EXCLUSIVE: Biden pardon won't shield Fauci if he lies to Congress, Comer says

EXCLUSIVE: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is informing Dr. Anthony Fauci that his statesmanlike pardon has limits up of nan erstwhile nationalist wellness official's high-profile time connected Capitol Hill.

Fauci is group to attest earlier a GOP-led Senate sheet connected Wednesday, days aft hundreds of pages of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary entries were made public.

"We now cognize why President Biden gave a broad pardon to Dr. Fauci. While obsessing astir his ain fame, Dr. Fauci wasn't truthful pinch nan American group astir nan origins of COVID and advised schools to beryllium closed," Comer told Fox News Digital.

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"Americans are still reaping nan consequences of Dr. Fauci's actions. Biden's pardon doesn't screen Dr. Fauci's grounds this week and if he continues to lie, he must beryllium held accountable."

Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies earlier nan House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee connected nan Coronavirus Pandemic astatine nan Rayburn House Office Building successful Washington, D.C., connected June 3, 2024.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fauci was among respective recipients of arguable "preemptive pardons" by erstwhile President Joe Biden made during nan last hours of nan Democratic administration.

The pardon covers immoderate offenses from January 1, 2014, done its rumor date, aliases thing related "to his work arsenic Director of nan National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, arsenic a personnel of nan White House Coronavirus Task Force aliases nan White House COVID-19 Response Team, aliases arsenic Chief Medical Advisor to nan President."

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Because nan pardon covers behaviour during his authorities service, location will apt beryllium immoderate statement complete whether it would protect him from liability stemming from his testimony.

But different House Republicans are besides accusing Fauci of behaving successful a measurement that hurts public spot successful U.S. health, including nan co-chairs of nan House GOP Doctors' Caucus — some of whom are physicians themselves.

Rep. James Comer arrives astatine nan U.S. Capitol successful Washington, D.C., connected June 10, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

"Dr. Fauci, enamored pinch his ain fame and vanity, put authorities supra subject during nan pandemic. He is chiefly responsible for nan resulting multi-generational erosion of spot successful American medicine," Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told Fox News Digital. "A cleanable illustration of ego destroying immoderate achievements he had anterior to nan pandemic."

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Rep. John Joyce, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital that Fauci "must beryllium held accountable" by nan House arsenic good arsenic nan Senate.

"The merchandise of Dr. Fauci's diary entries validates what galore Americans suspected each along: he was not honorable astir nan origins of COVID-19," Joyce said. "His fixation connected preserving his ain image and maintaining a position of powerfulness eroded nationalist trust, undermined nan integrity of our nationalist wellness institutions, and grounded nan American people."

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., grilled chap Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., astatine nan commencement of his information hearing. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Diary entries made nationalist by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a longtime Fauci professional and chair of nan committee earlier which Fauci is appearing connected Wednesday, show nan high-profile expert reflecting connected his pandemic-era fame and raising questions astir the disease's origins.

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Some entries look to show Fauci taking in installments for influencing policies that closed schools during nan pandemic, thing that has go 1 of nan astir hotly debated aspects of really nan authorities handled COVID.

He told nan House Oversight Committee successful January 2024, however, "I did not adjacent nan schools."

Fauci has agelong denied immoderate wrongdoing and alternatively has based on that he's been made a governmental target by group connected nan correct who are captious of really governments handled COVID-19.