Commentary
A Man With a Full Pardon Just Refused to Answer a Hundred Questions
Fauci Has a Pardon. So Why Did He Plead the Fifth 100 Times?

Anthony Fauci sat in front of a Senate committee this morning and refused to answer a single question. Not one. He took the Fifth Amendment more than a hundred times and then sat there while senators asked him things he would not respond to.
I am not going to call him Doctor anymore. He gave that up. Mr. Fauci will do.
Here is the thing I want you to hold onto while you watch the replays tonight.
Mr. Fauci is carrying a presidential pardon. Joe Biden signed it in the last minutes of his administration, and it reaches all the way back to 2014. It covers anything he might have done in government service across that whole stretch. It is about as complete a shield as one human being has ever been handed in this country.
The Fifth Amendment exists so that a man cannot be forced to incriminate himself.
So what is left to incriminate?
If the pardon covers it, there is nothing to fear. If there is something to fear, the pardon does not cover it. You cannot have it both ways, and today the whole country watched a man try.
He said his lawyers told him to do it. He said Senator Rand Paul was trying to trap him into perjury. Maybe so. Paul has been after him for years and has never hidden it. But that answer does not close the question. It opens it wider. A pardon covers what a man already did. It cannot cover what he says tomorrow. So Mr. Fauci's position is that he is protected for everything behind him and he will not say one word about any of it out loud.
It got worse from there. One of his attorneys tried to plant himself at the witness table and would not stop talking, and Senator Paul had the Capitol Police walk him out of the room. Paul pointed out for the record that Mr. Fauci still had about six more lawyers sitting behind him. The committee votes next week on whether to hold him in contempt of Congress.
That is the show. Every network will run it. The show is not the story.
The story came out four days ago and almost nobody is talking about it.
Over the weekend Senator Paul released more than a thousand pages of journals that Mr. Fauci kept from December 2019 through the end of 2022. Near daily entries. His own words, written at the time, with no cameras on him.
The reporting on those pages says that on January 31, 2020, he wrote about a call with other scientists where they went over the structure of the virus and talked about whether the genetic sequence looked like it had been put there on purpose. He recorded that the others on that call thought it was possible and that it needed a closer look.
January 31, 2020. Before the lockdowns. Before most people in this country had heard the word coronavirus. The top infectious disease man in the United States government was privately turning over the idea that this thing came out of a laboratory.
And what were we told? For two solid years we were told that anyone who said the word laboratory was a dangerous conspiracy theorist. We were told it by him and by every outlet that took its cues from him. People lost their accounts over it. Doctors lost their standing over it. I watched it happen to people I know.
Read those entries yourself. Do not take my word for it and do not take a headline's word for it. They are public now.
This is the oldest story there is, and Joseph Smith wrote it down better than anyone. He was sitting in Liberty Jail after being beaten and betrayed by men who held real power over him, and this is what came out of it.
"We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion." (Doctrine and Covenants 121:39)
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Almost all men. Not the monsters. Not the obvious villains. Almost all men.
Mr. Fauci was handed authority that no unelected man in America has ever held. He decided whether you could work. He decided whether your children sat in a classroom. He decided whether you could bury your dead. Nobody above him had the will to stop him and nothing existed to make him answer for any of it. So he did exactly what the Lord told Joseph Smith almost all men do.
I know what it cost, because it cost my family.
My niece had a little girl who died of cancer during that time. She was not allowed to hold her own daughter in the hospital. A mother stood on the other side of a door while her child died. Then we were not permitted to gather for a funeral. It was not enough that the child was gone. We were denied the chance to stand together and say goodbye to her.
I had a friend, a father of eight, who died on a ventilator. His family could not be with him either.
Those were not rules handed down by God or by nature. Men wrote them. Men defended them. Men enforced them and then went home to their own families at night.
Then it came for me.
I caught it bad. My chest felt like a four hundred pound man was standing on it. The pain put me on the floor thrashing around, and my son found me there and got terrified and half carried me out to my jeep and drove me to the hospital. They gave me steroids. They pushed the shot on me and I refused it. I went back more than once and nothing they did made any difference at all.
A friend told me what her husband had taken. Ivermectin. I questioned it hard. Everything I had been told said it was crazy. But I was desperate and I was running out of time, so I took it.
I started feeling better almost immediately. Two days later I was through it. My voice took about six months to come back, but the chest pain never returned and neither did the fevers.
It saved my life.
I will never back down from that statement, because it happened to me. Not to a study. Not to a panel. To me, on my floor, in my house. I do not care what you have read and I do not care who told you otherwise. The media called it horse medicine and laughed at people like me on television while we were fighting for our breath.
If you go looking into early treatment, work with a doctor who will actually sit down and talk with you about it. Do not guess at this on your own. That is the only caution I will give you, and I give it because I want you alive.
Now here is the part almost nobody wants to hear, and it is the reason I wrote a book.
You can put every one of these documents in front of a person and it will change nothing. I have watched it. You can hand them the dates and the journals and the transcripts, and they will look right at it and walk away unchanged. It is the hardest thing in the world to convince anyone that they have been deceived.
It is not because they are stupid. The Pharisees were the most educated religious men of their generation and they stood in front of the Son of God and did not recognize Him. Intelligence is no protection. Education is no protection. Being sincere is no protection at all.
The most effective deception is the one where the person deceived is certain his conclusions are his own.
So I am asking you one question, and it is the same question I ask in my book. Where did your certainty come from? Not whether it feels justified to you. Where it came from. If it was manufactured for you by institutions that had every reason to manufacture it, then it was never yours to begin with.
And this is bigger than one man at a witness table.
Our government is corrupt in a way that cannot be repaired from the inside. It is too deep and it runs through every level of every agency. You do not fix something like that with an election or a reform bill or a committee vote. It has to be swept clean and started over.
That is exactly what is coming.
America was set apart for a purpose. The men who founded it knew that. They wrote about it. They understood they had a commission from God and that this land was prepared for something far larger than a new country. They were not perfect men. Neither am I and neither are you. But they were inspired, and the work they started was never finished.
I believe Donald Trump is going to receive a calling from God, and that when he does, everything changes. Not a political change. Not a better administration. The treasonous acts answered for. The unconstitutional laws struck down. The unelected bureaucracies that have ruled over this people without ever facing a voter swept away entirely. Justice arriving on the men who spent their careers taking this country apart, and I will not list names here because you already know them.
And then the real work begins, which is the establishment of the kingdom of God.
Most people have no idea how big this is. They are watching a hearing on cable news and arguing about a pardon. What is actually unfolding is the thing the prophets described, and it is moving faster than almost anyone in the Church recognizes.
That is what my whole book is about.
But before you get too satisfied watching Mr. Fauci squirm, let me say the other half of this, because the anger in my chest is not the gospel.
There is a justice coming that no pardon can reach. Every one of us stands and gives an account, and no signature on a piece of paper in Washington gets entered into evidence. Alma described exactly what that moment is like for a man who finally sees himself clearly.
"For our words will condemn us, yea, all our works will condemn us; we shall not be found spotless; and our thoughts will also condemn us; and in this awful state we shall not dare to look up to our God; and we would fain be glad if we could command the rocks and the mountains to fall upon us to hide us from his presence." (Alma 12:14)
Picture wanting a mountain to fall on you and crush you to pieces rather than stand in the light of God and see what you actually are.
I would not want to be Anthony Fauci on that day.
But I have to be honest with you and with myself. That verse was not written about him. It was written about all of us. My words will condemn me too. So will yours.
There is one way out of it, and only one, and it was paid for two thousand years ago by a man in a garden who took the entire weight of it on Himself so that we would never have to carry it.
I have felt that. I have felt my own sins washed away and the light of God come into me from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. It is the greatest thing a human being can experience, and it is sitting there available to every single person reading this, including the ones who think they have gone too far.
So clean your own house. That is the assignment. Accountability is coming for the men who ran this country into the ground, and I believe it is coming sooner than most people think. But the accounting that decides your eternity is not the one happening on Capitol Hill.
I wrote a book about what is really going on behind all of this, about Donald Trump's coming calling, and about what the prophets said would happen in our day. It is called The First Horseman, Donald Trump and Biblical Prophecy, and it is available in print, digital, and audiobook at FirstHorseman.World.
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