Biden’s Final Pardons Include Dr. Anthony Fauci, Jan 6 Committee

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In his final hours as President of the United States, Joe Biden pardoned the following: Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the lawmakers and staff that served not he January 6 committee.

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Biden said these pardons were to save them from incoming President Donald Trump. “Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families,” Biden said in a statement Monday morning. Fauci released a statement which said he appreciated Biden’s pardon but insisted that he had done nothing wrong.

“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgement that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden added. “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”

Biden set the presidential records for most individuals pardons and commutations, including reducing the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. Previously, he converted the sentences of 37 of the 40 men on federal death row to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

According to National Review:

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The preemptive pardons are unprecedented because they shield many of the president-elect’s top enemies from criminal prosecution before they have even been investigated, though Biden insisted they shouldn’t be taken to imply guilt on the part of the recipients…

..The House Administration Committee’s oversight subcommittee released a report last year, seeking to undermine the January 6 committee and its star witness, whose dramatic account of Trump’s actions were contradicted by other witnesses.

Biden also pardoned the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the January 6 committee.

Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and former chief medical adviser to the president, has been criticized by Republican lawmakers over his role in instituting Covid-19 lockdowns and masking measures in 2020. Testifying under oath before Congress, Fauci insisted that the NIH had not funded gain-of-function research of the kind conducted in Wuhan China, where the Covid pandemic emerged. Internal documents revealed that the agency had in fact funded research at the Wuhan lab designed to make viruses more transmissible, efforts that fit the traditional definition of gain-of-function research.

One of his fiercest critics, Senator Rand Paul (R., Ky.), repeatedly grilled Fauci on Capitol Hill and argued the doctor lied to Congress about the Wuhan lab funding. Paul has urged the Justice Department to prosecute Fauci for perjury.

Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Trump a “total fascist” the month before the November election and said the then-GOP nominee was the “most dangerous person to this country.” Their feud began years ago.

The retired general drew the ire of Trump after he didn’t back the then-president following January 6. He also faced heated criticism from GOP congressmen after he dismissed conservatives’ concerns that teaching critical race theory in the U.S. military is “woke.”

“I want to understand white rage, and I’m white,” Milley said in 2021, noting that the crowd that partook in the January 6 Capitol riot was mostly white.

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