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Grok summary:
6 lessons from Anthony Fauci’s diary (Vinay Prasad, July 27, 2026)
Rand Paul released portions of Anthony Fauci’s diary. Prasad extracts these six points:
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IFR estimate: In February 2020 Fauci privately put COVID’s infection fatality rate at 0.2–0.3%—very close to the figures later reached by John Ioannidis and Jay Bhattacharya. Prasad notes the irony given later public criticism of those estimates and says Fauci “should have signed the Great Barrington Declaration.”
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School closures and visitation bans: Fauci privately pushed school closures with politicians, contradicting later public claims that he had little role. He also supported policies that barred family members from seeing dying relatives—policies Prasad calls cruel and evidence-free.
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Boosters: Fauci worked with the Biden administration to push boosters for everyone, overriding ACIP judgment. He was wrong on occupational-risk claims; the broad policy was later walked back.
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Media intervention: When Politico was preparing critical reporting on the Biden administration’s pandemic handling (including vaccine rollout), Fauci intervened on background to defend the administration.
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Image obsession: The diary shows extensive focus on personal image, media appearances, and self-promotion even amid high death rates and uncertainty.
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Award nominations: Fauci used taxpayer-funded research relationships to solicit nominations for science awards that carried cash prizes he could keep—described as a potential “legal bribery” loophole.
Bottom line (Prasad’s view): Fauci was wrong publicly on lab-leak, school closures, lockdowns, cloth masking (including double masking and masking toddlers), vaccine/booster mandates, and vaccinating children. Prasad also asserts he likely funded research linked to the pandemic’s origin (in violation of federal rules) and received a preemptive Biden pardon covering related conduct. The diary, in this reading, helps correct the historical record even if criminal convictions do not follow.
The post includes several diary excerpts as screenshots supporting the claims.
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Fauci is a Machiavellian narcissist. All the rest flows from that fact.
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Sen. Paul shoulda paused the hearing until the USSCT determined whether or not the pardon negated his 5th Amendment Privilege. And I mean rule on it instantaneously, like a Motions Judge would do. CTFO, he is not in jeopardy because of the pardon! It really doesn’t seem to me like a hard question.
The only issue I can think of is state laws, the Fed pardon doesn’t touch those. Oh, idk, maybe that’s a biggie.
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Given that the objective is not to win a case – the objective is to make Fauci’s life miserable, both as punishment to him and as a warning to others: why not prosecute Fauci for something, anything? Jay-walking would do.
When Fauci pulls out his autopen-signed blanket pardon, the response is that Fauci himself has negated the pardon by unnecessarily claiming the protection of the 5th Amendment to cover his criminal acts – acts for which President Joe had pardoned him.
Of course, the Far Left DC Courts will support Fauci, which means that then the case can take the rest of Fauci’s life (and fortune) crawling through the dysfunctional US legal system until it reaches the Supreme Court. By that time, it will not matter whether Fauci wins or loses.
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Why do the wicked flourish?
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The show is not over – although US media seems to be ignoring that. Oh well! When Far Left US media tries to bury something, we can always try the Russians:
What was Dr. Fauci hiding at the Covid hearing? — RT World News
… “It’s against the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will be repercussions for your refusal to testify,” Paul told Fauci as the two-hour hearing wrapped up. Afterwards, Paul told reporters that the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will vote next week on whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress.
“We believe that with his… immunity from criminal liability, that he didn’t need to hide behind the Fifth Amendment and that maybe the Fifth Amendment doesn’t attach when you have a pardon in place,” Paul explained.
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I have no dog in this race, except for the 5th amendment itself. Given how hated this individual is, I am really looking forward to seeing the 5th amendment working as intended in this real, high political pressure situation, not just some minor traffic stop.
Ron DeSantis still doesn’t get enough credit for what he did during COVID. Despite enormous pressure from Fauci and his political and media partners, DeSantis ended masks, resisted lockdowns, and opened schools
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) July 30, 2026
Proved Fauci had no idea what he was doing pic.twitter.com/MEZVcEtbVl
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Just going to leave this here:
And yes, I know that there were high costs to lockdowns - but lockdowns wouldn’t have been needed if masking was consistent.
Are those mortality data age adjusted? Probably not. There was a significant gradient in mortality with age. States with a higher proportion of elderly residents would misleadingly appear worse. Other demographic adjustments were probably also required. The caption reads “Axios analysis.” Axios is not a neutral player and, besides, most journos are too innumerate to understand how to make the adjustments.
Data to support this claim? The papers I’ve read indicate that masking was of little or no value.
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There’s nothin’ like some real, hard data vs. a bunch o’ journo bullshit.
These findings indicate that countries with high levels of mask compliance did not perform better than those with low mask usage.
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The Electronic Times:
Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to repeatedly invoke the Fifth Amendment during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing has sparked intense legal and political debate. Following the hearing, attorney Aaron Siri argued that Fauci made four major legal mistakes while asserting his Fifth Amendment rights.
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Dr. Fauci Congressional Hearing Biggest Red Flags: Body Language Analysis
( apologies that it contains a dammed advertisement. )
Pretty interesting…
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The ET video lays out 4 items on which Fauci’s pleading of the 5th may have put him in legal jeopardy. (I’ll take “Hides the Truth” for $1,000, Alex). But the video does not explain what kind of jeopardy that might be.
The Committee will probably vote to hold Fauci in Contempt of Congress. But then what? The lawyer who hosts “Coffee & Covid” points out that enforcement would be up to the Far Left DC Courts, who generally give Democrat insiders a pass. Is there any other action which could be taken against Fauci?
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Siri is his last name?
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Apparently so…