Anthony Fauci spent five years telling America the pandemic came from nature.
The government proved he knew otherwise from day one.
Now two senators are demanding Trump's DOJ take an action against Fauci that has never been done in American history.
Paul Drops the Timeline That Fauci Cannot Explain
Sen. Rand Paul laid out the most damning chronology yet against Fauci on Just the News, No Noise – and none of it has an innocent explanation.
At 3 a.m. in late January 2020, while a pandemic was spreading from Wuhan, Fauci was emailing Dr. Robert Kadlec to insist the virus had "nothing to do with the lab."
His agency had already funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The spin operation started before sunrise.
Within days, Fauci convened the February 1, 2020 conference call. Top virologists privately told him the virus appeared engineered – flagging its furin cleavage site, a signature feature that does not arise naturally in bat coronaviruses.
Those same scientists published a paper days later publicly declaring COVID-19 was "not a laboratory construct." Paul called that language "adamant language you rarely see in a scientific article – political type of language, PR type of language."
One author of that paper later received an $8 million grant approved by Fauci's own agency. Fauci then cited the paper in White House briefings as independent scientific proof against a lab leak – never disclosing he had helped commission and edit it.
"It's a big circle," Paul said, "but it's all around Anthony Fauci."
Gabbard Releases the Files as Two Fauci Deputies Face Federal Charges
On her final day as DNI, Tulsi Gabbard released never-before-seen communications confirming that Fauci directed millions in American taxpayer dollars toward dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology – the research now widely identified as the source of the pandemic.
The documents also expose how Fauci then weaponized his intelligence community relationships to bury that fact.
Career CIA operations officer James Erdman III had testified under oath on May 13 before Paul's Senate Homeland Security Committee that Fauci inserted himself into the CIA's COVID origins review at two critical moments – February 2020 and June 2021 – handpicking which experts the agency consulted and pushing analysts toward a predetermined finding.
Six of seven CIA technical experts backed the lab leak theory. After Fauci's intervention, the official conclusion shifted to: "we may never precisely know the origin of SARS-CoV-2."
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said, "Anthony Fauci is a bad person, and he ought to be prosecuted, because I believe he did commit crimes."
The DOJ moved in April against two of Fauci's top lieutenants. David Morens, Fauci's senior NIAID adviser from 2006 through 2022, now faces federal charges for conspiracy against the United States, destruction and falsification of records, and concealment of government documents.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called the allegations "a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most." Morens had boasted in emails about using a government FOIA officer to hide records – caught red-handed, as House Oversight Chairman James Comer put it.
NIH virologist Vincent Munster is also under FBI investigation after being stopped at the airport returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo carrying pathogen samples he described as "diagnostic equipment."
Paul sees both cases as leverage. "My goodness," he said, "it would be worth it to see one or two of his lieutenants give up testimony they would not have given up otherwise, but now that they've been indicted, might be inclined to tell the truth."
The Pardon Biden Signed in His Sleep
Fauci's last line of defense is a blanket preemptive pardon Biden issued on his final night in office – not for any specific crime, but covering a 10-year window dating back to 2014. That starting date is not arbitrary. President Obama paused gain-of-function research that year. Fauci kept funding it anyway.
Biden's staff executed the clemency documents by autopen – a machine that replicates a signature – with no documented confirmation that Biden personally reviewed or approved each pardon. Paul is pushing DOJ to challenge that in court.
"Was President Biden of sound mind? Did he understand who he was pardoning? Did he participate in it?" Paul asked. "It's a pardon not for a specific crime, and it's a pardon over a 10-year period. I think it could be challenged, and should be challenged."
No court has ever ruled on whether a blanket preemptive pardon executed by machine – without presidential review, for no named crime – can shield a man from conduct documented in his own emails.
Paul's approach is direct: charge Fauci and let the courts determine if the pardon holds.
Fauci funded the research. His deputies destroyed the records. His allies rewrote the intelligence assessments. A machine-generated signature is the only thing keeping him out of a federal courtroom – and two senators are now demanding Trump's DOJ find out whether that signature was ever legally his.
Sources:
- Rand Paul, "Sen. Rand Paul Re-Refers Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice," Senate Homeland Security Committee, July 14, 2025.
- Katherine Pugh and Amanda Head, "'Challenge in court': Two top senators urge Trump DOJ to prosecute Fauci despite Biden pardon," Just the News, June 17, 2026.
- U.S. Department of Justice, "Former Senior NIAID Official Indicted for Concealing Federal Records During COVID-19 Pandemic," DOJ Office of Public Affairs, April 28, 2026.
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence, "Fauci Funded Wuhan Lab Research That Sparked COVID," DNI Press Release No. 11-26, June 18, 2026.
- Senate Homeland Security Committee, "Chairman Paul Delivers Opening Remarks During Whistleblower Hearing on the Multi-Agency Cover-Up of COVID-19," May 13, 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "Rand Paul asks DOJ to charge Fauci before statute of limitation expires," May 11, 2026.
