New: Desperate Fauci Emailed Biden for Pardon on Inauguration Morning

Sometimes, there's just so much smoke; you know there's got to be a fire there somewhere. Such would seem to be the case with the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been ducking and weaving frantically to avoid various investigations and inquiries ever since Joe Biden shambled out of the White House.

RedState's own Susie Moore reported on Fauci's latest woes earlier on Friday:

Susie writes:

Thursday was Tulsi Gabbard's last day as the Director of National Intelligence, as she departs the Trump administration to address her husband's battle with bone cancer. While the tussle over her replacement proceeds, Gabbard made a point on her way out the door to continue the push for transparency, exposing something most people who were paying attention during the COVID-19 pandemic (and not sporting partisan blinders) have long believed true: Dr. Anthony Fauci, former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), sits at the heart of an insidious cover-up regarding the origins of the virus and the dangerous research that led to it, which he helped fund and direct.

Now, we learn, through independent journalist Nick Shirley, speaking with the United States Pardon Attorney, Edward R. Martin Jr., that Dr. Fauci was frantically pardon-shopping on his way out the door.

🚨 According to the current Pardon Attorney of the US, Anthony Fauci was begging for a pardon literally minutes before the change of powers on January 20th.

On the morning of the inauguration Fauci was emailing the Biden Administration for a pardon. What crimes did Fauci commit? https://t.co/igzrtBNNrl pic.twitter.com/9DoNftx6p5
— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) June 19, 2026

Here's how that conversation went:

Nick Shirley (NS): You're the United States Pardon Attorney.
Pardon Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. (PA): Yes.
NS: Just before Biden left office, maybe a few hours before, he starts signing a lot of pardons.
PA: Correct. Well, sort of. The autopen started signing a lot of pardons. Go ahead.
NS: And one of those people was Anthony Fauci.
PA: Yes.
NS: What's the truth about Anthony Fauci's pardon?
PA: Well, one thing you started out, let me just explain to folks, the pardon power is in the Constitution, and it basically says, I'm summarizing, the president can pardon anybody he wants for any reason he wants. There's not a procedure set up, there's not a system, it's really a very... the Founders knew that there were times you needed to right something that was wrong, or that you wanted, and that's what they gave. So, is there anything that you... Any president can pardon anybody with regard to the end of a term, Biden was in a rush down the stretch, or his staff was, and they were pardoning all kinds of people. They did all kinds of commutations at the last minute, all with the autopen.

The fact that this was done with the autopen, of course, casts some serious doubt on all of these pardons and commutations. The conversation continues:

PA: The only signature on pardons that you see with a wet pen, is Hunter Biden, which was signed at Thanksgiving, all the rest are autopen, which begs another question. But, most importantly, you can see, and these are email exchanges where, uh, Dr. Fauci's lawyers were saying, "will there be pardons for Fauci," and in the morning of January 20th, just in time for the change of the presidency, Fauci got his pardon, and you have to accept that under American law, the one thing the Supreme Court has said is that you have to accept the pardon. So, Fauci immediately had his lawyers say I accept the pardon, and sent that in. So they were very aware they needed that, and they wanted it.

That's the interesting part: Dr. Fauci's lawyers seemed pretty determined, even desperate, to get that pardon signed and accepted before Donald Trump walked back into the Oval Office.

Now, as we know, that pardon power is pretty near absolute, and cannot be revoked. That's by design.

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It's the autopen angle that's troubling. The Department of Justice's Pardon Attorney made a point of mentioning that. Autopen signatures have, in the past, generally been used for ceremonial documents, letters of recognition, and so forth. Not for official documents with the force of law, like pardons.

This makes it unclear whether Joe Biden, in the last hours of his presidency, even knew these pardons were being signed in his name; but then, there was almost certainly a lot that Joe Biden didn't know what was going on, so long as he got his afternoon pudding cup and his nap.

There's probably not a lot that can be done about this. Presidential pardons are pretty absolute, and the only way this could be undone - maybe - would be for Joe Biden to announce, "I didn't sign this, and I don't approve of it," which seems stunningly unlikely.

But Dr. Fauci's reputation suffers every time one of these issues comes to light - and that's not nothing.

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