President Biden has issued a preemptive pardon to Anthony Fauci, Joint Chiefs of Staff of Mark Milley and members of the Congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6th attack on the Capitol. Fauci was the director of the National Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the Covid pandemic.
With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
President Biden noted that the "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing."
As one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden has granted pardons to several people who have faced threats of prosecution from Biden's political opponents. The post ‘The lifeblood of our democracy’: Biden issues last-minute pardons to Fauci,
Joe Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons for several high-profile figures whom Donald Trump has publicly spoken out against ahead of his Inauguration on Monday, Jan. 20
The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.
President Biden on Monday morning, just hours before President-elect Trump’s inauguration, announced pardons for Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and
The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”
The pardons by Biden came as incoming President Trump has repeatedly attacked Fauci, Milley and the Jan. 6 committee and called for prosecution of his enemies.
President Joe Biden issued a slew of pardons on Inauguration Day to preemptively protect people President-elect Donald Trump had threatened.
Dr. Fauci, one of the nation’s top health officials for decades, received death threats during the COVID-19 pandemic. He'll now hire his own security.