In addition to Fauci, Biden also granted pardons to General Mark Milley, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, and the US Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.

President Biden granted a slew of last-minute preemptive pardons on Jan. 20, including to Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of the January 6th committee.

Biden made it clear that his decision to preemptively pardon these individuals was no indication of any guilt on their part

Joe Biden has issued preemptive pardons to Dr Anthony Fauci, General Mark A Milley, and members of the January 6 Committee ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration.

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.

President Joe Biden pardoned former White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci for all crimes that he may have committed as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

The 'controversial' pardons come just hours before Donald Trump was to be sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.

The statement stressed that the pardons "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.

“Dear President Trump” is the address of the letter, which Trump discovered inside the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office with some assistance from Fox News Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy.

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During his final hours in office, US President Joe Biden issued a number of pre-emptive pardons to prevent what he called "unjustified... politically motivated prosecutions".