Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has renewed his efforts to hold Dr. Antony S. Fauci accountable and on Monday reissued his criminal referral to the Department of Justice.
A bombshell New York Times interview with Joe Biden opened a can of worms by confirming that the autopen signature used to sign off on critical documents was carried out by aides; unfortunately for Fauci, one of those documents was his controversial preventive pardon.
The Kentucky Republican shared a key portion of the Times report about the interview, revealing that it was former Chief of Staff Jeff Zients who authorized the last-minute pardon for the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), who also served as Biden’s top medical adviser.
Today I will reissue my criminal referral of Anthony Fauci to Trump DOJ! https://t.co/trIhJHAOlx
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 14, 2025
“Today I will reissue my criminal referral of Anthony Fauci to Trump DOJ!” Sen. Paul wrote in a post to X.
The senator previously referred the elfin career bureaucrat to the DOJ. In 2023, he issued an “official criminal referral” over Fauci’s lying to him during 2021 congressional testimony about the funding of dangerous gain-of-function research at the Chinese virology lab where it is believed that COVID originated from.
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. https://t.co/Y191SmMiIr
— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) July 29, 2023
“Perjury is a crime. And Fauci must be held accountable,” he wrote in another Monday X post. Lying to Congress could carry a penalty of up to five years in prison as well as criminal fines.
“In July 2023, I referred Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice for lying under oath to Congress. His own emails directly contradicted his sworn testimony,” Senator Paul said in a statement. “The New York Times reports Fauci was quietly pardoned by an autopen, operated by Biden’s staff. If the President didn’t authorize this pardon personally, then the Department has a duty to investigate and prosecute as it would any ordinary citizen. Fauci has been sainted by the extremist Left, but it doesn’t erase his lying before Congress.”
There is one big difference with a new criminal referral: this time, it’s not to the Biden Justice Department.
Paul later posted a copy of a Monday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi in which he renewed his requests for the DOJ to investigate Fauci.
In July 2023, I referred Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice for lying under oath to Congress. His own emails directly contradicted his sworn testimony.@NYT reports Fauci was quietly pardoned by an autopen, operated by Biden’s staff. If the President didn’t authorize… pic.twitter.com/j0wrt6QdoJ
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 14, 2025
“@NYT reports Fauci was quietly pardoned by an autopen, operated by Biden’s staff. If the President didn’t authorize this pardon personally, then the Department has a duty to investigate and prosecute as it would any ordinary citizen,” he wrote. “Fauci has been sainted by the extremist Left, but it doesn’t erase his lying before Congress.”
If the New York Times was attempting to engage in preemptive damage control with its Biden interview story, then it has spectacularly backfired, creating a hot mess for Fauci, who has been unusually quiet since his autopen pardon.
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