The press called Anthony Fauci “America’s doctor” and swore he never played politics.
But Fauci kept a private diary, and Rand Paul keeps releasing new pages of it.
And one entry about Donald Trump’s border wall shows what the “nonpartisan” scientist really wanted for the President.
Fauci’s Diary Wanted Trump Gone a Year Before COVID Hit
US Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and he treats Fauci’s paper trail like unfinished business.
In July 2026, Paul’s committee published more than 1,100 pages of Fauci’s diary covering December 2019 through December 2022. The committee also posted a 465-page “prequel” of Fauci records running from 2001 to 2015.
That left a hole. Roughly four years, from mid-2015 to late 2019, stayed dark.
Paul’s newest release fills it in. And the pages look nothing like the portrait of a buttoned-up civil servant that cable news peddled during the pandemic.
In January 2019, Trump was battling Congress over money for a wall on the southern border. Fauci picked up his pen.
“Trump insisting on $5 billion for his wall on Mexico border. He is acting more and more bizarre. Should be impeached, but Dems are rightfully concerned that this will galvanize his base,” Fauci wrote.
Read that one twice. The man who later became the face of the government’s COVID response, steering the national mood on masks, lockdowns, and school closures, privately scribbled that the President should be impeached right after griping about wall money.
And notice which worry he picked. Fauci didn’t fret that impeachment lacked grounds. He nodded along with Democrats who feared it might fire up Trump voters.
No law stops a government scientist from holding opinions. But Fauci let the media sell him as a referee standing above the fray, and his own notebook shows he wore a team jersey the whole time.
The Ebola Shot Fauci Doubted in Private and Praised on TV
The second revelation cuts deeper, because it goes straight to whether Americans can trust what public health officials tell them.
In July 2015, the World Health Organization announced its Ebola vaccine candidate showed “up to 100% efficacy in individuals” during the outbreak in West Africa.
Fauci didn’t buy the study behind that number. He complained in his diary about “multiple flaws in the design and the analysis of the data.”
“The data, strictly speaking, are not statistically significant,” Fauci wrote.
He still called it an “inherently good and effective vaccine that was put into a terribly flawed study design.” The diary never explains what convinced him the shot worked.
But it does explain why he kept his mouth shut. “We cannot criticize the study since that is exactly what the press is looking for and that will create tension between HHS and WHO. HHS is too stupid to realize that,” Fauci wrote.
According to Paul’s staff, Fauci then went on CNN, BBC, and PBS, and sat down with the New York Times, praising the vaccine anyway.
Phil Krause, then the director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review, had flagged concerns about the study design to Fauci, the diary notes. Krause later resigned from the FDA as the Biden administration pressed to approve COVID-19 boosters for young, healthy Americans. Fauci backed that push.
And when communications staff at the Department of Health and Human Services tried to rein in his TV hits, Fauci went over their heads. He wrote that HHS press staff were “getting all bent out of shape trying to micromanage what I say on TV and even tried to shut me down on TV but I appealed to Leslie Dach who gave me the go-ahead.”
Dach, a former Clinton administration official and Walmart executive, served at the time as a senior counselor to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Today he chairs Protect Our Care, a Democrat dark money group that organizes protests against Medicaid changes and has played a central role in Pennsylvania Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro’s public statements about measles.
Funny how the same names keep turning up.
A Habit That Runs From West Africa to Wuhan
Jeremy Farrar, then the director of the Wellcome Trust, cheered the WHO’s Ebola results in 2015. Farrar later worked privately with Fauci to shape the COVID narrative and helped smother global discussion of a possible lab accident in Wuhan, according to Daily Caller reporting. He went on to serve as chief scientist at the WHO from 2023 to 2025.
A September batch of committee documents adds another wrinkle. Those records show the US military discovered in the spring of 2016 that vaccinated primates exposed to aerosolized Ebola developed lung injury that unvaccinated primates did not. The finding rattled African embassies and flustered Fauci, according to the documents.
The papers don’t clearly name which vaccine candidates the military tested. They do point to an earlier study that found the same lung injury with a vaccine from Profectus, and they mention Crucell, now Janssen, the Johnson & Johnson drug arm that co-developed an Ebola vaccine with Fauci’s own institute.
So stack it up. A top official doubts the data in private, praises the product in public, brushes off the colleagues urging caution, and leans on a politically connected appointee to keep the TV bookings rolling.
Millions of Americans watched a sequel to that movie starting in 2020. Masks went from unnecessary to mandatory. Schools stayed shut while parents begged for answers. Big Tech platforms branded anyone asking about a lab in Wuhan a crank and shoved them off social media.
Fauci’s defenders insist none of this proves wrongdoing. His lawyer, David Schertler, called Paul’s accusations “false and disgraceful” after the earlier diary pages surfaced, and a fact-check from Fauci’s camp argued the COVID-era entries matched what he said publicly at the time.
But nobody needs a courtroom to see the gap here. Fauci wrote one thing in his notebook and sold the country something sunnier, and he did it years before COVID handed him a national stage.
When Paul hauled him before the committee in July 2026, Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment on 15 questions and accused Paul of an “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution.” Joe Biden handed Fauci a preemptive pardon on his way out of the White House. Fauci still wouldn’t answer.
The Impeachment Fauci Wanted Showed Up Right On Schedule
Democrats eventually got over the cold feet Fauci described. In December 2019, eleven months after that diary entry, House Democrats impeached Trump over a phone call with Ukraine’s president, a partisan exercise that ended in acquittal in the Senate.
Then COVID arrived. And the man who privately wanted Trump gone ended up standing a few feet from him at White House briefings, while reporters treated every Fauci grimace behind the podium like a profile in courage.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has said his department recovered Fauci’s files from government servers and turned them over to Paul and US Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI). Fauci kept the diary on taxpayer-owned computers. Taxpayers footed the bill for every page.
Paul shows no sign of slowing down, and each new release chips another piece off the “America’s doctor” legend.
Fauci can plead the Fifth to a Senate committee. He can’t plead it to his own diary.
Sources: Daily Caller News Foundation, “Fauci Wanted Trump Impeached Over Border Wall, Misled Public About Ebola Vaccine, Diary Entries Reveal”; NPR, “Rand Paul releases Anthony Fauci’s pandemic-era diary notes. Here’s what they tell us”; Michigan Public, “Rand Paul released Fauci’s pandemic-era ‘diary.’ Now they’ll face off on Capitol Hill”; Reuters via Honolulu Star-Advertiser, “Anthony Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Rand Paul’s Senate hearing”; Associated Press via FOX 56 News, “Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment after pages of diary released by Sen. Rand Paul”; The Daily Beast; Celine Gounder, “What Fauci’s diary says about COVID’s origins, schools, and boosters”
