Merritt Thomas on X - "Diary of a Mad White Doctor
The main accusations against Dr. Anthony Fauci center on the origins of COVID-19, federal research funding, and allegedly misleading statements: covering up the lab-leak theory, funding risky gain-of-function research in Wuhan, and lying to Congress.
Origins of COVID-19 and Lab Leak Cover-Up:
•Suppression of alternative theories: Critics, led by Senator Rand Paul, accuse Fauci of publicly dismissing the possibility that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology while privately acknowledging or discussing lab-leak scenarios.
•Contradictory private notes: Accusers claim that personal diary entries and notes written by Fauci during the early weeks of the pandemic show a disconnect between his private caution regarding the virus's emergence and his definitive public statements supporting natural animal spillover.
Gain-of-Function Research Funding:
•Financing risky science: Lawmakers allege that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under Fauci's leadership, improperly funneled American tax dollars through organizations like EcoHealth Alliance to support dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab.
•Perjury and misleading Congress: Critics contend that Fauci lied under oath during congressional hearings by denying that his agency funded gain-of-function experiments in China. Fauci has consistently maintained that the work funded did not meet the formal federal regulatory definition of gain-of-function and that it was molecularly impossible for those specific bat viruses to have caused the pandemic.
Pandemic Policy and Mandates:
•Flawed public health directives: Republican congressional panels have accused Fauci of supporting or enforcing mandates, school closures, and physical distancing rules that lacked robust scientific backing or caused unnecessary societal harm.
Note: Dr. Fauci has repeatedly denied all allegations of wrongdoing, dishonesty, and cover-ups, characterizing the accusations as politically motivated attacks. He invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on July 29, 2026, citing an unhinged and obsessive campaign by Senator Paul aimed at his prosecution.
The country and the world will wait and see how this all plays out. Some people want him in prison without knowing the facts and the law in order to gain social media followers. Some maintain his innocence for the same reasons. Some have political vendettas in mind. Bottom line is to look at the facts and the law and see what the real answer and outcome should be."
Greg Price on X - "🚨 Dr. Fauci just invoked the 5th amendment and says he will refuse to answer any and all questions today."
Brandon Gill on X - "Fauci ruined countless lives, stole a proper education from an entire generation of children, and forced people to watch their relatives die alone-- while making himself rich, famous, and powerful. He will be remembered as one of history's worst megalomaniacs."
TMZ on X - "🚨🎥 TMZ's Harvey Levin calls the attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s witnessed in government, comparing the push to jail him to the fear and persecution of the McCarthy era."
Greg Price on X - "What may be even worse than Fauci's evil transgressions are the journalists, politicians, and other members of the professional class who are so ideologically dug in on their narrative about covid that they can't bring themselves to admit that Fauci may been wrong about a couple things."
Thread by @KristenWaggoner on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "If we take away just one lesson from the rise and fall of Dr. Fauci, let it be this: Never, ever budge on free speech. It is the linchpin of every other freedom because those in power are just as prone to error and falsehood as anyone else.
And if you thought COVID censorship was over, think again. @ADFLegal is fighting the same machinery as it spreads worldwide via the EU’s Digital Services Act. Dr. Fauci as the arbiter of “science” was bad. Faceless EU bureaucrats as the arbiters of “truth” will be even worse."
Hans Mahncke on X - "We are living through a massive information crisis in which at least half the population is being systematically misinformed, making any sane national debate increasingly difficult. Without a shared factual foundation, there is nothing to discuss. People are not merely drawing different conclusions from the same evidence. They are living in entirely different realities. That is what makes the Fauci story so tragic. He caused untold harm, yet millions of people know almost nothing about it. We can debate precisely how large a role Fauci played in the creation of Covid, but half the country does not even know that Covid came from a lab. We are therefore several steps removed from the basic conditions required to have an intelligent discussion. Other facts are even more black and white. Fauci’s private diary contradicts what he told the public. His own words reveal a man of almost limitless narcissism. These are not matters of interpretation. They are documented facts. Yet we still cannot have a national conversation about them because the media either refuses to report them or actively lies about them. Anyone who is not on Twitter, which is most people, may never encounter the underlying evidence at all. The result is that I increasingly find it almost impossible to discuss any of this with ordinary people, whether family members, acquaintances, or people at events or birthday parties. Unless someone has followed the evidence closely, there is no common starting point. Before you can debate what happened, you first have to dismantle at least ten years of falsehoods and omissions. I do not know how this ends, but it is not sustainable. A country cannot function indefinitely when its people are no longer capable of discussing almost anything beyond sports on the basis of shared factual knowledge."
Left wingers, when confronted with the facts, just deny them, so it's not like facts convince everyone
Hans Mahncke on X - "Fauci's diary entry for May 21, 2020 is one of the most grotesque documents you will ever read. It opens with the mounting Covid death toll and people dying across the country, then abruptly pivots into an extended exercise in self-congratulation about his newfound fame. How was someone so profoundly narcissistic ever allowed to accumulate so much power and rise so high? Completely unreal."
This is why left wingers are shooting the messengers
Cynical Publius on X - "Everyone should read this to understand just how we put the health of our nation into the hands of a deranged, toxic narcissist, Dr. Anthony Fauci. His meanderings on his own fame just beneath the death toll numbers his experiments likely created are perhaps the most nauseating thing I've seen lately. Here is the thing to realize though--the high ranks of our unelected federal bureaucracy are chock-a-block full of lesser and greater Faucis--people who hide behind the veneer of being a "public servant" while all the time actually thinking that YOU serve THEM. Why? Because they are smarter and better than those grubby little voters and they cling to their unelected bureaucratic power because they are ENTITLED TO IT (or so they believe). The cure is not to eliminate such people from government--that won't work because narcissists will always be drawn to the seat of power. No, the trick is to eliminate not the people, but the POSITIONS--eliminate the power that the vast, unelected federal Leviathan has over our daily lives, and the Faucis of the world will find other, less harmful, avenues to exercise their God complexes. It's the only way."
Fauci Starting To Think That Maybe Keeping A Daily Perjury Diary Was A Bad Idea | Babylon Bee - "Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Fauci kept meticulous notes in his diary about every lie he told under oath, which in retrospect had begun to seem unwise."
Kevin Bass on X - "Emails show leading officials at NIH, including Fauci, knew the best data indicated no benefit from masks. Why did they proclaim great benefits of masks then? Because these officials were not managing a virus using science. They were managing a population using psychology."
Sean Malone | Facebook - "Anyone paying attention to the Fauci Diary stuff? Cause, boy is it frustrating while also being depressing vindication for a lot of criticism I made at the time. Turns out Fauci and everyone else thought the virus was likely man made and did not originate at a wet market from the outset. There's also lots of him puffing up his own ego (in his own private diary... weird), working directly with "journalists" like Dana Bash to shape public opinion, and there are major differences between public and private statements. Not that any of this should be surprising. He lied incessantly during the AIDS scare (which he severely exacerbated), and we already know that he lied repeatedly from previous FOIAs of his government emails. It's just kinda maddening that the lunatics who lapped up everything he said and treated him as a god (something Fauci clearly loved, BTW) will never admit how badly they screwed up."
Video Resurfaces of Fauci Warning ‘Household Contact’ with AIDS Patients Could Put Kids at Risk - "An old video circulating on social media shows Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warning that even just "close contact" with those already afflicted with AIDS could result in infection. In the context of a conversation about childhood infections, Fauci speculates that "if the close contact of a child is a household contact, perhaps there will be a certain number of cases of individuals who are just living with and in close contact with someone with AIDS, or at risk of AIDS, who does not necessarily have to have intimate sexual contact or share a needle, but just the ordinary close contact that one sees in normal interpersonal relations."... The clip was posted in response to Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, who was himself rebuking right-wing radio commentator Dennis Prager. Prager, during an appearance on Newsmax, had wondered aloud: "During the AIDS crisis, can you imagine if gay men and intravenous drug users . . . had they been pariahs the way the non-vaccinated are?" Buttigieg replied by writing, "AIDS patients died because people feared simply touching them would lead to infection. Families abandoned their own children to be buried in unmarked graves. Let us know where we can send the books Dennis, God forbid you read one." Prior to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts to curb the AIDS crisis in Africa, and acclaim for his public-facing role during the coronavirus pandemic, Fauci had been criticized for his approach to addressing the spread of HIV in the United States. His speculation about close contact being infectious, as well as his stubborn focus on producing a vaccine rather than therapeutics, were of particular frustration to activists and other scientists."
The cope is that at the time, the mechanism of transmission was unclear. But we were told during Covid that the science was "clear" (when it was anything but) and anyone who disagreed got censored and accused of spreading dangerous misinformation. Ironic. Left wing hypocrisy is such a constant
KanekoaTheGreat on X - "🚨Fauci’s own diary just dropped.
Feb 1, 2020. The secret call that produced "Proximal Origin." 12 scientists on the line. Only 2 thought the virus was natural. The other 10 — per Fauci's own notes — "felt that deliberate insertion was possible." They flagged Shi Zhengli's gain-of-function work on coronaviruses in Wuhan by name. 8 days later, Fauci went on Newt Gingrich's podcast: "I've heard these conspiracy theories. And like all conspiracy theories, Newt, they're just conspiracy theories." Then Facebook and Twitter banned you for saying the same thing his own scientists were telling him privately."
April Silverman on X - "Remember the movie “The Dallas Buyers Club” about a group of AIDS patients fighting for the right to use cheap, effective drugs against government bureaucrats in the pocket of Big Pharma? The villain was Dr. Anthony Fauci. 🎬👹 Fauci spent the 80s convincing an entire generation that shaking hands might kill them over AIDS. Then he came back decades later and did the exact same fear tour with COVID. Two pandemics, same script, zero social media the first time to call BS. The man really said “hold my Anthony.” 🦠😷😂 Reminder that almost 35 years ago Tony Fauci was being attacked by AIDS protesters. 📢 This heinous, lying monster should have been in prison a very, very long time ago. 🔒"
Meme - "WE GO FROM TRUST THE SCIENCE
TO THE SCIENCE PLEADS THE FIFTH"
Meme - The Resistance's Post: ""FAUCI WAS CARING FOR AIDS PATIENTS WHEN OTHERS WOULDN'T EVEN TOUCH THEM. HE FOUGHT HARMFUL MISINFORMATION. HE WARNED ABOUT THE RISK OF A PANDEMIC FOR YEARS. YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO CONVINCE ME HE'S A TERRIBLE PERSON!""
Phil Herin: "Now do his beagle labs"
Left wingers are very open about the fact that no facts will ever make them change their mind because it's all about the narrative, not the truth. But of course, it's their enemies who are in a "cult"
Meme - *Gru's plan with excited Gru*
"Disobey President Obama's 2014 Moratorium against Gain-of-Function Research by moving it to a leaky offshore lab in Wuhan. Oops. It leaks, causing a Global Pandemic. Deflect any questions or criticisms by proclaiming "I AM SCIENCE! Do you doubt Science?" Procure a worshipful Cult of Personality who actually buy into it!"
This is why left wingers accuse Trump of heading a cult, because they always project
Meme - "FAUCI DIARIES: PRIVATE vs PUBLIC. 5 BIGGEST CONTRADICTIONS
PRIVATE DIARY ENTRY. PUBLIC STATEMENT
1. WUHAN LAB LEAK THEORY.
"I no longer believe that the market was the origin of the outbreak. It now appears that a lab leak is a likely scenario." - April 3, 2020
"There is no credible evidence to suggest that COVID-19 originated from a lab in Wuhan." - May 11, 2021
2. MASKS FOR THE PUBLIC.
"Masks are not really effective in preventing infection of the public." - Feb 28, 2020
"Everyone should be wearing masks. Masks are an important tool in our public health arsenal." - April 3, 2020
3. COVID FATALITY RATE
"The case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3% rather than 2.0% - Feb. 1, 2020
"The mortality rate is likely around 2%." - March 3, 2020
4. SCHOOL CLOSURES
"Keeping children out of school is a mistake. The negative impact is enormous." - Aug 10, 2020
"There's no doubt that closing schools the right thing is to do." - Aug 19, 2020
5. NATURAL IMMUNITY
"Natural immunity is real. It's very difficult to ignore." - Sept. 15, 2021
"I do not think natural immunity is reliable." - Dec 1, 2021
"ONE MAN. TWO MESSAGES. MILLIONS MISLED. ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS."
RazörFist on X - "2020: The Science™ is settled
2021: Trust the Science™
2022: Sorry you lost your job for not trusting The Science™
2023: We have recalled The Science™ from the market
2026: The Science™ pleads the 5th"
What we learned from Fauci’s Covid hearing – and the concerning question it raised - "There is a fair chance that Covid-19 leaked from a lab in China, where experiments to make bat viruses more infectious to humans were being conducted at inadequate biosecurity levels. So it is alarming to hear that similar experiments may still be going on in the murky world of the US intelligence community, despite a ban on such risky research. At a Senate hearing called to question Dr Anthony Fauci, who led the US Covid-19 response, Republican Senator Rand Paul asked whether the doctor had worked with the CIA or the office of the director of national intelligence on gain-of-function research. Gain-of-function involves enhancing viruses or bacteria to make them more potent, and, in the past, Dr Fauci has been a strong advocate of such research. At Wednesday’s hearing, Dr Fauci took the Fifth Amendment, refusing to answer, but the fact Mr Paul brought the issue up suggests he could have evidence that it may be happening, even though Donald Trump banned it in 2025. Mr Trump’s 2025 executive order does not prohibit all gain-of-function research but studies which meet the government’s definition of “dangerous gain-of-function research”. “There is still a question whether or not the intelligence community is adhering to that order,” said Mr Paul. “There’s a question of whether or not gain-of-function research is still ongoing.” Whether or not it is still continuing in the US, Mr Paul was right to draw attention to Dr Fauci’s record on it. He has always been a strong supporter of such work, and even suggested in an article in the Washington Post in 2011 that if a scientist accidentally became infected and started a pandemic, it was still worth the risk. Laboratory leaks are fairly common, with smallpox, swine flu, anthrax, and foot-and-mouth disease all known to have escaped from facilities in recent decades... under Dr Fauci’s watch, funding for biodefence jumped from roughly $42m (£31m) in 2001 to nearly $1.7bn (£1.3bn) and dubious experiments to increase the virulence of viruses were approved, despite concerns about what would happen if they leaked... Dr Ralph Baric, of the University of North Carolina, also received a grant to create a chimeric virus capable of infecting humans by inserting a spike protein from a bat virus into the genetic template of Sars. In 2015, he published work showing it could infect human airway cells. Critically, Dr Baric was working closely with Dr Zhengli Shi of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), and in the coming years, WIV carried on the work at less-than-ideal safety levels. By 2018, the pair had applied to the US for a grant to insert a furin cleavage site into bat coronaviruses – the very feature that made Covid-19 so infectious to humans – although it was turned down for being too dangerous. But in April, Dr Baric told Mr Paul’s staff that he believed WIV could have gone ahead with the work anyway, while it was receiving funding from the US. There are fears that Wuhan completed the work and the virus leaked from their lab, or else researchers collected a bat that contained the virus and did not keep it safe. Covid-19 emerged just eight miles from where the team had been carrying out such research, seemingly already perfectly adapted to infect humans. Although many scientists claim the virus leapt from an animal, no missing link has ever been found despite six years of hunting... intriguingly, when WIV and Dr Baric applied for funding, they went to the US defence advanced research projects agency suggesting they also thought it had a military or intelligence benefit. The grant proposal even contained silhouettes of soldiers. In 2025, the CIA concluded that the pandemic was “more likely” the result of a laboratory leak in China than a natural animal-to-human transmission."
Fauci did not believe Covid originated from Wuhan market, his diaries reveal - "Among the hundreds of pages of diary entries made public is one entry from Jan 26, 2020, nearly two months before the World Health Organisation declared that Covid-19 was a pandemic. Dr Fauci wrote: “It now appears using epi data and genomic data that the first infection was in early December [2019] and was not connected to the (wet) market. “Early on, the Chinese were saying that there is no human-to-human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market. “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.” Despite this, during a briefing at the White House in mid April 2020, Dr Fauci said that the science at the time was “totally consistent with a jump of a species from animal to human”. Dr Fauci’s apparent contradiction led Republicans to accuse him of suppressing the “lab leak” theory that the virus was engineered in a Chinese laboratory and escaped."
Meme - Melissa Chen @MsMelChen: ""Harassment" is a curious way to describe holding a longtime public official accountable under oath. Wasn't oversight of powerful government officials supposed to be the media's main job"
"Trump administration needs to stop 'public harassment' of Fauci and scientists, open letter says"
A good reminder that to left wingers, holding people they love and want to shield from scrutiny is "harassment". Meanwhile, leftists are giddy with delight over how they will persecute Trump and those who worked for him after he leaves office
Senator Rand Paul on X - "I don’t see anywhere in this reporting: “Fauci blatantly lied to Congress”
“Fauci deleted records”
“Fauci kept what he knows hidden from the public and lied about it.”
The legacy media still won’t own up to anything."
Matt Ridley on X - "And yesterday the BBC made the whole thing out to be about party politics adding in a single sentence that "Republicans think Fauci knew it came from a lab, for which there is no evidence", ie, inaccurate and editorialising. It would be more accurate to have said: "Republicans have shown that Fauci thought it might have come from a lab, a theory supported by a huge amount of evidence".
End Wokeness on X - "Fauci texted on January 25, 2021 that the COVID vaccines could kill a 1st trimester unborn baby. 82% miscarried in an April 2021 study. Then he went on TV over the next few months, urging pregnant women to immediately get vaccinated"
Bill Melugin on X - "More texts reveal that Biden era US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded to Fauci’s concern about the COVID vaccine in pregnant women by adding “I’ve been hearing concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well.” None of these concerns were ever made public."
Ben Falk | Facebook - "Remember when Fauci's emails were FOIA redacted so we could read how the Nature Medicine's "Proximal Origin" Paper was pushed into publication by Andersen and crew at the behest of Francis Collins, Fauci and Jeremy Farrar to try to get ahead of the building consensus that the pandemic was lab-produced - by a lab funded by the US govt? Yeah, that was wild. Well, turns out the evidence they were trying to disprove has only gotten more significant since and the converse has also become stronger - that the GOF research Fauci's agency NAIAD funded, caused the virus. If you don't understand the significance of the paper: The stated goal was predetermined. The goal of Proximal Origin was to "disprove" a lab theory. On February 8, 2020, Andersen stated: "Our main work over the last couple of weeks has been focused on disproving any type of lab theory" — directly contradicting later claims that the authors objectively weighed all evidence. The authors privately believed the opposite of what they published. On the February 1 conference call, Andersen and Holmes presented their concerns about the furin cleavage site and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. After discounting engineering, Andersen and Garry said they leaned toward a lab origin through serial passage — considering it the most likely explanation for the unusual features of SARS-CoV-2. The paper published weeks later ruled this out. Conflicted reviewers pressured the authors. Fouchier and Drosten — who have both conducted gain-of-function experiments and were considered "conflicted" — pushed back forcefully on the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered, delivering their rebuke in the presence of the virologists' funders Farrar, Fauci, and Collins. The presence of Fauci and Collins was particularly sensitive given their history of support for the riskiest gain-of-function research. Farrar edited the manuscript minutes before publication. "Sorry to micro-manage/microedit!" — Farrar made a last edit to the manuscript minutes before the preprint published, despite not being a listed author. The paper was explicitly designed to control the narrative, not find the truth. Farrar articulated his goal: "The aim of this was to bring a neutral, respected, scientific group together to look at the data and in a neutral, considered way provide an opinion and we hoped to focus the discussion on the science, not on any conspiracy or other theory and to lay down a respected statement to frame whatever debate goes on — before that debate gets out of hand with potentially hugely damaging ramifications." Andersen invoked the names of powerful funders to get it published quickly. Andersen invoked the names of Jeremy Farrar, Tony Fauci, and Francis Collins in an email to Nature, in an apparent effort to impress the journal and underscore the urgency. He introduced the article as rebutting "speculation, fear mongering, and conspiracies." One co-author explicitly opposed publication without stronger evidence. Without more credible evidence against engineering in hand, nothing should be published — "As to publishing this document in a journal, I am currently not in favor of doing so. I believe that publishing something that is open-ended could backfire at this stage." It was used to suppress legitimate scientific debate. Reporters and public officials cited the paper as evidence to dismiss lab-origin theories, making its wording consequential far beyond the typical reach of a short correspondence. Critics allege the paper downplayed or prematurely dismissed a laboratory-related origin through undisclosed influence, ghost or hidden contributions, and editorial changes that strengthened its dismissal of a lab origin. The paper was not a neutral scientific assessment — it was a coordinated effort by the world's most powerful public health funders to establish a narrative before the scientific evidence could be properly evaluated. The authors' own private emails show they privately leaned toward lab origin while publicly dismissing it. That gap between private assessment and public publication — in a paper that then shaped global policy and media coverage for years — is the core documented problem."
Meme - Jack @jackunheard: "Stop calling Fauci a doctor. He's the opposite."
John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz: "You know who isn't a doctor? Rand Paul isn't, and RFK Jr isn't, you stuporous dope."
Readers added context: "Rand Paul holds an MD from Duke University School of Medicine and practiced as an ophthalmologist."
Senator Rand Paul @Sen....: "I'm literally an MD. I operate on eyeballs."
Meme - "me watching Covidians who supported mask and jab mandates now posting about 'Resisting Tyranny'"
Ex-Fauci adviser pleads guilty to plotting to conceal COVID-19 research records - "A former senior adviser to infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded guilty Tuesday to plotting to conceal federal records related to research on the origins of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. David Morens is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 12 by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Greenbelt, Maryland. Morens pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government, a felony punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years... Morens is accused of using his private email account to intentionally circumvent public records laws while employed at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The Justice Department alleges that he concealed or destroyed records of discussions related to COVID-19 research grants, including an effort to revive a controversial coronavirus grant. The indictment follows a probe by House Republicans into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic that scrutinized Morens’ email communications and accused him of intentionally concealing records. In congressional testimony, Morens denied attempting to evade federal transparency laws by using his personal email."
Damn attacks on the science! The court is corrupt and needs to be disbanded!
Michael Shermer on X - "“now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier” —Anthony Fauci, January 26, 2020 For years I gave the benefit of the doubt to Fauci & others that they erred on the side of caution (Precautionary Principle) rather than they lied to us. I'm sorry to say that the latter is true on masks, school/business closures, social distancing & even what, exactly, the vaccine can and cannot do. We will be paying the price for these lies for decades to come, especially when the next pandemic hits and no one believes what scientists and medical experts recommend. @geraldposner analysis nails it:"
