Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has stated that Congress will uncover “the truth” after now-former President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons of numerous criminals in the government.
On January 20, just a few hours before leaving office, Biden issued preemptive pardons to former Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Retired Gen. Mark Milley, disgraced former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director Anthony Fauci, and the members of the January 6 Committee — claiming that he was protecting these “dedicated, selfless public servants” from President Donald Trump, and asserting that they were “the lifeblood of our democracy.”
“These public servants have served our nation with honor and distinction and do not deserve to be the targets of unjustified and politically motivated prosecutions,” Biden’s statement reads, in part.
Referring to Fauci, Biden claimed that he “saved countless lives by managing the government’s response to pressing health crises, including HIV/AIDS, as well as the Ebola and Zika viruses,” claiming that Fauci helped the country “tackle a once-in-a-century pandemic.”
Roy fired back after the preemptive pardons were announced, arguing that Congress needed to “demand the truth” about these pardoned officials’ actions. Like many other conservatives, Roy pointed out that the “implication” behind these preemptive pardons was they “they needed” a pardon for their crimes — rather than the Democrats’ narrative that Biden was just protecting them from persecution from the Trump administration.
“Implication is that they needed the pardons… So, let’s call them all before Congress and demand the truth,” the Republican congressman argued.
“If they refuse or lie – let’s test the constitutional ‘reach’ of these pardons with regard to their future actions,” Roy added.
Implication is that they needed the pardons… So, let’s call them all before Congress and demand the truth. If they refuse or lie – let’s test the constitutional “reach” of these pardons with regard to their future actions. https://t.co/Cu12JRTFhg
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) January 20, 2025
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) responded to Roy’s post, writing: “Absolutely.”
“But one of the reasons bureaucrats behave badly in the first place is because Congress has failed to wield its oversight and spending authority effectively,” he added.
Absolutely.
But one of the reasons bureaucrats behave badly in the first place is because Congress has failed to wield its oversight and spending authority effectively. https://t.co/hLtp8BhozW
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) January 20, 2025
Meanwhile, it is obvious to any sane American that Fauci is guilty of crimes. In an interview with Breitbart News Saturday earlier this month, author Andrew Huff pointed out that a preemptive pardon for Fauci would incriminate everyone — noting that accepting the pardon is “admission of guilty of the crimes.”
“At best, Dr Fauci is guilty of 25 million counts of negligent criminal homicide,” Huff explained. “So they knew that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was a leaky lab, but they allowed the research to go on. They illegally exported the technology. They didn’t have the proper safety controls in place from a risk management perspective on the United States side and with the contractors involved with this research,” the author of The Truth About Wuhan: How I Uncovered the Biggest Lie in History explained, arguing that all of his actions were illegal.
“So in U.S. law, if the president issues a pardon to someone, and the person accepts the pardon, it’s an admission of guilt of the crimes. And if you look at all the individuals involved with the cover up, the export of this technology, that is a violation of the RICO Act,” Huff added.
“And you can use, you know, basically the same kind of criminal process and prosecution that they use against mobsters to go after someone like Anthony Fauci and all his conspirators,” he continued. “So even if they pardon Anthony Fauci, if he accepts the pardon, it then incriminates everyone involved in the RICO, and they’re all guilty
“So you know, if they go and they pardon Anthony Fauci with a blanket pardon, [if] he accepts it, well, he condemns everyone else in the government who’s — who is involved in this operation,” he predicted.
