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By Margaret Flavin
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who heads the Senate Homeland Security Committee, has made a significant move by unveiling a collection of diary entries, known as Tony’s Diary Package. These entries, penned by former White House COVID advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci, reveal a curious preoccupation with his own public image, even as the pandemic claimed numerous lives.
The release of these diaries comes as part of the committee’s broader oversight investigation.
Senator Paul took to X to express his findings about the diary’s contents, stating, “My investigation brought to light that Anthony Fauci maintained a personal diary. His private thoughts differ markedly from his public statements. Today, I am making available his diary entries spanning from December 2019 to December 2022.”
“While publicly posturing as a champion of science, he was privately directing his staff to destroy federal records. This is a blatant violation, a betrayal of the public trust, and further proof that Fauci engaged in a coverup from the very beginning of the pandemic. I’m going to ask him about this when he goes under oath this Wednesday.”
Senator Rand Paul@SenRandPaul
1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.
What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.
Today I’m releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. 🧵
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In one entry, Fauci writes that during a White House Task Force meeting in the Situation Room, President Trump publicly praises him as “really a famous guy… the smartest, knowledgeable and outstanding persons he knows.”
He records being “surprised and very pleased” and “stunned and impressed” by the reactions of deputies, despite the meeting’s topic being evacuations, quarantines, and rising case numbers.
After congressional briefings amid discussions of expanding quarantines and a Public Health Emergency declaration, Fauci notes praise such as from former Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) calling him a “national hero” and saying she “felt safe in his arms.”
Fauci also tracked growing media profiles and public gratitude, including noting positive media profiles from Politico and The New York Times, as well as an “amazing outflow of thanks from hundreds of people.”
He describes feeling “pretty safe” due to public adulation while cases surge.
On March 10, 2020, Fauci wrote, “For better or worse, I am becoming an international celebrity. Calls from all over the world.”
In late March–April 2020 entries, Fauci highlighted examples of the ‘adoration’ coming his way even as more and more Americans died and the elderly were trapped in away from loved ones.
He notes stories about “grandmothers who have crushes,” petitions for him as “Sexiest Man Alive,” coverage of his college basketball career, SNL spoofs, bobbleheads, fan merchandise (ie. beers named after him), an Instagram Live with celebrities like Steph Curry, and public “thirst”/fandom described in outlets like The Atlantic.
Senator Paul subpoenaed Fauci in June 2026 after Fauci backed out of a prior voluntary agreement to appear. The session is expected to focus on COVID-19 origins, gain-of-function research funding, related records, and other issues from Fauci’s time as NIAID director.
He is scheduled to testify on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. ET at a public hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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