Dr. Anthony Fauci, left, former director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is due to testify Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The committee’s chairman, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, right, is a long-time Fauci critic. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)
By Michael Schwarz July 27, 2026 at 10:45am
Ironically, former President Joe Biden might have harmed his fellow establishment tool, Anthony Fauci.
According to Just the News, Fauci, the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director and the public face of the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, likely will face intense grilling from Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky when he testifies under subpoena in front of Paul’s Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday morning.
Indeed, Biden’s last-minute pardon of Fauci, on Biden’s last day in office in 2025, will prevent the Machiavellian tyrant from pleading the Fifth Amendment.
“The biggest danger for him at this point won’t be some sort of substantive crime,” former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty told Newsmax in a Jan. 21, 2025, interview, as Just the News noted. “It would be false statements. He’s already given inconsistent statements over the years. So getting him to kind of rehash that could lead to some exposure.”
Trusty added that while he does not care for perjury traps, it would be “interesting to see guys like Fauci, who have no Fifth Amendment privilege, having to endure some serious questioning.”
Paul, of course, has long regarded Fauci as guilty of lying to Congress and covering up the origin of the COVID-19 virus.
In fact, the Kentucky senator has all but begged the Department of Justice to indict the former bureaucrat.
In April, the DOJ did indict former Fauci senior advisor David M. Morens and charged him with “conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal, or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.”
Elsewhere, some have suggested that Fauci could face indictment at the state level.
Meanwhile, evidence against Fauci has continued to mount.
Last month, for instance, outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released documents proving, in her words, that Fauci “provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology” in China and then later lied about it to Congress.
Gabbard’s document dump also showed that Biden administration officials took unusual steps to shield Fauci from scrutiny.
Alas, that same institutional arrogance has endured at President Donald Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency.
Finally, on Saturday, Paul released the remarkable contents of Fauci’s pandemic diary. On a near-daily basis, the self-obsessed bureaucrat took “meticulous notes” about the day’s developments, including his sudden fame and cozy relationship with the establishment media.
Biden, of course, had long since suffered severe cognitive decline before granting Fauci’s pardon as he prepared to leave the White House.
Likewise, the validity of documents Biden signed via autopen remains an open question. Trump has effectively declared those documents inoperative, at least from his perspective.
Then again, the Trump administration has not taken any meaningful, practical, and visible action that would invalidate the Biden pardons and potentially lead to Fauci’s arrest.
Thus, conservatives eager for justice will likely have to settle for watching Fauci squirm amid Paul’s relentless grilling.
After all, thanks to Biden’s pardon, the dishonest and narcissistic former bureaucrat will have nowhere to hide.
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Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.
Michael Schwarz holds a Ph.D. in History and has taught at multiple colleges and universities. He has published one book and numerous essays on Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and the Early U.S. Republic. He loves dogs, baseball, and freedom. After meandering spiritually through most of early adulthood, he has rediscovered his faith in midlife and is eager to continue learning about it from the great Christian thinkers.
