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On his way out of the White House on January 20, Joe Biden issued a statement praising Dr. Anthony Fauci, who “saved countless lives by managing the government’s response to pressing health crises, including HIV/AIDS, as well as the Ebola and Zika viruses. During his tenure as my Chief Medical Advisor, he helped the country tackle a once-in-a-century pandemic. The United States is safer and healthier because of him.” The reader might think Dr. Fauci was getting an award, but that was not the case.
The Delaware Democrat exercised his authority “to pardon” Dr. Fauci, but the issuance of the pardon “should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt of any offense.”
Pardons are normally issued for crimes, and Dr. Fauci provided evidence in his handling of the Covid pandemic, a joint operation.
Dr. Fauci funded Communist China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to perform dangerous gain-of-function research – once banned in the U.S. – that makes viruses more lethal and transmissible. Dr. Fauci lied to Congress about funding the WIV and Sen. Rand Paul, author of Deception: The Great Covid Cover-up, made two criminal referrals to the Biden Department of Justice, which took no action. Biden’s pardon might refer to that crime, but Dr. Fauci’s 50-year-plus career in government offers other possibilities.
Dr. Fauci’s bio showed no advanced degrees in molecular biology or biochemistry, but in 1984 the NIH made him head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Nobel laureate Kary Mullis, inventor of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, was on record saying that Dr. Fauci “doesn’t understand electron microscopy and he doesn’t understand medicine. He should not be in a position like he’s in.” That reality would quickly become evident.
Dr. Fauci’s drug of choice to treat AIDS was AZT (azidothymidine, Zidovudine), a DNA chain terminator rejected for cancer treatment because of excessive toxicity. Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) provided funding for the Incarnation Children’s Center (ICC) in New York as an outpatient clinic for HIV-positive children. The city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) offered up children under its care, nearly all black for Hispanic, for secretive drug experimentation. The BBC told the story in the 2004 documentary Guinea Pig Kids.
As biochemist Dr. David Rasnick explained, “cocktails” of powerful drugs were forced on the children. Rasnick described Didanosine as “very dangerous” and Nevirapine as “dangerous and debilitating. . . horrible and painful and also lethal.” The children were also given AZT, which failed to prevent or cure AIDS.
In her 1995 The Search for an AIDS Vaccine, NIH nurse Christine Grady calls AZT “a boon to research” and approves of drug trials on children and pregnant women. On the other hand Grady does not reveal that she was married to Dr. Fauci for 10 years. In 2012, when the NIH made Grady chief of the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, they failed to mention her book and marriage to Dr. Fauci, a conflict of interest for the ages. If Tony ever did anything with which Christine disagreed, it’s hard to know what it might be.
In The Real Anthony Fauci, Robert F. Kennedy showed how Fauci’s NIAID also conducts drug trials in Africa, where subjects may be unaware of adverse consequences and less likely to draw attention from American journalists. Africans may also be unaware that NIAID officials get royalties from the drugs approved in their trials.
During the Covid pandemic, Dr. Fauci recommended untested vaccines even for children, the least vulnerable group. As Rebecca Culshaw showed in The Real AIDS Epidemic, the rush to approve allegedly “lifesaving” mRNA vaccines “was essentially a massive clinical trial conducted in real time on the entire population.”
Pfizer wanted 75 years before revealing the contents of their highly profitable Covid vaccines. A judge forced the company to release the information, now compiled by Naomi Wolf in The Pfizer Papers. As Bruce Bawer notes, this could be the “Crime of the Century.”
With his pardon of Fauci, Biden intends to remove all possibility of punishment, quite possibly the worst travesty of justice in American history. Congress should challenge Biden’s pardon all the way to the Supreme Court. While that plays out, the Trump administration should launch strikes against Fauci’s allies and network, still firmly in place.
Dr. Fauci allegedly retired in 2022 but continued to receive a government security detail, which President Trump recently canceled. Trump’s pick to head the NIH is Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration targeted by Fauci during the pandemic. If confirmed, Dr. Bhattacharya should fire Christine Grady and current NIAID boss Jeanne Marrazzo, a faithful Fauci disciple and DEI promoter.
Cut back on NIAID and limit the director to a single four-year term, with all grants posted on the internet in real time. Ending white coat supremacy will be a huge victory for the people in 2025 and beyond.
