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Florida attorney general launches investigation into Fauci

After Wednesday morning’s congressional hearing with former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci where he declined to answer any questions and instead pleaded the Fifth Amendment, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced he is launching an investigation into Fauci.

“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social media. “My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.”

On the last day of his presidential term, former President Joe Biden granted Fauci a full and unconditional pardon for any offenses he may have “committed or taken part in” related to his governmental roles from Jan. 1, 2014, through Jan. 19, 2025, the day the pardon was signed.

The pardon protects Fauci from being prosecuted for any federal crimes he may have committed during that time period, but it does not protect him from state prosecutors.

Uthmeier is the first state attorney general to announce an investigation into Fauci, though as the Financial Times reported, others have threatened to since the pandemic.

Wednesday’s hearing came on the heels of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., obtaining and releasing over 1,000 pages from Fauci’s pandemic-era diary. Congress has questioned Fauci before, but access to the former director’s written personal thoughts prompted Republican lawmakers to again challenge him on Capitol Hill. Paul said the diary provided evidence that Fauci’s private thoughts did not align with his public health decisions.

Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself to dozens of questions, including questions as simple as the color of his tie and the color of the carpet.
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Waveney · M
@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout and they won’t even take him. There’s no evidence of wrongdoing.

Deal with it 🕺
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@Waveney You mean St. Fauci did not fund the lab?

Waveney · M
@sunsporter1649 so what if he did? (And it was indirectly funded). There’s no evidence that this funding was linked to the creation of COVID because the bat viruses studied there were different molecularly.

Sadly for you, that’s the end of the Fauci-backed lab creation lie.

It’s fun watching the GOP smash themselves to bits over this 😂
Waveney · M
Nothing is going to come of this. Republicans will find nothing to charge Fauci with, and it will be another complete waste of everyone's time.

You heard it here first.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
“Fauci’s lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable,” Uthmeier wrote on social media. “My office is launching an investigation into Dr. Fauci. It’s past time we get the truth of what happened during COVID.”


I have no problem with this at all. If A. Fauci did something scrupulous during the periode that worked with the lab in wuhan, then that should be brought in front of a court. If a prosecutor can make an evidenced based case, then bring it in front of the court.

Sadly though... the outrage is again partisan/selective. Where was the same attitude when members, co-workers and cheerleaders of the republican party refused to answer questions about the coup attempt on the 6th of januari? How many people pleaded the 5th in that instance? A lot of them, refused to even come before congress... talking about the "lack of candor".

That the party does such a thing... is one thing. That "patriots" have no questions and don't believe in equal treatment for partisan reasons, shows a serious lack of candor for their fellow citizens.
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@trollslayer Isn't the motivation, that Rand Paul found some activity in the archives that can be questionable? I mean, for as far as far I saw his line of questioning, I do think he had a good motive for those questions... and the fact that Fauci pleaded the 5th, doesn't really make it good look either.

Pleading the 5th is not an admission of guilt, but I understand that people will dig further into it.

I will never EVER have a problem, with someone from congress asking direct questions about something that is in the archive and looks fishy.

This is diffrent then low effort you ussually see from people like Jim Jordan, who's only goal is to create smoke screens 🤷‍♂
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
Kwek00 · 41-45, M
@trollslayer I've been a reading little bit... But I tend to agree with you. Rand Paul should have done even more research. Considering there have been 3 big studies that produced a paper (2022, 2024, 2025) that all come to the same conclussion. That the theory that it jumped from animal to human is the most likely scenario.
trollslayer · 51-55, M
This is a witch hunt. Take note.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@trollslayer Evidence like a phone call to Zelensky?
trollslayer · 51-55, M
@sunsporter1649 yep. Do you have a phone call by Dr. Fauci you want to discuss?
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@trollslayer Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Dr. Anthony Fauci admitted in newly released diary entries to having several private discussions with a since-indicted adviser whom he disavowed before Congress in June 2024.

For years, Fauci faced intense political and scientific backlash over US funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology — but denied that such experiments for so-called “gain of function” research, which can increase the transmissibility or infectiousness of viruses, ever occurred.

The then-NIAID chief also testified that he had no knowledge of his longtime senior adviser David Morens — who was indicted in May of this year for concealing and deleting federal records — operating a “‘secret’ back channel” on his behalf to evade Freedom of Information Act requests.

But in the diary entries, which were released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Saturday, Fauci wrote to himself that he was “going to arrange for a phone call with David in order to determine more details as to what is going on,” when referencing claims that he signed off on grants that could have led to the creation of COVID-19, which may have later escaped from WIV.

“It appears that a few of the far right grantees of NIAID are joining with the radical right wing people in the public as well as people in the Congress such as congressman Jim Jordan and Senator Rand Paul to try and connect me with the virus from WUHAN,” he noted.

“In fact, David Morens has heard that these people are trying to ‘bring me down’ .. They are saying that I deliberately worked with the Chinese together with Peter Daszak to create a virus that would be released to the world,” he added.

When testifying before a House subcommittee on June 3, 2024, Fauci told lawmakers, “With respect to his recent testimony before this Subcommittee, I knew nothing of Dr. Morens’s actions regarding Dr. Daszak, EcoHealth, or his emails.”

“It is important to point out for the record that, despite his title, functionally Dr. Morens was not an adviser to me on institute policy or other substantive issues,” he added.

Other messages in the diary, however, highlighted how Fauci was speaking with Morens and Jeffery Taubenberger, who became the acting NIAID head last year under President Trump, about the importance of “systemic vaccination” for the US populace.

Emails that later led to Morens’ indictment — and which were first reported by The Post — revealed in May 2024 that the former NIAID director had “back channel” talks with Morens and allegedly passed on information about EcoHealth Alliance’s $4 million grant that included funding for the WIV.

“There are things I can’t say except Tony is aware and I have learned that there are ongoing efforts within NIH to steer this through with minimal damage to you, Peter, and colleagues, and to NIH and NIAID,” Morens wrote to EcoHealth President Peter Daszak on April 26, 2020, email from a private account.
Waveney · M
This is a witch hunt.

Despite years of aggressive probes, thousands of subpoenaed documents, and hours of testimony, a GOP-led subcommittee explicitly found no evidence directly linking Fauci to personal wrongdoing or corruption.

Fact.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@trollslayer We are all waiting to hear which State or Congressional district you profess to vote
trollslayer · 51-55, M
@sunsporter1649 does it matter? 97%of trump supported candidates won their primaries. The only way to vote for a non idol worshipping cultist is to not vote GOP. I vote for those who pledge allegiance to the USA, not to Trump.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

 
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