Did Fauci’s private diary entries contradict his public stances on lab leak, masks, school closures? – PolitiFact

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released more than a thousand pages of Fauci’s private COVID-era writings, providing a glimpse into Fauci’s thoughts on the pandemic response. On July 29, as senators questioned him on supposed discrepancies, Fauci took the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times. 

 We examined claims that said Fauci contradicted himself on issues of COVID-19’s origins, school closures and mask mandates. Fauci’s diary entries revealed that he deliberated the developing information, and that his private stances largely aligned with what he said publicly…

 https://politifact.com/article/2026/aug/03/fauci-diary-lab-leak-masks-school-closures/

 

Anthony Fauci is testifying today?. Why? Because Trump supporters are stupid

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRdl_NdBJQ0

 

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing : NPR

A spokesperson for Fauci sent a document fact-checking Paul's claims and a letter written by Fauci's legal team to Paul last month. In that letter, Fauci's lawyers wrote Paul was waging a "years-long public crusade" against Fauci. 

"You are single-mindedly fixating on seeing Dr. Fauci prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and you are so invested in that outcome that you have created a personal brand around it," says the letter, which NPR reviewed…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-5910542/fauci-rand-paul-diary-coronavirus-origin-lab-leak-hearing

 

Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

Canceling grants based on political priorities, trialled at the National Institutes of Health in 2025, are now the basis of a proposed rule that would bring the $1tn entire federal grant-making apparatus under the control of political appointees. 

Wednesday’s hearing was another example of how criticizing scientists has become an important outlet for the party – and where relitigating the Covid crisis justifies skepticism of a broad range of science. 

“For the past 18 months, the Trump administration has been engaged in a campaign to rewrite this history,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, about the darkest days of the pandemic, when hospitals overflowed and researchers worked on hyper-speed to understand the virus. “Today’s proceeding, I fear, is part of that effort.”…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-covid-hearing-takeaways 

FDA's Marty Makary again floats COVID-19 lab leak theory

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary again promoted a conspiracy theory about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, accusing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Wednesday of funding the lab that created the virus...

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5429695-fda-marty-makary-nih-covid-19/ 

 

Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory

Site that once provided health information now includes criticism of Anthony Fauci, who led response to pandemic…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/18/trump-covid-website-lab-leak