Outgoing US President Joe Biden has issued a presidential pardon to Dr Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley and the committee that was investigating the January 6, 2020 mob attack on the US Capitol, barely hours before exiting office.
Dr Anthony Fauci was facing allegations of perjury, and lying under oath. US Senator Rand Paul has been calling for formal charges against Fauci for the same.
NEW: Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and members of Congress and staff who served on the Jan. 6 Select Committee, as well as police officers who testified before the committee. pic.twitter.com/AN3bN1zg54
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Dr Fauci, during a senate hearing on May 11, 2021, had told under oath that the NIH never carried out gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Fauci’s claims were later found to be false.
In December 2024, A 520-page report released by a select subcommittee in the House of Representatives in the US Congress has clearly stated that the ‘lab leak’ hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory and there is significant reason to argue that the coronavirus pandemic was indeed originated from a laboratory accident.
The report also confirmed that the US government’s National Institute of Health carried out gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in the BS4 laboratory at Wuhan Institute of Virology, China.
General Mark Milley has been facing wide criticism, including a statement from President-elect Donald Trump that his actions of allegedly assuring his Chinese counterpart of no military action from the USA during the transition period between Biden and Trump administrations amount to treason and deserve the death penalty.
