Trump Hints At Holding Fauci Accountable, Says He’ll Consider Pardoning Julian Assange If Reelected

Former President Donald Trump hinted at holding Dr. Anthony Fauci accountable if elected president, and noted that he’ll consider pardoning Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Trump commented on potentially prosecuting Fauci in an interview with Tim Pool moments before his speech at the Libertarian National Convention, telling the podcast host he’ll be “taking a look at that very seriously.” Trump also vowed to commute “Silk Road” founder Ross Ulbricht’s sentence at the conference.

Fauci came under intense scrutiny over his response to the COVID-19 pandemic and his agency’s funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China through EcoHealth Alliance. The former National Institutes of Health head repeatedly denied that his agency funded the research during congressional testimony.

Pool asked Trump if Fauci will be held accountable “for the lying to Congress,” and if he intends to appoint an Attorney General who will prosecute Fauci.

“Yeah, and we’ll take a look at statute of limitations, because you know, the statute of limitations are quite long,” Trump said in the interview. “We’ll be taking a look at that very seriously.”