why was Dr. Fauci pardoned? What did he do wrong?

[CTyankee]

[leftieNanner]

1. To protect him

From the vindictive son of a bitch.

Dr. Fauci did nothing wrong. You are correct about that.

[tintinvotes]

2. Haha

You're joking right?

[Rebl2]

32. What do you

mean by that? No it is not a joke.

[Blues Heron]

3. Nothing, think of it as an innoculation against persecution

[John Farmer]

37. You never know about you-know-who.

[Alephy]

4. Nothing

Most of these pardons were done so the incoming administration does not unjustly go after them.

[Paladin]

5. Seriously?

Thank you, President Biden, for providing protection to those in serious need of it.

[Faux pas]

6. Nothing

I'm pretty sure it's to keep the hump and company from hunting him down. He has been a hump target since the hump effed up the covid response.

[Lovie777]

7. He saved a whole lot of lives....

and shithole did not want that.

[GreenWave]

26. Exactly. They wanted to profit off quack remedies.

[Ocelot II]

8. He didn't do anything wrong. It was a pre-emptive pardon

to prevent Trump's goons from trying to prosecute him and the members of the 1/6 Committee, as they have threatened to do, even though they committed no crime. Biden said, "I believe in the rule of law, and I am optimistic that the strength of our legal institutions will ultimately prevail over politics. But these are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing. Baseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety, and financial security of targeted individuals and their families. Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances."

[Silent Type]

9. Nothing, but pardoning him keeps trump from making good on threatening him and others. All for the pardons.

[Mike 03]

10. Unbelievable.

I'm not referring to the pre-emptive pardon, but rather the post.

[CTyankee]

39. Well, thank you for your kind remark. You are helping show how we are kinder, gentler people than the Republicans.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Biden's text explaining that Fauci, and the others, did nothing wrong can be read here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143376447

I'd link directly, but the toddler-in-chief has been wiping all things Biden from whitehouse.gov.

[Irish_Dem]

13. He was an exemplary lifelong public servant.

He dedicated his career to safeguarding American health.

This is his crime.

[33taw]

14. He promotes the Trump vaccine.

[Think. Again.]

15. No one has to do anything wrong to be targetted by the trump administration.

This is his second term, we should all know that by now.

[J_William_Ryan]

16. "To protect him from the vindictive son of a bitch."

Exactly.

Persecuting perceived enemies is what fascist regimes do.

[hlthe2b]

17. HE DID NOTHING WRONG--BUT EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO PROTECT AMERICANS!

Sorry to scream but just asking this (and I know you are just asking) makes me crazy.

Biden did everything HE could do to protect Fauci and the others from Trump's dictatorial efforts to harm them by unjust, unwarranted yet $$$$costly investigations for the targeted and to protect them from the potential violence that such unlawful prosecutions could incite.

[GoCubsGo]

18. To protect him from financial ruin.

Trump, no doubt, wants to bankrupt Dr. Fauci by dragging him through the courts, and forcing him to have to pay for lawyers, while Trump will have his thugs in the DOJ working for him on the taxpayers' dime.

Trump has always been a HUGE fan of SLAPP lawsuits, and this is just another iteration of that: Strategic lawsuits against public participation, or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. In a typical SLAPP, the plaintiff does not normally expect to win the lawsuit.

[Eugene]

19. Empty Greene and other right wingers called for Fauci to be tried for vaguely specified "crimes against humanity."

Those "crimes" include damaging the economy by recommending lockdowns.
Marge also accuses home of causing literally millions of deaths (without evidence of course).
The far fringe also accuses him of covering for China among other claims
from the Q-adjacent fever swamp.

The pardon cuts both ways. It heads off a witch hunt, but it also gives
the crazies something to point out.

EDIT: (I almost forgot). The MAGA nuts have also tried to scapegoat Fauci for the "bungled"
COVID response continued by the Biden administration.

[CTyankee]

40. Thank you for your post. It explains a lot to me.

[Ritabert]

20. Fauci didn't kiss Trump's ring

That's all it took to get on Trump's bad side.

[Happy Hoosier]

21. Just avoiding the time and expense of a defense.

The MAGAts are going to hurt whoever they can.

[elleng]

22. He did nothing wrong. THAT is why he was pardoned.

[2naSalit]

23. Here...

Watch this brief explanation, it gets specific about the language in the pardons that may surprise you.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/132256973

[Jacson6]

24. There is a Qanon & Maga Conspiracy theory that he helped the Chinese to create COVID.

This is to preempt any criminal charges that the Oligarchs may want to charge him with. An investigation of him alone would cost Fauci a lot of money in attorney fees.

[Amishman]

38. That one started with spin artist and con man Tucker Carlson

And like most of his more dangerous lies, it starts with the tiniest nugget of truth.

Carlson is a gifted con man, and takes a tiny thread of truth and weaves it into a tapestry of lies.

Dr. Fauci was the top man as NIH at the same time as a grant was given to a US group called EcoHealth Alliance. EcoHealth Alliance separately contributed a small amount to gain of function research at the Wuhan lab that was doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.

Fauci was not personally involved in the grant, the grant was not directly to the lab, and the amount contributed to the lab was much smaller than the amount of the grant. 'Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon' type connections.

But the lunatic fringe now firmly believes that Fauci personally funded the creation of covid.

[Blue_Tires]

25. He had committed the Holy Trinity of Trumpworld sins

1. He was competent at his job...

2. He believed in scientific evidence instead of disinformation or parroting the party line, which made Dear Leader look like a clueless idiot more than usual...

3. Most unforgivable of all, Fauci wouldn't bow and sacrifice himself at the altar of Dear Leader's ego, which already makes him more honorable than 65 percent of the country...

Y'all should have believed Donnie and Elmer and the rest of the kiddie fascist treehouse when they said reprisals were coming for "political enemies" and anyone else disloyal to the new regime. Donnie has been furiously jerking himself off for years at the dream of being an "American Putin" and now it's a reality. 👎

[Initech]

28. He also goes against what their lord and savior Rupert Murdoch wants.

[Initech]

27. MAGA fuckheads want bloody revenge for 2020. Fauci is the top target.

[surfered]

30. Fauci did nothing criminal, but the GOP thinks

He covered up the leak of the deadly virus from a Chinese bio weapons laboratory, although it was no worse than the flu, for which Trump made a vaccine possible that they then refused to take.

Please try to keep up.

[Rebl2]

33. So is

Cheney.

[brush]

29. Just in case trump and the rethugs try to prosecute him in the future.

Joe knows what thugs they are. MTG has spoken out several times about going after Dr. Fauci.

[Peregrine Took]

31. I read he was grateful for it and thanked Biden. He was a particular target of MAGA and I think he was worried.

Glad he's safe.

[Patton French]

34. Nothing, which is the whole point.

NT

[JustAnotherGen]

35. Nothing

None of the people he pardoned did. It's a preemptive action against Bondi and Patel.

[Emile]

36. The Orange Fascist had plans to go after him for

making him look like a fool four years ago. Don't you know that?