origins and the extent of U.S. involvement.