RFK Jr. Says Fauci Was Preemptively Pardoned for Role in COVID-19 Origin [WATCH]

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said this week that Dr. Anthony Fauci was granted preemptive immunity because of his alleged role in the creation and release of COVID-19, as reported by Gateway Hispanic.

The claim came during a recent interview in which Kennedy questioned why the former top health official would need legal protection unless there was something to hide.

“Why did he need immunity? Why a preemptive pardon?” Kennedy asked.

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He went on to assert that Fauci “bears much of the responsibility for creating the COVID-19 virus,” citing gain-of-function research funding that was channeled through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the agency Fauci directed, to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.

Kennedy claims that this funding and transfer of biotechnology gave Chinese researchers the tools to engineer SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the global pandemic.

The gain-of-function research—experiments that enhance the transmissibility or virulence of viruses—had been suspended in the U.S. due to safety concerns. But according to Kennedy, Fauci’s NIAID used intermediaries to continue that research overseas.

“These are not just theories,” Kennedy said.

“We have whistleblower accounts, leaked emails, and funding documents that Congress has a right to review.”

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Kennedy is calling for an independent commission with full access to classified materials, email records, and funding channels related to the early stages of the pandemic and Fauci’s involvement. “This isn’t about politics—it’s about justice,” Kennedy said.

The claim comes as questions continue to mount regarding U.S. government knowledge of the origins of the virus and whether any domestic officials were involved in facilitating research that may have contributed to its release.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. accuses Dr. Fauci of being responsible for creating Covid-19: pic.twitter.com/KiASzhtohv

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Congressional Republicans have demanded access to more documents from the Department of Health and Human Services and NIAID, including any communications with researchers at Wuhan.

Despite the gravity of the allegations, there has been no formal Department of Justice investigation into Fauci’s role in U.S. funding for Chinese labs.

Fauci, who retired from public service in December 2022, has denied any wrongdoing and maintains that his agency did not support gain-of-function research that could have led to the pandemic.

Kennedy, who has been outspoken in his criticism of government ties to the pharmaceutical industry, said the American people deserve full transparency.

“The public was told to trust the experts,” Kennedy said. “Now we need to know whether those same experts helped create the very crisis they were managing.”

Fauci has not responded publicly to Kennedy’s latest remarks.

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