Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment over 100 times when subpoenaed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee on pandemic response and COVID-19 origins (late July 2026). Biden's preemptive pardon does not cover new offenses or state crimes, leaving Fauci vulnerable to Florida and other state prosecutions threatened by Republican senators.
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Republicans have argued that the pre-emptive pardon Dr. Fauci received from former President Biden ought to preclude him from invoking the Fifth Amendment. But the pardon applies only to what happened before it was issued.
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President Trump said Wednesday he respects former President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci, after the retired health official invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times during a Senate hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic. “The most powerful thing a president has, they say, is the power of pardon,” Trump told reporters in the Oval...
Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment repeatedly when subpoenaed by the Senate Homeland Security Committee to discuss the pandemic response and COVID-19 origins. www.rawstory.com/anthony-fauc... President Donald Trump's campaign to void former President Biden's pardons has backfired by giving Dr. Anthony Fauci legal justification to refuse testimony at a Senate hearing, according to pro-Trump...
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