Fauci Diary Thread

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Fauci’s Own Diary Undercuts His Public Dismissal Of COVID Lab Leak

https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/26/faucis-own-diary-undercuts-his-public-dismissal-of-covid-lab-leak/

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has released parts of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary revealing some of what he really believed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Fauci, who served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during President Trump’s first term, recounted a February 1, 2020 conference call with several high-level scientists who were divided over the possibility of “deliberate insertion,” the idea that Wuhan lab workers intentionally added a protein spike, genetically engineering the COVID virus.
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Some of the scientists believed that deliberate insertion was possible considering how Dr. Zheng-Li Shi of the University of Wuhan had worked for years on gain of function research in coronaviruses in an effort “to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor,” Fauci recalled. “We could not let this go,” Fauci added.
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“They bring up the possibility that this could have been deliberately inserted and either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab, the former being the most likely,” Fauci wrote. “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.”
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Despite taking the possibility of deliberate engineering of the COVID virus seriously in private, his tune was much different in public. Months after his conference call, Fauci completely wrote off such concerns in a May 2020 interview with National Geographic, calling the lab leak claims “circular arguments.” Sen. Paul pointed out that “Fauci said the virus was ‘totally consistent’ with an animal-to-human jump.” Other scientists and health leaders in Fauci’s circle, however, were more skeptical.

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Dr. Fauci’s bizarre fame fixation as COVID deaths mounted revealed in newly released diaries

https://nypost.com/2026/07/26/us-news/dr-faucis-bizarre-fame-fixation-as-covid-deaths-mounted-revealed-in-newly-released-diaries/

Dr. Anthony Fauci became increasingly fixated on his newfound fame as pandemic deaths soared, reveal the former White House COVID adviser’s newly released diary entries.

As early as April 2020, when more than 60,000 people had already died of COVID in the United States, the man in charge of America’s response to the pandemic was obsessing about his recent stardom, according to journals released by Kentucky Republican Sen. and long-term Fauci critic Rand Paul.

“Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me,” Fauci wrote in an entry dated April 7, 2020, amid intensifying media coverage around the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

On May 21, 2020, the top doc wrote that his “national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable,” adding it was “not hyperbole” to describe his celebrity in terms of global recognition, according to the diary.
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In late June 2020, as US daily COVID cases reached a record 40,000 in a single day, Dr. Fauci felt fit to mention that he had received an invitation to appear on TV’s “Dancing with the Stars.”

The doctor also repeatedly addressed his growing friction with the Trump White House, claiming that “countless” media profiles about him, and his increased media presence, were turning him into “a star that outshines” the president, he wrote.

Fauci's ego got fed by his new-found celebrity, and his pronouncements were driven by his ego, seasoned with Trump-Envy.