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Exclusive | Pressure on DOJ to prosecute Anthony Fauci grows after adviser indicted—with days left to charge COVID ‘lies’

Nypost · · 1272 words · By Steven Nelson
Legal Status of Government Officials (Fauci/Biden) Accountability for COVID-19 Origins
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20 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“The indictment of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s former adviser David Morens Tuesday revived calls for the Justice Department to prosecute Fauci himself for allegedly lying to Congress about funding risky research in China before the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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Multiple web search results report that the indictment of David Morens, a former adviser to Dr. Fauci, has revived calls for the Department of Justice to investigate or prosecute Fauci for alleged lies to Congress regarding risky research funding in China. The evidence explicitly links the indictment to renewed calls for action against Fauci.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Bibb Graves (April 1, 1873 – March 14, 1942) was an American Democratic politician and the 38th governor of Alabama 1927–1931 and 1935–1939, the first Alabama governor to serve two four-year ter…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibb_Graves
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David M. Morens is an American physician-scientist, medical historian and former Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). A career officer i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Morens
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington
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“Just two weeks remain before the five-year legal deadline on May 11 to indict Fauci for denying under oath that he funded “gain of function” experiments that modified bat coronaviruses in the same city where the pandemic started.”
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The claim specifies a precise legal deadline (May 11) and a timeframe ('Just two weeks remain') which is highly time-sensitive and appears to be derived from a specific news report. While the general topics (Fauci, gain-of-function, funding) are covered by multiple sources, the specific deadline and countdown are not corroborated by the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthony Stephen Fauci ( FOW-chee; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fauci is a 2021 American documentary film, directed and produced by John Hoffman and Janet Tobias, and produced by Alexandra Moss. It follows the life and career of Anthony Fauci. Liz Garbus serves as…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauci_(film)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health is a 2021 book by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which he denounces Anthony Fauci and his leadership of the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Anthony_Fauci
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“Morens, 78, was charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations and two counts of concealment, removal, or mutilation of records relating to the origins of COVID-19.”
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The evidence confirms that David M. Morens is a former Senior Advisor to the NIAID and an American physician-scientist. While the specific charges (conspiracy, destruction/alteration/falsification, etc.) are detailed in the claim, the provided web search results confirm the indictment and the nature of his role, lending strong support to the core facts of the charge and his background.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A COVID‑19 vaccine is a vaccine designed to induce immunity against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). COVID-19 vaccines help reduce the risk of severe illness,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David M. Morens is an American physician-scientist, medical historian and former Senior Advisor to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). A career officer i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Morens
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A universal coronavirus vaccine, also known as a pan-coronavirus vaccine, is a theoretical coronavirus vaccine that would be effective against all coronavirus strains. A universal vaccine would provid…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_coronavirus_vaccine
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“Trump told The Post in a phone interview on March 31 that he intended to “look into” Fauci’s status and Republicans say they believe acting attorney general Todd Blanche, who is seeking the role permanently, might be willing to test Trump’s assertion that former President Joe Biden’s preemptive autopen pardons, including for Fauci, are invalid.”
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The claim details specific statements made by Trump regarding a March 31 phone interview and the involvement of acting AG Todd Blanche. While the evidence provides multiple web search results detailing Trump's statements and investigations into Biden's pardons, the specific combination of the March 31 date, the 'look into' Fauci's status, and the role of Todd Blanche testing the autopen pardon invalidity is not independently corroborated by multiple sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthony Stephen Fauci ( FOW-chee; born December 24, 1940) is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Joseph Clay Kent (born April 11, 1980) is an American politician, former United States Army warrant officer, and former Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer who served as the director of t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kent
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of notable American non-officeholders that endorsed Donald Trump for the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Donald_Trump_2024_pres…
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“Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), to whom Fauci allegedly lied, told The Post that “we’ve been looking through a lot of information on this for the last year or so. The Trump administration has been much more forthcoming than the Biden administration ever was.””
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The claim attributes a specific quote regarding the relative transparency of the Trump vs. Biden administrations to Senator Rand Paul. While multiple sources confirm Rand Paul's involvement in criticizing the Biden administration and discussing government transparency, the exact quote and comparison provided in the claim are not independently corroborated by the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and California junior senator Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent R…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidentia…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is the chair of the Senat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Paul
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump, serving as the 45th president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired. On that date, the House of Representatives ad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_impeachment_of_Donald_T…
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““On Anthony Fauci’s case, we think lying to Congress is one felony,” Paul said in an interview on Tuesday. “We also think that destroying federal records and advising others to destroy federal records is also a felony. So I think there’s opportunity there… There was a vast both organized and unorganized conspiracy to cover up the fact that the US government was funding the research that led to the pandemic.””
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Multiple web search results confirm that Senator Rand Paul has stated that lying to Congress and destroying federal records are felonies. Furthermore, these sources confirm his argument that there was a vast conspiracy to cover up US government funding of research leading to the pandemic.
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web search NEUTRAL — "Senator Rand Paul has now done the same under President Trump's DOJ, and Pam Bondi is doing absolutely nothing with it," posted Brian Eastwood on X, capturing the frustration of millions of Americans…
https://nextnewsnetwork.com/2026/01/13/broken-promise-rand-p…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lying to Congress is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. Referrals to the DOJ by members of Congress are non-binding and often lead to nothing. Paul argued that there’s no question that…
https://www.rt.com/usa/529874-fauci-criminal-referral-perjur…
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web search NEUTRAL — Kentucky GOP Senator Rand Paul is urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to bring charges against former senior national health advisor Anthony Fauci, accusing him of lying to Congress while requestin…
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/paul-urges-doj-to-test-faucis-…
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“Trump said in December that Biden was so mentally diminished that he was either unable to authorize autopen pardons or that his staff did so without his knowledge — setting the stage for potential legal test-cases.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Trump has discussed investigations into Biden's mental acuity and the use of autopen pardons, suggesting that Biden was potentially unable to authorize them or that his staff acted without his full knowledge.
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web search NEUTRAL — What did Trump order? Trump directed his White House counsel and attorney general to begin an investigation into his own allegations that Biden aides hid from the public declining mental acuity in the…
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-investigation-autopen…
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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into former President Joe Biden and his aides, accusing the latter of concealing Biden's "serious cognitive decline" and abusing the power ...
https://time.com/7291354/trump-orders-investigation-into-bid…
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web search NEUTRAL — President Trump is ordering an investigation into whether former President Joe Biden used an autopen to sign key documents like pardons.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-investigation-biden-autop…
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“Biden claimed to the New York Times last year that he was aware [of the autopen pardons].”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Biden spoke to The New York Times regarding the pardons. Specifically, sources indicate that he admitted he did not individually sign off on every pardon, though he did provide criteria to his staff.
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web search NEUTRAL — Former President Joe Biden admitted to the New York Times that he did not individually sign off on each of the pardons issued via his autopen signature to batches of criminals at the end of his term, …
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/14/biden-tells-ne…
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web search NEUTRAL — The next day, Biden spoke to the New York Times by phone in an apparent effort to get in front of the autopen scandal even though it left the station months ago. The roughly 10-minute interview didn't…
https://www.theblaze.com/news/biden-tried-defending-autopen-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In an interview with The New York Times, Mr. Biden said that he had orally granted all the pardons and commutations issued at the end of his term, calling President Trump and other Republicans “liars”…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-…
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“Fauci served as Biden’s chief medical adviser in 2021 and 2022...”
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Although Anthony Fauci's role as a chief medical adviser is widely known, the provided evidence sections for this claim returned zero results, making it impossible to verify the specific dates (2021 and 2022) using the provided evidence set.
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“On his final full day in office, Biden issued the auto-pen pardon to Fauci for “any offenses” dating to 2014.”
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The evidence search for this claim returned zero results, making it impossible to verify the specific details of the auto-pen pardon issued to Fauci for 'any offenses' dating to 2014 using the provided evidence set.
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“The [National Institutes of Health] and [National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases] categorically has not funded gain of function research to be conducted in the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Fauci said at a Senate committee hearing on May 11, 2021, during a tense exchange with Paul.”
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“At a July 20, 2021, hearing Fauci testified “I do not retract that statement” and angrily pointing his finger at Paul, shouting, “if anybody’s lying here, senator, it is you!””
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“Documents published in late 2021 by The Intercept revealed that the EcoHealth Alliance used grants from Fauci’s agency to fund Wuhan experiments that modified three bat coronaviruses distinct from COVID-19.”
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“The research found viruses became much more infectious among “humanized” mice when human-type receptors were added to them.”
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“Records revealed that the NIAID, which Fauci led between 1984 and 2022, in 2014 awarded EcoHealth $3.1 million in multiyear grants for “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence,” of which $750,000 flowed to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
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““They twice submitted summaries of their work that showed that, when in the lungs of genetically engineered mice, three altered bat coronaviruses at times reproduced far more quickly than the original virus on which they were based,” The Intercept revealed.”
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“NIH principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak confessed in 2024 at a House committee hearing that the US government funded gain of function research in Wuhan.”
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““Dr. Tabak, did NIH fund gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology through EcoHealth?” asked Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.). “It depends on your definition of gain-of-function research,” Tabak answered. “If you’re speaking about the generic term, yes, we did.””
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“The origins of COVID-19 remain a mystery due to the Chinese government’s refusal to allow an independent international investigation.”
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“Some parts of the US government believe the pandemic emerged with a lab leak in China.”
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