拜登的联邦赦免无法保护福奇免受州级起诉，路易斯安那州总检察长莉兹·默里尔表示
2026年8月18日 美国东部时间12:36 / 福克斯新闻
作者：罗伯特·麦格里维
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403639267112
西弗吉尼亚州总检察长揭秘参与福奇调查的原因
西弗吉尼亚州总检察长约翰·麦卡斯基向福克斯新闻数字频道透露了他决定加入佛罗里达州总检察长詹姆斯·尤特迈尔对安东尼·福奇博士展开的调查的原因。
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由佛罗里达州的詹姆斯·尤特迈尔、路易斯安那州的莉兹·默里尔和西弗吉尼亚州的约翰·麦卡斯基组成的共和党总检察长三人组，联手对美国国家过敏和传染病研究所前所长安东尼·福奇博士展开联合调查，尽管福奇已获得联邦赦免，仍要追究其州级责任。
“美国人需要有信心，相信在新冠等医疗灾难期间为他们提供信息的医疗专业人员所给出的信息是可靠的……重建这种信任，要从追究造成信任丧失的相关人员的责任开始，”麦卡斯基在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
尤特迈尔最初于7月29日宣布其办公室将对福奇展开调查，此前福奇在参议院委员会作证时，援引第五修正案权利，超过111次拒绝回答有关其在新冠疫情应对中所扮演角色的问题。
“鉴于兰德·保罗参议员披露的最新报道，我们将调查涉及安东尼·福奇的所有可能违反佛罗里达州法律的行为，”尤特迈尔此前曾告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
福奇在新冠调查中援引第五修正案超百次后拒绝出席参议院听证会
2026年7月29日，安东尼·福奇博士在华盛顿特区参议院国土安全与政府事务委员会听证会上作证。（凯文·迪奇/盖蒂图片社）
“我们的调查将聚焦于福奇知道什么、何时知道的，以及他如何误导美国民众。我们将调查他的欺骗行为可能对佛罗里达州民众造成的身体和经济伤害，并确定他的行为是否使他面临州级法律责任，”尤特迈尔总结道。
8月5日，尤特迈尔正式向福奇发出传票，要求其提供与他所获奖项、与其疫情应对建议相关的任何经济激励措施，以及“有关疫苗有效性和加强针、自然免疫、包括心肌炎风险在内的潜在不良事件、信息传播策略以及与疫苗制造商沟通的相关文件”。
麦卡斯基和默里尔均已加入尤特迈尔的调查。他们分别向福克斯新闻数字频道解释了此次合作的由来，以及该调查对他们和各自选民为何如此重要。
福奇援引第五修正案引发争议，誓言即便拜登赦免仍要“每日起诉”
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403642504112
“如果我们携手合作，西弗吉尼亚州、佛罗里达州以及其他任何愿意与我们合作的共和党州都能更好地克服困难，这样我们可以整合资源，梳理大量相关材料，”默里尔在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
默里尔还透露，她年幼的儿子曾出现新冠疫苗不良反应。
“我自己的儿子接种辉瑞疫苗后患上了心肌炎，在儿科重症监护室住院了一周，”她告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
麦卡斯基也表达了类似的观点。
佛罗里达州总检察长詹姆斯·尤特迈尔就安东尼·福奇博士的新冠应对措施相关记录发出传票。（艾米·贝丝·贝内特/南佛罗里达太阳哨兵报）
“我参与此次行动的初衷——也是我加入的原因——是利用共和党总检察长协会为我们提供的协作平台，与默里尔总检察长以及佛罗里达州的詹姆斯·尤特迈尔合作。我希望我的办公室能尽一切可能支持他们，这样当传票收回、调查完成后，我可以向西弗吉尼亚州的检察官建议，采取与我的一些总检察长同僚各自所能采取的相同行动，”麦卡斯基在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示。
这位西弗吉尼亚州总检察长告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，疫情防控限制措施迫使他家族的零售商店关门四个月，几乎让他们破产。
“向别人解释你辛苦建立起来的、几乎是你全部生计的事业，却被政府告知不准开门营业，这是很难的事，”他告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“与此同时，我即将年满5岁的女儿无法上幼儿园。我的女儿非常健谈、精力充沛，喜欢和其他小朋友在一起，她热爱学校，对开学充满期待。但相反，她整个幼儿园学年都只能独自在州审计官办公室里跟我一起上网课。每天，我都不得不看着她和我妻子因为这些新冠防疫规定而哭泣，”麦卡斯基补充道。
福奇能靠第五修正案逃避追责吗？专家称拜登赦免或无法提供全面保护
前总统乔·拜登在其任期最后一天，对福奇下达了全面联邦赦免令，赦免其“2014年1月1日至赦免令发布之日期间，他可能犯下或参与的任何针对美国的罪行”。
但默里尔解释说，这一赦免无法保护福奇免受州级指控。
“这无法为他规避州级起诉。总统无权为州级犯罪发布赦免令，就是这么简单。总统只能赦免可能涉及联邦刑事活动的行为，”默里尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
默里尔将特别调查福奇在她所在州与密苏里州共同就“默西诉密苏里案”作证时是否撒谎。在该案中，密苏里州和路易斯安那州起诉政府涉嫌与社交媒体平台合作审查美国人有关新冠疫情的言论。
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“在案件最初阶段，我们就发现联邦政府在强行推行自己的叙事。不同机构在联邦政府的威胁下删除了真实言论。福奇博士深度参与了这一切，我们对他进行了7小时的作证询问，期间他大多只说‘我不记得了’，”默里尔告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“后来我们发现了一本日记，还有现在即将披露的同期电话和短信记录。我认为这已经能证明他在撒谎。当然，我们很多人本来就认为他在撒谎，但我认为公众现在看到了他撒谎的全部程度，他私下里说一套，公开场合又说另一套，两者直接自相矛盾，”她补充道。
路易斯安那州总检察长莉兹·默里尔表示，她将考虑对安东尼·福奇博士提起欺诈和伪证指控的可行性。（克里斯·格雷滕/盖蒂图片社）
鉴于肯塔基州共和党参议员兰德·保罗和威斯康星州共和党参议员罗恩·约翰逊披露的福奇的短信和内部笔记，默里尔表示，她将考虑对福奇提起欺诈和伪证指控的可行性。
“在这里，我们要调查的是：他是否撒谎？如果撒谎，根据我们州的法律，这是否可追责？赦免令对此不适用。伪证是一项罪行，伪证的法定刑罚可能与妨碍司法公正的刑罚类似，最高可判处五年监禁，”她告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
就麦卡斯基而言，由于西弗吉尼亚州法律的一项特殊规定，起诉权属于该州55个县的检察官，他本人没有直接的起诉权。不过他表示，他仍将利用自己的职位开展调查，为民众提供任何潜在民事案件的相关信息，并为本州以及其他州的检察官提供刑事起诉的潜在依据。
“在西弗吉尼亚州，这套流程是这样的：我会收集从佛罗里达州和路易斯安那州获取的信息——这些信息几乎不可能只针对这两个州——然后联系我们日常合作的任何县级检察官说，‘嘿，我们拿到了这些证据。这些起诉由你们负责，我会将针对我们认为需要追责的人的现成起诉方案交给你们。’我的办公室届时将以各种方式协助他们开展起诉，”他向福克斯新闻数字频道解释道。
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麦卡斯基还告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，无论他的办公室是否找到有罪证据，“确保此类事件再次发生时，我们能吸取所有能学到的教训非常重要，这样我们的应对措施会更迅速、更有利于美国民众，并且避免危机期间犯下的错误。”
尤特迈尔的传票要求福奇在8月31日前 comply（ comply 此处应为“提交相关材料”，符合语境）。
Republican AGs working together to investigate Fauci explain how states can possibly bypass Biden pardon
Biden’s federal pardon does not shield Fauci from state prosecution, Louisiana AG Liz Murrill says
August 18, 2026 12:36pm EDT / Fox News
By Robert McGreevy
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6403639267112
West Virginia attorney general reveals why he joined investigation into Fauci
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey reveals to Fox News Digital the reason he decided to join Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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A trio of Republican attorneys general — Florida’s James Uthmeier, Louisiana’s Liz Murrill and West Virginia’s John McCuskey — opened a joint investigation into former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci in an effort to hold Fauci accountable at the state level despite his federal pardon.
“Americans need to have confidence that the medical professionals that are giving them information during medical catastrophes like COVID, that that information is sound… Rebuilding that trust begins with holding accountable the people who caused it to be lost,” McCuskey told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Uthmeier initially announced his office would launch an investigation into Fauci on July 29, shortly after Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to answer any questions about his role in the COVID-19 pandemic response 111 times while testifying before a Senate committee.
“In light of recent reports exposed by Sen. Rand Paul, we will investigate any and all potential violations of Florida law involving Anthony Fauci,” Uthmeier previously told Fox News Digital.
FAUCI REFUSES SENATE APPEARANCE AFTER INVOKING FIFTH AMENDMENT MORE THAN 100 TIMES IN COVID PROBE
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies to the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, in Washington, D.C.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“Our inquiry will focus on what Fauci knew, when he knew it, and how he misled the American people. We will examine the physical and monetary harms to Floridians that may have resulted from his deceptions and determine whether his conduct exposes him to liability under state law,” Uthmeier concluded.
On Aug. 5, Uthmeier officially subpoenaed Fauci for documents related to awards he won, any financial incentives related to his pandemic response recommendations, and “documents concerning vaccine efficacy and boosters, natural immunity, potential adverse events including myocarditis risks, messaging strategies, and communications with vaccine manufacturers.”
Both McCuskey and Murrill have joined Uthmeier’s investigation. They each explained to Fox News Digital how the partnership came about and why it was so important to them and to their constituents.
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“West Virginia and Florida and any other Republican states that want to work with us will be able to better overcome if we work together so that we can pool our resources and we can wade through a lot of this material,” Murrill told Fox News Digital in an interview.
Murrill also revealed that her young son had an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine.
“My own son developed myocarditis from the Pfizer vaccine and was hospitalized in a pediatric ICU for a week,” she told Fox News Digital.
McCuskey echoed similar sentiments.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued subpoenas for records pertaining to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 response.(Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sun Sentinel)
“My plan here — and the reason that I jumped in — is to use the teamwork that the Republican Attorneys General Association gives us to work with General Murrill and James Uthmeier in Florida. I want my office to support them in any way that we can so that when these subpoenas come back and this investigation is completed, I can recommend to prosecutors here in West Virginia to take the same kind of actions that some of my AG colleagues can do on their own,” McCuskey told Fox News Digital.
The West Virginia attorney general told Fox News Digital that pandemic restrictions forced his family retail store to shutter for four months, nearly bankrupting them.
“It is very hard to explain to somebody what it means to have built something that is essentially your entire livelihood and have the government tell you you’re not allowed to open your doors,” he told Fox News Digital.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill speaks on a panel at CrimeCon in Las Vegas on May 29, 2026.(@RenownedPhotos)
“At the exact same time, my daughter, who was turning 5, was prevented from going to kindergarten. My daughter is an incredibly loquacious and energetic child who loves being around other people. She loves school and she was so excited to get started. Instead, she spent her entire kindergarten year with me in the state auditor’s office by herself doing online school. Every day, I had to watch her and my wife essentially cry because of the restrictions that these COVID mandates were causing,” McCuskey added.
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Former President Joe Biden, on his last day in office, doled out a sweeping federal pardon to Fauci which covered “ANY OFFENSES against the United States which he may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014” until the day it was issued.
The pardon, however, does not protect Fauci from state charges, Murrill explained.
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey speaks outside the Supreme Court.(Oliver Contreras/Getty Images)
“It doesn’t shield him from state prosecution. The president doesn’t have the power to issue a pardon for state crimes. It’s that simple. The president only had the power to pardon him for what might be federal criminal activity,” Murrill told Fox News Digital.
Murrill will be looking specifically into whether Fauci lied during testimony she participated in when her state, along with Missouri, deposed him for Murthy v. Missouri, a case in which Missouri and Louisiana sued the government for allegedly collaborating with social media platforms to censor Americans’ views related to COVID-19.
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“We did discover in the very beginning of the case that the federal government was pressing its own narrative. Different agencies were taking down truthful speech under threats from the federal government. Dr. Fauci was very much involved in all of that, and we deposed him for seven hours during which he mostly said, ‘I don’t recall,’” Murrill told Fox News Digital.
“And so we then find out that there’s a diary, and there are now going to be contemporaneous phone and text messages. I think that it already shows that he was lying. Of course, many of us thought he was lying anyway, but I think the public is now seeing the full extent of his lies and how he said one thing privately and then turned around and said other things publicly that directly contradicted what he was saying privately,” she added.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said she will be considering the viability of fraud and perjury charges against Dr. Anthony Fauci.(Chris Graythen/Getty Images)
In light of the revelations coming from Fauci’s text messages and internal writings released by Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Murrill said she will be considering the viability of fraud and perjury charges against Fauci.
“Here, I think we’d be looking at: did he lie? And if he did lie, is it actionable under our state law? The pardon would not cover that. Perjury is a crime, and the statutory penalty for perjury is probably similar to that for obstruction of justice. It could be anywhere up to five years in prison,” she told Fox News Digital.
McCuskey, for his part, said he does not have direct prosecution power due to a quirk in state law that grants that power to prosecuting attorneys in each of West Virginia’s 55 counties. However, he said he is still using his position to investigate and provide citizens with information for any potential civil cases as well as arm his state’s — and other states’ — prosecutors with potential ammunition for criminal prosecution.
“The way that this would work here in West Virginia is that I would take the information gleaned from Florida and Louisiana — and there’s almost no chance that information would be specific just to those two states — and go to any of the county-level prosecutors that we work with every single day and say, ‘Hey, here’s what we got. It’s your job to handle these prosecutions. I’m going to hand you a ready-made prosecution against somebody that we think needs to be held accountable.’ My office would then be able to help them in that prosecution in a whole bunch of ways,” he explained to Fox News Digital.
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McCuskey also told Fox News Digital that whether his office finds incriminating information or not, “it’s important to make sure that if this happens again, we have learned every single lesson we can learn so that our response will be swifter, better for the American public, and free from the mistakes made during the crisis.”
Uthmeier’s subpoena gave Fauci until Aug. 31 to comply.
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