Biden Pre-emptively Pardons Fauci, Jan 6 Riot Probers |Vantage with Palki Sharma |N18G US President Joe Biden has pre-emptively pardoned US COVID-19 response chief Anthony Fauci, and members of the committee investigating the January 6 riots,

After the pardons were announced, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky — both Republicans — posted to X claiming that issuing pardons to Fauci, Milley and others implied they were guilty of a crime, as did other right-leaning accounts on the platform.

In addition to Fauci, Biden also granted pardons to General Mark Milley, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and the US Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.

With just a few hours remaining in his presidency, Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and members of the January 6th Committee and their staffs, amid concerns that they would be targets of investigation by the incoming administration.

President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Biden issued preemptive pardons, while Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters. Over the past several weeks, two U.S. presidents use their executive privileges to pardon thousands of people.

“Dear President Trump” is the address of the letter, which Trump discovered inside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with some assistance from Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.