A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis thinks Joe Biden’s pardon of Anthony Fauci leaves an opening for his soon-to-be Attorney General James Uthmeier to prosecute the doctor for pandemic misdeeds.
“We have got a new Attorney General coming in. I think he’s of the mindset to look at this to see what the jurisdictional hooks are, to see what what if any statutes may have been violated,” DeSantis said at the Yale Federalist Society Saturday, regarding the former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the former chief medical advisor to the President, and the “little elf” that DeSantis wanted to “chuck across the Potomac” two years ago.
The Governor said in addition to it being “very possible that the new AG in Florida looks and pursues this type of investigation,” that “some other states would also do it.”
“So it may end up boomeranging against Fauci,” DeSantis predicted. “Biden intended to shield him from accountability and it may have actually sparked state-based efforts to ensure his accountability.”
DeSantis blasted Biden’s pardon of Fauci last month.
“One of Biden’s greatest abuses of power was the forcing of mRNA shots by executive fiat (which Florida successfully blocked). Now, on his way out the door, Biden pardons the chief henchman of that and so many other abuses. The swamp protects its own,” DeSantis posted to X.
As a presidential candidate running against incoming President Donald Trump, DeSantis accused his rival of being soft on Fauci.
During a 2023 interview on the Steve Deace Show, the Florida Governor lampooned the President’s disavowal of a late-term presidential commendation he granted, which he called “pathetic … drivel.”
“Of course he did give Fauci a presidential commendation his last day in office. Megyn Kelly asked him about it,” DeSantis said. “What was that? Was that the immaculate commendation that just happened to happen?”
Fauci was a frequent refrain for DeSantis during his insurgent challenge to Trump.
“I was born and raised in Florida. And while I’ve always loved the state, we didn’t have the same type of pride growing up that, say, people in Texas have about Texas. And yet in the last few years, particularly since I’ve been Governor, we’ve developed that pride and I think a lot of it is rooted in the fact that we told people like Fauci to take a hike during COVID,” DeSantis told Russell Brand in July.
Though the Never Back Down super PAC was not legally allowed to coordinate with DeSantis’ campaign, it helped to reinforce this messaging. An ad from the Spring called “Steel” is predicated on a central image: a picture of a White man in a hard hat watching Trump and Fauci talking COVID mitigation strategies.
Fauci was also a recurrent motif during DeSantis’ re-election campaign, with merchandise such as “Freedom over Fauci flip-flops” marketed to the faithful in 2022.
“Fauci doesn’t care about doing what’s right or using even basic common sense. He’s too caught up in TV interviews, magazine covers and the adulation and acceptance from elitists that he’s likely craved his entire life,” the Governor wrote in an email last year entitled “Permanent Faucism.”
Fauci served as a punching bag during more than one surge of COVID, and the Governor’s team found a merchandise opportunity there as well. When the delta variant strained hospital capacity in Florida, DeSantis’ political committee released merchandise lampooning Fauci, including “Don’t Fauci My Florida” beer koozies and T-shirts.
22 comments
GeeWoo
February 8, 2025 at 6:50 pm
Do it! That mass-murdering, fraudster needs to be put on trial.
MH/Duuuval
February 8, 2025 at 8:33 pm
“in the last few years, particularly since I’ve been Governor, we’ve developed that pride” — Dee
Hubris, as in pride comes before a fall. Apparently MAGA men talk a lot about their masculinity, and overcompensate with the chest-thuming.
Going after Fauci after botching the Covid pandemic. Hubris.
Florida has about 20 percent of the population of Japan but Florida’s Covid mortality total was larger.
Josh Green
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 pm
What bizzaro universe full of retards are you from?
MH/Duuuval
February 9, 2025 at 10:48 am
Who’s joshing here, Mr. Green?
Nell
February 11, 2025 at 9:13 am
You are an idiot just like DeSatan. God I wish something would wipe you people off the planet.
Ocean Joe
February 8, 2025 at 6:57 pm
Please quit wasting Florida’s time and money on your doomed effort to become president. You got outflanked by Vance, Rubio, and Wiles, and now even your puppets in the legislature are cutting their strings.
MH/Duuuval
February 8, 2025 at 8:38 pm
It is edifying to watch MAGAs prostrate themselves before DJT. And throw their money at him like Mardi Gras beads.
Victoria Olson
February 8, 2025 at 9:15 pm
DeSatan a small minded evil little man that threw his constituents under the bus during Covid. We learn that DeSantis loves the Florida wealthy hates the rest of his constituents & could care less for the working class & retirees. He likes to illegally try to take away our constitutional rights like a Fascist Dicktator. We are counting the days he’s termed out, Floridians are looking forward to be DeSantis fee, his wife has no chance in hell to be elected she would just be a DeSatan puppet. The rest of Americans despise him for what he tried to do to Floridians, showed when he ran for president.
Skeptic
February 8, 2025 at 9:29 pm
Lame Duck says what?
Along for the Ride
February 9, 2025 at 12:54 pm
Quack quack
Impeach Biden
February 8, 2025 at 10:50 pm
Prosecute him for what exactly?
MH/Duuuval
February 9, 2025 at 10:52 am
Surely you read the Florida grand jury’s report on Covid? This grand jury met because Dee sent out the word to SAs to get Fauci, which this report failed to do — despite containing much angst.
uoweme
February 15, 2025 at 10:18 am
impeach biden, biden of course. let’s impeach biden, we are maga fools, who else could we want to impeach. let’s impeach obama too. yeah, whatever dude.
PeterH
February 8, 2025 at 10:56 pm
More MAGA magical thinking that will go nowhere.
🤡🤡🤡🤡
Brad
February 9, 2025 at 11:13 am
If there is evidence of a crime, then follow it wherever it leads. This proposal is to target a specific individual and look for the evidence later. That’s a problem for me. That’s not how the justice system is supposed to work. I thought we were opposed to weaponizing justice.
Brad
February 9, 2025 at 11:16 am
Why doesn’t the next Governor prosecute Desantis for his pay-to-play, cronies patronage schemes??? The marijuana cartel is a good place to start gathering the evidence.
MH/Duuuval
February 10, 2025 at 10:14 pm
Homegrown deserves the same legal status as home brewed.
Thomas Baxter
February 9, 2025 at 12:33 pm
Australia, Canada and Taiwan which have about the same population as Florida, and MOL followed Fauci’s and epidemiological science had about half the morbidity and mortality rate of Florida, where DeSantis invested heavily in ivermectin and blocked actual epidemiologists from using their skills and knowledge to fight COVID.
Along for the Ride
February 9, 2025 at 1:02 pm
I feel what started out as a GLOBAL pandemic turned into one of the biggest political battles / witch hunts ever.
SuzyQ
February 9, 2025 at 3:17 pm
This is great news and more to follow from other state AGs, especially in the wake of the removal of his lifetime, taxpayer-funded 24-hour armed personal security detail along with black limousine transportation — a luxury reserved for ex-Presidents, not Deep Staters investing in bioweapons research.
MH/Duuuval
February 10, 2025 at 10:16 pm
In Fauci’s line of work, unethical folks are always a problem. Should researchers turn a blind eye to bioweapons?
uoweme
February 12, 2025 at 6:29 am
suzyq, what is a “deep stater”? to me, you sound like a hardcore conspiracy theorist. Fauci, as all sane Americans know, was a huge asset to our country. suzyq, what’s got into you?
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