Conservatives are already predicting Donald Trump will file federal charges against Anthony Fauci.
The conjecture comes as figures like Elon Musk have called for the arrest of the infectious disease expert who served as chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022.
The demands have grown louder since the National Institutes of Health admitted to Congress it funded risky ‘gain of function’ research in Wuhan, China, under Fauci earlier this year.
Newly uncovered emails went on to show attempts from top aides to evade public record laws and a potential ‘conspiracy at the highest levels… to avoid public transparency regarding the COVID-19 pandemic’, said Rep. Brad Wenstrup.
Wenstrup, a Republican from Ohio, is the chair of the House GOP-led investigation into the origins of the crisis.
Former Levi’s exec Jennifer Sey, who was fired for slamming COVID restrictions in schools in 2022, and prominent molecular biologist Richard. H Ebright were among those Wednesday already anticipating a Trump win – and prosecutions to follow.
‘This will not go well for Fauci,’ wrote Sey, who was kicked out of Levi’s following a conversation with CEO Charles Berg where she was told she was ‘too problematic’ to be his successor. She had criticized NIH-recommended restrictions put in place at the time.
‘Good,’ she added.
‘Very bad night for unindicted felon Fauci…who now is on an fast track to becoming indicted and convicted felon Anthony Fauci,’ added Ebright, who has a degree in microbiology and molecular genetics from Harvard.
He added that with figures like Rand Paul as Chair of the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs and Robert F Kennedy Jr. an almost assured role at the White House, the ‘indictment and conviction’ of Fauci is coming.
Both believe Fauci violated federal policies on gain-of-function and enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research as part of a conspiracy to defraud and commit perjury, and is culpable for a pandemic that killed 20million.
When an onlooker posited that Fauici ‘likely has immunity’ due to being in possession of federal security clearances, Ebright explained why this would no longer the case.
‘No,’ the credentialed scientiest sniped, as a New York Times statistics put Kamala Harris’s chances of winning the presidential election at a paltry 7 percent.
‘His protection from prosecution has, at all times, depended on the whim of the DoJ and the White House. Which now will be in different hands.’
Faucie, meanwhile, remains at the center of an escalating probe into the virus’s origins, which has uncovered carefully designed efforts to conceal official government correspondence – and public scrutiny.
They have shown that at least some agency officials, including a top advisor to then-director Fauci, deleted messages and used personal emails to skirt public records laws.
David Morens, a former Fauci aide and career NIH scientist, conceded to the committee this past May that he may have sent information on government business to Fauci’s personal, as Wenstrup said the evidence ‘suggests a conspiracy at the highest levels.’
‘I can either send stuff to Tony on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work,’ Morens wrote in a 2021 email released by the committee.
‘He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble.’
Back in June, the former head of the NIAID who stepped down at the end of 2022 appeared before the committee to insist to lawmakers he never used a personal email to discuss work.
He continues to maintain that stance, as he also faced backlash over research he signed off on on beagle puppies by his National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID).
The project saw innocent hound dogs tormented and killed in a lab in Tunisia to learn more about a parasitic disease, something the NIAID initially denied funding before Fauci confirmed this year that was a fib.
It also saw the hashtag #ArrestFauci trend on the site formerly known as Twitte, as he also faced backlash over his handling of the pandemic. The now-retired expert faced a grilling about this in June as well.
In a statement offered Monday in response, Fauci’s attorney David Schertler, said his client ‘stands by his June 3rd testimony’
He further claimed the email ‘was a personal matter and not a matter related to government business’, as many conservatives – including allies of former President Trump – continue to frame the NIH as a bloated bureaucracy that protected unaccountable officials.
A former Fauci aide conceded to the committee this past May that he may have sent information on government business to Fauci’s personal, as the rep overseeing the probe said the evidence ‘suggests a conspiracy at the highest levels’. Fauci is seen testifying in June
Fauci has become the focal point of the scandal, and was widely viewed as the public face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Historically, the NIH enjoyed unquestionable biparitsan support, but the grant money used during the pandemic – well in the trillions – has put it under rare outside scrutiny.
Leading the charge are House Republicans, who will be further emboldened by a Trump win.