Editor’s Note: Does Anthony Fauci belong in prison? Of course he does, but only one political party will put him there. The other still treats the individual who, above all others, is responsible for the devastation of the pandemic as some kind of hero. Choose wisely.
Peter Navarro is frustrated, very frustrated, that Anthony Fauci has not faced accountability for foisting the COVID nightmare on America.
In fact, he has written an entire book explaining Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison.
Everyone who lived through the pandemic—and not everyone did—should feel the same way.
I certainly do.
I called out the Wuhan lab as the source of the coronavirus on February 22, 2020, and then I was shut down online by the Fauci-fueled censorship campaign. My Facebook account remains suspended to this very day.
I wrote a series of articles for LifeSiteNews proving that the Fauci-funded Wuhan lab led by a Fauci-trained Chinese scientist, Shi Zhengli, was the source of the engineered virus. The diminutive doctor’s defenders attacked me again, but time has proven me right.
But Fauci was not only the “godfather” of the COVID virus, he was also in large part responsible for the response to the pandemic—and he left a trail of tears every (mis)step of the way.
From funding the Wuhan lab and ignoring natural immunity, to closing the schools and failing to protect the vulnerable, his mistakes on COVID “spelled disaster” for America and the world, I wrote in 2022.
When Fauci was finally forced to testify before the Senate Homeland Security Committee earlier this year, he took the fifth a hundred times over. He had no choice, I suggested, because his “authoritarian edicts” on everything from masks to lockdowns were not only wrong, but also deadly.
The fact is, Fauci couldn’t have caused any more unnecessary suffering and death in America if he had tried to.
By now, most Americans understand that Fauci’s reign was a cascade of deadly errors. But are there grounds for prosecuting him?
Peter Navarro believes there are, and his book lays out the case.
His is the ultimate insider’s account. As special counsel to the president for manufacturing and trade, Navarro not only had a seat at the table, he repeatedly crossed swords with Fauci.
He challenged Fauci on a wide range of issues from travel bans to the use of hydroxychloroquine—and lost to a bureaucratic insider who claimed to have the last word on viruses and pandemics.
But while Fauci was publicly posturing as “Mr. Science,” his now-revealed secret diary tells a different story. Navarro exposes the contradiction between what Fauci was saying to Americans, and what he was privately confessing to himself.
But the recounting of the Fauci’s errors is just prelude to Navarro’s real purpose: to make the case for prosecuting Fauci in state courts.
The idea has merit.
Fauci may have one of Biden’s magical autopen pardons, but that doesn’t grant him blanket immunity at the state level.
There are possible criminal charges ranging from manslaughter by culpable negligence and conspiracy to defraud the United States to obstruction and state-law homicide theories that could be leveled.
Navarro argues that the most viable path to accountability runs through states like Florida, Texas, and Louisiana.
Florida, for example, has a manslaughter statute that includes “culpable negligence,” which applies to all deaths inside the state, and no statute of limitations on such a felony.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has already opened an investigation, and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined the effort.
Navarro even lays out a detailed—and credible—prosecutorial strategy. Start by putting under oath Fauci associates like Peter Daszak and others involved in the effort to blame bats—and not the Wuhan lab—for COVID.
Then secure the cooperation of his former senior adviser, David Morens, who has already pleaded guilty to concealing coronavirus research grants and awaits sentencing.
Finally, question Fauci’s longtime special assistant, Patricia Conrad, who was involved in Fauci’s bat vs. lab origin discussions with virologists.
Navarro notes that Senator Rand Paul’s investigation uncovered a message from this assistant saying she had “deleted a ton” of Fauci’s emails. It would be interesting to find out who ordered this destruction of records and what they concerned.
Navarro concludes, “Fauci has had television interviews, congressional testimony, medals, a presidential pardon—even a bobblehead. What he has never had is the forum that settles allegations like these: a courtroom and a jury.”
I suspect that many, many Americans would be happy to sit on such a jury.
Should Anthony Fauci rot in jail? The title of Peter Navarro’s book says yes.
I told you he felt strongly about the virus monger. If you read his book, you will too.
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This article was published on LifeSiteNews on October 23, 2026.
