Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Safety Committee, is asking on the Justice Division (DOJ) to cost former senior nationwide well being adviser Anthony Fauci with mendacity to Congress to check whether or not former President Biden’s pardon of Fauci will maintain up in court docket.
“I do believe Anthony Fauci committed a felony by lying to Congress,” Paul informed pro-President Trump activist Charlie Kirk in an interview when requested whether or not Biden pardon’s signed by autopen would maintain up in court docket.
“It’s a must to cost him with a felony, take him to court docket after which the court docket will determine whether or not or not the pardon is upheld,” he continued. “You’ll be able to argue till you’re blue within the face that you could’t do autopens and that possibly the president wasn’t conscious of it. However the one approach to truly do that is to cost somebody who has been pardoned.”
The Kentucky Republican added, “I believe Anthony Fauci is the almost certainly to be chargeable. There are different folks — Hunter Biden might be charged as effectively — however somebody needs to be charged.”
Paul says Fauci testified earlier than Congress “in a very vigorous and heated and animated way” that the Nationwide Institutes of Well being by no means funded gain-of-function virus analysis in Wuhan, China.
“This is directly contradicted by the actual people who were involved in the funding,” the senator mentioned.
Different Republicans, nevertheless, have expressed skepticism about difficult the autopen pardons after Biden informed The New York Occasions that he personally authorized them.
“I made every decision,” Biden informed The Occasions earlier this month.
He mentioned he had his workers use an autopen to duplicate his signature as a result of “we’re talking about a whole lot of people.”
Biden additionally pardoned his son Hunter, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees Mark Milley and members of the Home committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on Congress.
