State Prosecutors Can and Should Criminally Prosecute Fauci for Covid-Related Deaths
Source: Peter Navarro. "How State Prosecutors Can Send Tony Fauci To Rot In Prison." October 14, 2026. thefederalist.com
The Gist
Navarro argues that Fauci helped fund risky virus research in Wuhan, then helped steer the scientific community away from the lab-leak idea, and that this could amount to criminal negligence causing deaths. Since Biden pardoned Fauci federally, he says state prosecutors in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana should step in and build a case with witnesses and records. He admits the evidence doesn't yet prove a cover-up but claims it shows motive and opportunity.
Conclusion
Because of Biden's federal pardon, state prosecutors in Florida, Texas, and Louisiana should pursue criminal charges (e.g., manslaughter by culpable negligence) against Anthony Fauci for his role in funding risky research and covering up its likely link to the Covid pandemic.
Premises
- Fauci's NIAID funded EcoHealth Alliance, which sent $598,611 to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where gain-of-function-type work on chimeric bat coronaviruses allegedly made viruses more dangerous to humans.
- Oversight of this work was inadequate: the HHS inspector general found NIH and EcoHealth failed to monitor it, and EcoHealth and Peter Daszak were later debarred for hiding data and inadequate reporting.
- Fauci's own diary records that scientists raised concerns on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2020 that the virus might be lab-derived, yet the 'Proximal Origin' paper, prompted by Fauci and Collins and authored by scientists with a pending $8.9M grant, argued for a natural origin, along with the Lancet statement by Daszak, who did not disclose his conflict.
- Evidence of concealment exists: Fauci adviser David Morens pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States over concealed records, and an assistant reportedly 'deleted a ton' of Fauci's emails.
- Biden's federal pardon blocks federal prosecution, but state homicide and negligence laws (Florida's culpable-negligence manslaughter with no statute of limitations, Texas's unborn-child homicide provisions, Louisiana's criminal-negligence laws) provide viable avenues, and state attorneys general are already acting.
- Taken together, the evidence supplies motive, opportunity, relationships, chronology, and witnesses sufficient to build a case through testimony from Daszak, the Proximal Origin authors, Morens, and Conrad.
Assumptions
- The Covid virus most likely originated from a lab leak linked to research funded through Fauci's NIAID.
- Funding and inadequately overseeing research can constitute culpable negligence causally responsible for specific deaths.
- State courts can assert jurisdiction over a federal official's conduct that occurred largely outside the state, and a federal pardon does not bar state prosecution.
- Alleged scientific cover-up behavior reflects criminal intent rather than ordinary scientific disagreement or bureaucratic practice.
- Individual deaths can be tied to Fauci's acts through a provable causal chain meeting the criminal standard of proof.
- Fauci's promotion of Covid vaccines as safe without disclosing miscarriage risk was negligent and caused harm.