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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he will reissue his criminal referral against Anthony Fauci.
The Kentucky Republican made the announcement following a report claiming Fauci’s pardon from Joe Biden was signed by autopen at the direction of an assistant.
Today I will reissue my criminal referral of Anthony Fauci to Trump DOJ! https://t.co/trIhJHAOlx
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 14, 2025
Paul filed a criminal referral against Fauci in 2023, claiming the former NIAID director’s emails about gain-of-function research directly contradicted his congressional testimony.
Fox News wrote in 2023:
Paul pointed to an email from February 2020 in which Fauci detailed a call with British medical researcher Jeremy Farrar, who was director of the Wellcome Trust at the time. According to Fauci, those on the task-force call, including Francis Collins, former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and other “highly credible” scientists with expertise in evolutionary biology, expressed concern about the “fact upon viewing the sequences of several isolates of the nCoV, there were mutations in the virus that would be most unusual to have evolved naturally in the bats and that there was a suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.”
“The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan,” Fauci wrote, according to a screenshot of the newly unredacted email shared by RealClearPolitics White House reporter Philip Wegmann.
“This directly contradicts everything he said in committee hearing to me, denying absolutely that they funded any gain of function, and it’s absolutely a lie. That’s why I sent an official criminal referral to the DOJ,” Paul wrote on “X,” formerly known as Twitter, on Saturday.
In July 2021, Paul reminded Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and medical adviser to the president, that lying to Congress is a federal crime, suggesting that the NIAID director had done so with regard to COVID-19 gain-of-function research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.
🚨BREAKING: After it was confirmed that Fauci’s pardon was done with an auto pen, Republican Senator Rand Paul officially issued a CRIMINAL REFERRAL of Dr. Fauci to the DOJ.
We want justice. pic.twitter.com/fzPKxuAWck
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) July 14, 2025
Fauci received a pardon from Joe Biden just before his term concluded.
However, Republicans claim the pardons issued by Biden are illegitimate due to being signed by autopen.
🚨Just in: Dr. Fauci’s pardon was signed off by the White House aide Jeff Zients who used the president’s autopen signature
Via: The New York Times pic.twitter.com/ly7zQWMpaM
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) July 14, 2025
More info from Newsweek:
The newspaper said it had seen correspondence about the pardons and commutations in Biden’s final weeks of office in which the former president’s staff used an autopen.
Biden told the NYT in an interview that he had granted the pardons even if he did not personally sign the official warrants of those decisions.
When contacted for comment, White House spokesman Harrison Fields told Newsweek in a statement: “The same president who lied through his teeth to the American people for four years about everything from his health to the state of the economy should not be trusted again.”
The Department of Justice and the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee have opened investigations into Biden’s use of an autopen for pardon and clemency warrants near the end of his term and whether his officials covered up his mental decline.
President Donald Trump has said these pardons and commutations were illegitimate and showed how Biden’s staff ran the presidency in his name using the device
But Biden’s interview hits back at the accusations as he insisted he had consciously made pardons and that the use of the device was legitimate given the volume of signatures.