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.
1/ I asked for the truth about how COVID-19 origins research crossed U.S. borders. Here's what I found: undeclared coronavirus materials moving between American and Chinese labs as far back as 2018 — years before anyone had heard of COVID-19. 🧵
2/ April 2018: WIV scientist Zhengli Shi asked University of Minnesota virologist Fang Li to have a student carry SARS-related antibodies back to China. Li flagged the risk himself, citing "the current tension between USA and China," and suggested someone else ship them.
3/ October 2018: A student in Li's lab coordinated shipping live PEDV — a swine coronavirus — to Ralph Baric, a preeminent coronavirus researcher, complete with a growth protocol attached.
1/ Dr. Ralph Baric sat for a transcribed interview with HSGAC staff. He's the scientist who designed the furin cleavage site work for the DEFUSE proposal. Today I'm releasing the transcript. Here's what he admitted. 🧵
2/ On DARPA's PREEMPT solicitation, which asked researchers to learn what makes a virus jump species "down to the nucleotide level,” Baric said there's only one honest answer: "That's a gain-of-function experiment. There's no other way to think about it."
3/ On DEFUSE, the proposal he submitted with EcoHealth Alliance’s Peter Daszak, and Zhengli Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Baric confirmed the step of inserting a furin cleavage site into a viral backbone would be done by him, directly admitting: "That part would be done by me."
Behind closed doors, the scientists who authored the Proximal Origin paper privately questioned their own conclusions. Publicly, however, they shamed, attacked, and censored those who raised legitimate questions—all in the name of damage control.
I have released more than 1,100 pages of Slack messages that expose the frantic public relations campaign at the heart of the COVID cover-up.
The scientists at the center of the lab leak cover-up described the leaked experiments proposed in Wuhan as the “Baric/Daszak shitshow,” referring to scientists Peter Daszak and Ralph Baric. The scientists wanted to avoid being “associated with [those] f*ckers.”
These are the people who directly influenced the narrative and control our daily lives.
1/ NEW: I'm releasing Slack messages from the authors of "Proximal Origin," the paper used to shut down the lab-leak question in early 2020. Their private conversations tell a very different story than their public paper. 🧵
The authors publicly said there was "no evidence" SARS-CoV-2 was engineered.
Privately, Kristian Andersen put the odds of a lab leak at 30%. Eddie Holmes estimated 20% — later revised down to 10%. Those aren't zero.
Andersen, on the furin cleavage site debate:
"some smoking(ish) guns starting to appear that I'm not comfortable with"
"Our paper was pretty strong in saying 'there's no way,' but I have less confidence in that statement at this stage."
🧵They told the public a COVID lab leak “wasn’t plausible.” Their own private messages say otherwise. Today I’m launching The Reading Room where the public can review records related to my ongoing investigation – not just conclusions but the actual documents.
2/ My latest drop: CBP prepared to stop and question Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance, at JFK in February 2021 after his return from the WHO's COVID origins mission to China. The FBI told them not to.
3/ CBP's targeting package flagged Daszak's 15+ year relationship with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and his role as lead researcher on NIH grants funding bat coronavirus research - stating internally that "much of the funding DASZAK receives is put towards gain of function research."
For nearly 20 years, Dr. Anthony Fauci was wired into America's intelligence and defense apparatus.
Newly released documents from our investigation show how that access let him shape the COVID-19 origins debate — across science, the IC, and the public.
🧵 READ MORE: hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/upl…
These documents corroborate CIA Whistleblower James Erdman’s sworn testimony before our committee last month that Fauci helped steer the Intelligence Community's COVID origins assessment toward the NIH-funded scientists behind "Proximal Origin."
ICYMI – Just before I gaveled in the hearing, CIA’s “Spokesperson” was crashing out on X shamefully disparaging Erdman (an American hero) for coming forward to tell the American people the truth. We knew we were right over the target…