Dr. Anthony Fauci deserves to be indicted — but he probably won’t be, because his role in the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic that he fought so hard to cover up opens a can of worms that nobody wants to confront.

He has his great patron Joe Biden’s blanket preemptive pardon to keep him safe from federal charges. But the recent indictment of his former factotum David Morens on federal charges of conspiracy and records destruction for scheming to cover up Fauci’s role in funding the risky gain-of-function research on bat viruses at the notorious Wuhan lab in China, where the COVID-19 outbreak almost certainly began, has raised hopes that Fauci is still in the crosshairs of the DOJ.

President Trump has declared Biden’s last-minute autopen pardon of Fauci invalid, which would make it possible that he could be prosecuted for perjury over his 2024 testimony to Congress.

But even if that gambit doesn’t work, Fauci’s nemesis, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has been busily building a case to subpoena the slippery scientist for another round of questioning under oath, in which he will have to come clean about his role in funding the dangerous research in the Wuhan lab via an EcoHealth Alliance cutout, and his surreptitious efforts to discredit the “lab leak” theory that would have exposed his culpability.

Any testimony after January 2025 is fair game for perjury charges.

Fauci’s boss, Francis Collins, didn’t receive an autopen pardon, so he also is fair game.

Then there is the bombshell testimony last week from CIA whistleblower James Erdman, who alleged a multi-agency cover-up involving Fauci, who was then the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“Dr. Fauci’s role in the cover-up was intentional,” Erdman testified, alleging that Fauci inserted himself into CIA deliberations about the origins of the virus — once on Feb. 3, 2020, and again on June 4, 2021 — to try to influence the analysis away from the lab-leak hypothesis that most CIA analysts were leaning toward and instead persuade them to accept the farcical “natural origins” narrative, in which the virus bubbled up from an animal in a wet market fully adapted to infect humans.

According to Erdman, Fauci provided the intelligence community with “a conflicted list of curated subject matter experts, public health officials and scientists,” several of whom were involved in publishing the notorious discredited Nature Medicine paper, “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” which dismissed the accidental lab leak theory.

The idea of an accidental lab leak in Wuhan has always been regarded by honest virologists as the most scientifically plausible explanation. As Professor Nikolai Petrovsky from Flinders University in South Australia told me in 2021, he was surprised, as were other scientists, when it appeared that the very first strains of COVID-19 isolated in December 2019 showed that “the virus was already perfectly adapted to infect and transmit between human hosts.”

Other scientists have pointed out that COVID-19 has a genetic footprint never observed in a natural coronavirus, and that its immediate contagiousness to humans suggests it was man-made.

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Erdman served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence this year, helping lead the Trump-ordered review into COVID origins. He testified that CIA analysts repeatedly concluded a lab leak was the most likely origin, but senior managers overrode them, much as John Brennan did in Russiagate with the Steele dossier.

As Trump official Peter Navarro says, Fauci never disclosed to Trump or anyone on the coronavirus task force back in 2020 that he knew the Wuhan lab was conducting gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.

Nor did Fauci disclose, as we now know from his emails, that other scientists had told him as early as Jan. 31, 2020, that the virus was likely engineered in a lab and not of natural origin.

Fauci has no shame

“Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,” Fauci boasted when people started criticizing him.

If he had any shame, he would keep his head down, but he still travels around promoting his self-serving memoir and delivering keynote speeches and commencement addresses. He was just awarded the 2026 Distinguished Scientist Award by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology.

As if to rub in all the harm he did, Fauci, 85, was invited last month by Georgetown University in Washington as part of “Climate Week” to play a role in a dramatic reading of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy “Oedipus the King,” in which he played Tiresias, the blind prophet who delivers the uncomfortable truth that Oedipus refuses to accept.

No prizes for guessing that Oedipus is meant to be Trump. No kings and all that.

Back in 2020, Trump was widely mocked as a racist and xenophobe for “peddling a conspiracy theory” that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan.

Scientific American blasted “Trump’s insidious false claim Covid-19 started in a lab.”

It was extraordinary that the COVID cover-up was so successful. But as Hans Mahncke, the independent online sleuth who helped break open Russiagate, says, Trump Derangement Syndrome was “the glue that held it all together.”

“What every single player in this cover-up, from Fauci [to] various scientists, to the media, to Biden’s people and Democrats generally … had in common was Trump hatred. They simply could not allow Trump to be right.”

That’s why Democrats and their surrogates invest so much effort in spreading TDS.

It was the same with Russiagate, Hunter Biden’s laptop, the rigged 2020 election, J6 and the climate hoax.

Everyone is a naysayer, every public “expert” elevated in the media doubts Trump, sneers at him and pretends what he’s saying or doing is outlandish or insane.

But look at each issue. Trump was right a thousand times over, but nobody will ever say, “Oh, sorry, we were wrong.”

They just smoothly move on or pretend nothing has changed.

Move on to next lie

For instance, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just quietly admitted that its apocalyptic climate projections of the last 15 years were wrong, or in scientific lingo, “implausible,” just as its 2030 doomsday deadline was looming. Meanwhile, Al Gore has the gall to blithely flip from “boiling oceans” to dire warnings of a looming ice age.

How does a generation of kids who were scared half to death by his stupid movie get back their childhoods?

No wonder Greta Thunberg has forgotten her cataclysmic prediction that “humanity will be wiped out [by 2023] … unless we stop using fossil fuels.” She and her ilk have switched to lying about their latest bête noir du jour, Israel.

By the time the lies are debunked, the damage is done, and the liars move on.