A U.S. senator and trained physician who sat behind Anthony Fauci during his appearance before Congress last week is pushing for a special counsel to probe possible criminal wrongdoing by the COVID doctor despite a pardon from former President Joe Biden.
Appearing on “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said, “I think there is evidence that should be investigated, but this would take a special counsel.”
“Twenty million Americans still have long COVID, including one of my loved ones, so those people deserve answers as well. This is why I’m calling for a special counsel,” Marshall explained.
“We need to get this out of Washington, get the politics out of it and then go back and build this case: that Anthony Fauci for over 20 years funded gain-of-function research, then he led this cover-up as well. Then we got to get into the autopen pardon.”
“Maybe he’s not immune from what he said in the past. Look, this guy’s slick. He’s lawyered up. I don’t know that we can throw him in jail over this, but I think that certainly a special counsel needs to get a hold of this. There’s no way we can address this in one morning hearing in Congress.”
Americans are still searching for answers. We need to take the politics out of the equation and let an independent Special Counsel follow the facts wherever they lead. pic.twitter.com/1uPwVy4uic
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) August 2, 2026
Last month, Marshall argued in a letter to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that a special counsel would “avoid the appearance that the federal government is improperly reviewing its own pandemic-era misconduct.”
“Specifically, the investigation should examine Dr. Fauci’s role related to the origins of COVID- 19, federal funding for risky coronavirus research, and the obstruction of congressional oversight,” the senator wrote.
On Sunday, Marshall said during last week’s hearing during which Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination 111 times, “Fauci was literally shaking as he read his opening statement and through that hearing, he took body blow after body blow and eventually, when it’s all over with, he’s a man that’s broken. He looks like an old punching bag that’s worn out and done in the gym. And why wouldn’t he?”
“If Americans took the time to read his diary, they’re gonna see that this was a guy that was full of pride. He was drunk with power. He was drunk with pride, he was drunk with his own celebrity.
“This is the Anthony Fauci that I saw through those five years. Never any remorse, never any concern for the people dying, let alone the ones he was locking out of churches, out of schools, out of their jobs. He was not only reading his own press clippings, he was putting them in his own diary as well, regaling over every one of them.
“Sad day for America. We still don’t have closure,” Marshall concluded. “There’s so much more he could have told us so we could learn for next time.”
WATCH ROGER MARSHALL’S FULL INTERVIEW WITH MARIA BARTIROMO:
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. @RogerMarshallMD joined @MariaBartiromo to discuss Anthony Fauci’s Senate hearing.
🗣️ “This is why I’m calling for a special counsel.”
Marshall says an independent investigation is needed to examine Fauci’s handling of gain-of-function research, the COVID-19… pic.twitter.com/ZiwuZvD0Je
— SundayMorningFutures (@SundayFutures) August 2, 2026
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