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. 🧵
2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: "Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier."
That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes.
3/9 Feb. 1, 2020. The call that produced Proximal Origin. Twelve scientists.
Only 2 concluded it was natural. Per Fauci's own notes, "the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible."
This was never a 50/50 room.
4/9 Feb. 3, 2020. Fauci calls George Gao, head of China's CDC.
Gao confirms asymptomatic people transmit. Fauci writes that Wuhan health officials "did not tell him this and he thus gave out false information," a lapse that "likely allowed the outbreak to take hold."
5/9 Feb. 12, 2020. Fauci briefs four congressional delegations in one day.
Then he runs into Larry Kudlow, who asks when COVID crashes the economy. Fauci's note: "I told him that we are OK for now."
Nine days after Gao told him asymptomatic spread was confirmed.
6/9 May 23, 2021. Fauci calls the lead author of Proximal Origin — the paper he'd been citing publicly as independent science — for reassurance about his own NIH grant.
His diary: "I feel much better now that he is in total support of what I have been saying."
7/9 July 7, 2021. NSC briefing. Fauci writes that "the FBI has no idea what they're talking about" for concluding lab leak, while NSA's natural-origin view was "reasonable."
He adds he keeps "an open mind" — then immediately: two possibilities "does not mean that they are equally probable."
8/9 July 7: Fauci tells the NSC to go work with Andersen, Holmes, Garry, and Rambaut.
Same day, Andersen and Garry post a paper arguing natural origin. Next morning it's in his diary, alongside the CNN write-up.
He pointed the NSC at the authors, then tracked their press.
9/9 July 12, 2021. Fauci complains about "how many hours we are all wasting" answering letters he calls "fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories" — from senators he names, including me.
Asking who funded the research is not a conspiracy theory. It's oversight.
Read it all here: paul.senate.gov/readingroom?re…
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