Oversight Committee Puts Fauci And Milley In Its Crosshairs

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Oversight Committee Puts Fauci And Milley In Its Crosshairs

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By Mark Steffen
August 11, 2025



U.S. House Republicans on the Oversight Committee are zeroing in on Dr. Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley as they probe former President Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons of both men during his final days in office.

Fauci and Milley were among a slew of late, controversial pardons granted by Biden out of concern that incoming President Donald Trump would seek to prosecute them. Trump has been especially critical of both men, accusing them of undermining his efforts to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control in 2020 as well as the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol.

The Oversight Committee, led by Chair James Comer (R-KY), said it will be seeking additional documentation from the former administration which may shed light on whether Biden, 82, was cognizant of the pardons when an autopen was used to sign them.

Sensing his vulnerability on the issue, President Biden has pushed back forcefully on the accusation that he was not lucid when aides directed the use of his autopen. However, an interview he gave in June poured gasoline on the simmering controversy when he suggested he “signed off on the standards” for pardons that were announced, but not always to whom they were being granted.

The inadvertent opening gave House Republicans a chance to question the validity of pardons for Fauci and Milley, which cover their time in office under Trump in his first administration.

President Trump reached to the “great news” of Comer’s investigation in a brief post on Truth Social.

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[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

I'm sure the USSC will be just thrilled to dive into the implications of overturning preemptive pardons...

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I'm sure the USSC will be just thrilled to dive into the implications of overturning preemptive pardons...

There is no such thing as a "preemptive pardon". It has never existed in Law until Biden's staff made it up and created it.

The President is not the Pope. He cannot grant blanket 'absolution' for sins known and unknown and for crimes known and unknown. 'Pardons' do not work like that and never have.

You are forgiven for ALL crimes which you may have done from X date to Y date. Including all crimes which may be discovered and proven in the future. There is no 'Get Out of Jail Free' card in real life. (until Biden and his staff started printing them and throwing them around like confetti)

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

There is no such thing as a "preemptive pardon". It has never existed in Law until Biden's staff made it up and created it.

The President is not the Pope. He cannot grant blanket 'absolution' for sins known and unknown and for crimes known and unknown. 'Pardons' do not work like that and never have.

You are forgiven for ALL crimes which you may have done from X date to Y date. Including all crimes which may be discovered and proven in the future. There is no 'Get Out of Jail Free' card in real life. (until Biden and his staff started printing them and throwing them around like confetti)

I thought Ford offered a preemptive pardon of Nixon?

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I thought Ford offered a preemptive pardon of Nixon?

I am glad you brought that up. What Ford did was not as much a classic 'pardon' as it was a signal to the Democrats to call off their dogs. Ford wanted to end the Watergate hysteria to begin to heal the nation. Pardoning (sort of) Nixon as President of the United States "for the good of the nation" is very far from the pardons Biden's autopen doled out to virtually anybody.

Nixon was facing actual charges for an actual crime at the time of the pardon. How can a person who has never been charged with any crime accept a 'pardon'? It does not work that way.

Also, and very importantly, Ford adamantly held that accepting a pardon is a tacit admission of guilt.

[Cyber Liberty]

BFD.  Nothing ever happens to Congressional investigations.

[Smokin Joe]

BFD.  Nothing ever happens to Congressional investigations.

... a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

[txradioguy]

Milley needs to be called back to active duty before he's put under oath when he appears before the Commitee.


What he did to Trump behind the scenes should land him in Leavenworth.

[verga]

Milley needs to be called back to active duty before he's put under oath when he appears before the Commitee.


What he did to Trump behind the scenes should land him in Leavenworth.