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The Era of Cover-Ups

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07.08.2026

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There’s no mystery in why Dr. Anthony Fauci strove to silence discussion about the origins of COVID-19 – he was in full CYA mode because the agency he led had helped fund the Wuhan lab that apparently created the deadly virus. It also seems clear that others in the government and many powerful business interests enabled this deception for fear that fingering China rather than a rabid bat might lead Americans to demand some accountability.

This makes President Biden’s decision to grant Fauci a “preemptive pardon” all the more troubling. Biden apparently believed that the doctor who equated himself with science itself needed to be shielded from prosecution “for any offenses against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through the date of this pardon.”

This stinks of a cover-up. It raises the question: why the start date six years before the pandemic erupted? It suggests that Biden or someone in his administration knew or at least suspected that Fauci may have engaged in criminal activity connected to the emergence of the virus.

Even if one accepts the Democrats’ argument that Fauci was singled out as a fall guy by President Trump, Rand Paul, and much of the Republican Party, it’s hard to understand why shielding one man from scrutiny is more important than holding a possible wrongdoer accountable. Given that some 1.24 million Americans have died from the virus, including several thousand this year, one might expect that Fauci’s defenders in the Democratic Party and the legacy media would themselves want........

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