Citing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “lack of candor to Congress,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on July 29 that his office is opening an investigation to “get the truth of what happened” while Fauci served as a top federal health official during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Uthmeier made the announcement via a post on X, calling Fauci’s refusal to answer questions that morning by invoking the Fifth Amendment numerous times “unbelievable.”
His remarks came shortly after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) asked him and other state officials to act.
“I am calling on the great Attorneys General and Governors of FL, TX, WV, and AR to bring charges against Fauci for crimes against children in exposing them to a vaccine that has now been PROVEN to hurt people,” Luna wrote on X.
“There is NO JUSTICE unless he is held responsible for the crimes HE committed against HUMANITY.”
Luna did not explain why she called upon just those four states to act.
She and Uthmeier were reacting to Fauci’s refusal to answer questions that senators posed during a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing over Fauci’s conduct during the pandemic.
However, Luna, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and others said they believe President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of Fauci on Jan. 20, 2025, made him ineligible for that protection. The pardon shields Fauci from prosecution for any federal offenses from 2014 to 2025.
Luna’s post stated that the pardon “does not hold against state prosecution and civil lawsuits.”
The office of Fauci's lawyer, David Schertler, told The Epoch Times on July 29: “We do not have any comment at this time.”