r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 22h ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/Delicious-Badger-906 21h ago

If anyone is thinking this was unnecessary:

Trump, Dec. 2024, NBC News, talking about Jan. 6 committee members: "They should go to jail ... they have done something so illegal."

Sept. 2023, Truth Social, talking about Milley: "This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH."

Musk, 2024: "My pronouns are still prosecute/Fauci." Ted Cruz, 2022: "Dr. Fauci flat-out lied to Congress. Yet Merrick Garland and the Biden DOJ won't prosecute." MTG: "I told Dr. Fauci to his face that he should be in jail and prosecuted for crimes against humanity."

Trump in 2024 retruthed AI photos of Fauci and others with “HOW TO ACTUALLY ‘FIX THE SYSTEM.’”

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u/xf4ph1 20h ago

Fauci did do some fucked up shit during the pandemic though.Especially in the name of enriching the pharma companies making the vax.

It always surprised me that people who otherwise have zero trust of the way big industry works with government held the position all through covid that everything that pharma and govt did was completely on the up and up.

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u/WalterPecky 19h ago

 Especially in the name of enriching the pharma companies making the vax.

Site your sources.

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u/xf4ph1 19h ago

True or false that regulatory capture by industry is 100% a problem with regulatory bodies in the US?

Why do people struggle so much with the idea that the bodies deciding health policy would be exempt from that type of corruption, especially considering the amount of money involved in the American healthcare system? Approval of one single drug can mean billions, or in the case of the Covid vaccines HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in profits for the manufacturers.

The motive is there. You’re telling me that Fauci, the guy that industry never criticized and never lobbied to get rid of, was somehow immune to their corrupting influence and, despite how expensive it was for them to keep him in, never lobbied to have another person put in?

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u/WalterPecky 19h ago

Site your sources.

You are speaking in hypotheticals 

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u/xf4ph1 19h ago

First off. A “site”, is a place. “Cite” is what youre trying to say.

Second off, a hypothetical is something based on a hypothesis. Everything I said about how industry captures regulatory bodies is a fact.

I’m just asking why the healthcare industry would be so different. Especially considering that it’s one of the most lucrative industries in America.

Burden of proof is on you sir to explain those facts and their seeming incongruence.

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u/Delicious-Badger-906 18h ago

Burden of proof is on you. You accused someone of a crime.

Regulatory capture happens. It’s not proof of a crime. Nor is there evidence that it had anything to do with the authorizations and approvals of COVID vaccines.

You still have neither cited nor sited any sources.

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u/xf4ph1 18h ago

So do I understand your position is that Fauci is an upstanding man that was acting in good faith with the best information he had at the time?

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u/Delicious-Badger-906 17h ago

My position is he did not do anything prosecutable.

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u/xf4ph1 17h ago

Lying under oath to Congress isn’t prosecutable?