Dr. Anthony Fauci received an autopen pardon from Joe Biden.

But Fauci’s moment of reckoning may still be at hand.

And Dr. Fauci got smacked with one legal document that hit him like a freight train.

Dr. Fauci thought he was going to get away with pleading the Fifth 111 times when he testified before the Senate about COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and his role in allegedly funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab from which COVID likely escaped.

Tens of millions of Americans were sick to their stomach that Fauci wouldn’t face criminal charges for the lockdowns that destroyed lives and the vaccines that took them.

But some Republicans were determined to see Fauci held accountable.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul chaired the committee Fauci testified in front of, and Senator Paul organized a successful vote to refer Fauci to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution on charges of contempt of Congress.

Paul argued that the auto-pen pardon Fauci received eliminated the need for him to avoid testimony that would incriminate himself.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier then announced on Fox News that his office had issued a subpoena to Fauci for documents related to his knowledge of the “safety and efficacy” of the COVID vaccines.

“We issued a formal subpoena to Dr. Fauci under Florida state law seeking a breadth of documents ranging to what he knew, when he knew it, his doubts about the safety and efficacy of vaccines that he’s out there promoting,” Uthmeier stated.

Uthmeier explained that Fauci profited from the vaccines through potential royalties and book deals, so Florida was investigating whether Fauci defrauded the public by pushing vaccines as safe and effective when he knew they wouldn’t stop transmission or posed health risks.

“He’s trying to pursue book deals, awards get conducted with high rollers that, you know, might help him come into millions and millions of dollars. This is wrong. And it could go towards a deceptive trade practice fraud, public nuisance, you name it,” Uthmeier added.

Uthmeier went on to say that asserting a right not to incriminate himself after he had already been pardoned showed that Fauci was continuing a cover-up.

“It shows me he’s got something to hide. Clearly he is worried. When you get a presidential blanket pardon that should provide immunity where you can talk, you can explain your reasoning. You can explain research. I think his diary makes clear if he was not competent in that research. He doubted it; he doubted it the entire time. He didn’t reveal that publicly. He was focused on the mandates and the lockdowns because that would sell. It would help get the book deal, the agency wanted to meet, help him to win awards and fame and fortune. So we have many concerns in Florida. We are going to investigate. If he has violated state law, we will hold him accountable,” Uthmeier continued.

Uthmeier also warned that while this investigation is initially civil in nature, it can become a criminal probe depending on the evidence his office uncovers.

“It starts as a civil inquiry, but we’re going to tie in all aspects of Florida common law, things ranging from deceptive trade, fraud, public nuisance. Nothing is off the table,” Uthmeier concluded.

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