The First Domino? Fauci Adviser Indicted

Dr. David Morens, senior adviser to Anthony Fauci at NIAID, has been indicted. The emails that got him there have been public for two years.

We walk through the indictment and the paper trail behind it. The emails obtained by @RonJohnson's team and made public in 2024 show Morens writing in 2021 that he had learned from the agency's FOIA coordinator how to make emails disappear before a search begins, concluding that he and his colleagues were safe.

A separate email to EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak describes routing sensitive correspondence to Fauci's personal Gmail account or delivering it by hand, explicitly because Fauci was, in Morens's own words, too smart to let colleagues send him things that could cause trouble.

The Department of Justice indictment charges Morens with conspiracy against the United States, destruction, alteration, and falsification of records in federal investigations, concealment and removal of records, and aiding and abetting. The maximum penalty for each destruction count is 20 years. The maximum for the conspiracy charge is five years.

Rand Paul called for this prosecution in 2024 when the evidence was already public and virtually every other elected official was silent.

He is now back on X with a message: lying to Congress is a felony, destroying federal records is a felony, advising others to destroy federal records is a felony, and Fauci did all three.

The statute of limitations deadline to prosecute Fauci is May 11th.

Morens is charged with aiding and abetting, which means the question the Department of Justice now has to answer is who he was aiding and abetting?

Biden's auto-pen pardon adds a layer of legal complexity that will shape how this plays out, but the indictment of the man directly beneath Fauci marks the first time the Covid oversight effort has produced a criminal charge.

The window for more is closing fast.

@DelBigtree