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Anthony Fauci’s newly released pandemic diary shows a man consumed with his own fame — and privately convinced of the very “conspiracy theories” he was scoffing at in public.

US Senator Rand Paul this week released 1,141 pages of Anthony Fauci’s personal COVID-era diary, recovered from Fauci’s own government computer records under new leadership at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

The document dump caught Fauci off guard, landing just days before his subpoenaed hearing before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, scheduled for Wednesday local time.

What Fauci’s diary reveals is hardly news to readers of The Daily Declaration. Whether on COVID’s origins, fatality rates, injection failures or lockdowns, we made the very same arguments years ago that Fauci long conceded in secret — and were roundly mocked for it by members of the Australian public.

In all, it’s a good week to be a “conspiracy theorist”.

Now, to that diary…

1. While Americans buried their dead, Fauci’s diary tracked his own celebrity.

In May 2020, as US deaths climbed past 90,000, Fauci wrote that his fame was “explosive and really unimaginable,” adding, “It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognisable [persons] in the world.”

He noted Secret Service agents waved him through checkpoints without ID, and that Trump “seems to be enamoured of me even though I am taking the spotlight away from him.” Three days later, he recorded that the White House was “very upset” that the press was making him look like a star who outshone the President.

Fauci’s private diary. March 2020.

March 21 — “deaths 9800”:

“Big front page article about me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering.”

“my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable”

“It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most… pic.twitter.com/6kbU5Mjq9G

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 26, 2026

From very early, The Daily Declaration challenged the unquestioning trust placed in figures like Fauci.

2. Fauci knew the lab-leak theory was credible from the earliest weeks — while telling the public the opposite.

On 26 January 2020, Fauci wrote that the Wuhan market “was not the source, it was the amplifier” of the outbreak.

Five days later, he recorded that a team of virologists had told him on a call they believed the mutations around the spike protein’s furin cleavage site “could not have occurred naturally,” and that the virus “could have been deliberately inserted and either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab.”

Within weeks, Fauci was telling the public the opposite, and publicly dismissing the lab leak as a conspiracy theory.

🚨 FAUCI’S PRIVATE DIARY VS. HIS PUBLIC STORY

Jan 31, 2020

Jeremy Farrar and Kristian Andersen warned Fauci that the virus might have been engineered.

Scientists on the call believed the mutations surrounding the furin cleavage site could not have evolved naturally because… pic.twitter.com/EGSUtoWGwC

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 27, 2026

The Daily Declaration made this very case in March 2023 — that Fauci manufactured a false consensus to bury the lab-leak theory — over two years before his diary confirmed it.

3. Fauci privately estimated COVID’s fatality rate at a tenth of what he later told the public.

On 8 February 2020, Fauci wrote that after discussing the outbreak with a high-profile colleague, “we are on the same page in thinking [that] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than [the confirmed case count], making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3% rather than 2.0%.”

Over the following weeks, he had told the media and Congress that the virus was “10x more lethal than the seasonal flu” — many times higher than what he’d expressed privately.

🚨Fauci’s diary says he privately put COVID’s fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%. Under oath weeks later, he told Congress it was 10x the flu. The timeline:

Feb 8, 2020 (private diary): case fatality rate “more like 0.2-0.3%.”

March 10 (Hannity): “The mortality for this is about 2-2.5%.… pic.twitter.com/FVoAYZhQ6J

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 26, 2026

The Daily Declaration was challenging official mortality figures as early as January 2022, long before the diary confirmed how low Fauci’s own estimates really were.

4. Fauci privately coordinated with the CNN anchor who would interview him.

In his diary, Fauci described a dinner at Jake Tapper’s home as “friendship building,” and recorded a phone call in which “Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.”

This is a form of backchanneling — a source and a journalist coordinating privately, off-air, to manage how a story is framed — the opposite of the arm’s-length relationship the public assumes exists between a network anchor and the officials he supposedly holds to account.

Jake Tapper was having Fauci over for dinners. Fauci called it “friendship building.”

Tapper told Fauci he “wanted to make sure the interview didn’t cause any problems.”

Tapper would ‘interview’ Fauci, and do things like nod along as Fauci blasts red states.

This is CNN. pic.twitter.com/9O042amEDs

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 27, 2026

From January 2022 onwards, The Daily Declaration expressed concern that the press had stopped scrutinising the COVID officials it was meant to hold to account.

5. Fauci knew injected people could still catch and spread COVID at rates similar to the uninjected.

In July 2021, Fauci recorded briefing the President that “the delta variant is causing breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals” who “can transmit the virus to uninfected individuals,” and that viral loads in breakthrough cases were “similar to” those in the uninjected.

That November, after attending an injected-only event, he wrote that he lay awake “concerned about having gotten infected,” adding, “I’m well aware that many people who are vaccinated are still getting infected.”

He downplayed these concerns publicly and continued pushing the injections as essential until the day he retired.

FACUI DIARIES SHOW NZ VACCINE MANDATES BASED ON ERRONEOUS MYTHOLOGY…

I live in New Zealand where we had the toughest mRNA employment mandates in the world.

Thousands of New Zealanders lost their jobs, their careers, their income, their respect, because they refused to take an… pic.twitter.com/Vy6o9IXU3J

— NZ and the MRNA (@HopeRising19) July 27, 2026

The Daily Declaration made this same case in January 2022, long before Fauci’s diary confirmed he’d known it privately all along.

6. Fauci discovered a pulmonary blood clot months after his own injection.

In June 2021, he wrote that a CT scan ordered after chest pain found a lesion doctors initially feared was cancer, but which specialists concluded was more likely inflammatory. The same scan showed “a pulmonary infarct in the right lowest segment that was definite,” and he began “anticoagulation immediately with Eliquis.”

As RFK Jr. and others have highlighted, this is a condition health agencies themselves listed as an expected injection side effect. Fauci was treated privately by top American doctors and never disclosed his injury — all while downplaying clotting events as a genuine injection risk.

Fauci had a pulmonary embolism June 19, 2021. pic.twitter.com/CP1uGs5QxY

— Mary Talley Bowden MD (@MaryBowdenMD) July 26, 2026

RFK Jr. reveals Fauci may have suffered a COVID vaccine injury and hid his new health condition while promoting the jab for everyone else.

“He got vaccinated… in January of [2021]. And then, five months later, he had… a pulmonary infarction, which is one of the adverse… pic.twitter.com/iEc6mEbR1q

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 28, 2026

The Daily Declaration began reporting on COVID injection injury cases and regulatory silence from December 2022.

7. Fauci privately claimed credit for pushing New York and California into lockdown but denied it on air.

Fauci wrote that he “convinced” Bill de Blasio to close New York City’s schools, bars, and restaurants “based on what I was saying publicly,” and that Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff told him California would do the same “based on my TV appearances today and yesterday.”

What he said in public was a different story. In 2022, he told ABC News, “They always say ‘Fauci was responsible for closing schools.’ I had nothing to do… I mean, let’s get down to the facts.” The following year, he told the New York Times, “Show me a school that I shut down and show me a factory that I shut down. Never. I never did.”

PUBLICLY: I had nothing to do with closing schools!
PRIVATELY: I got NY and CA to close schools❤️✊ https://t.co/Ho30giL5RT pic.twitter.com/9M84CLk4GA

— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) July 27, 2026

The Daily Declaration continually questioned the proportionality of the lockdowns Fauci promoted.

And to think that we were the ones being censored for misinformation!

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Image courtesy of X / Rand Paul.