Joe Rogan Experience #2548 - Brian Simpson · Aired Sep 1, 2026
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President Biden issued a 10-year pardon to Anthony Fauci for all crimes he may have committed between 2014 and 2024.
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Biden did issue a preemptive pardon covering Fauci's potential conduct, but the actual date range was January 1, 2014 through January 19, 2025, not through 2024. The pardon runs just over 11 years, not a clean 10, so the claim gets the substance right but the end date wrong.
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Is it true that President Biden issued a 10-year pardon to Anthony Fauci for all crimes he may have committed between 2014 and 2024?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. Biden did issue a preemptive pardon covering Fauci's potential conduct, but the actual date range was January 1, 2014 through January 19, 2025, not through 2024. The pardon runs just over 11 years, not a clean 10, so the claim gets the substance right but the end date wrong. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2548 - Brian Simpson, aired Sep 1, 2026, at 16:11. The supporting source is npr.org, linked below.
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