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Fauci grilled on illegally soliciting cash prizes during COVID pandemic

Headline from Wyoming Tribune Eagle, from the development of Jul 29, 2026

Newest development Jul 29, 2026 · 2 reportsFauci faces angry senators over diary, COVID response

(The Center Square) – With newly declassified documents showing Anthony Fauci withheld information from Congress and the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, Republicans interrogated the former chief medical advisor in a congressional hearing Wednesday.

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  1. Paul releases Fauci's diary entries ahead of hearing

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  2. Fauci diary bombshells: Glenn Beck dives into wildest lines from his just-released entries

    Headline from Conservative Review ·

  3. New Fauci diary entry is raising eyebrows over Thanksgiving during COVID

    Headline from BizPac Review ·

  4. Examining the legal process behind Fauci diaries release

    Headline from CBS News ·

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    Fauci grilled on illegally soliciting cash prizes during COVID pandemic

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    Fauci faces angry senators over diary, COVID response

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  1. Fox News

    Fauci's newly released COVID diaries reveal bizarre fixation on fame as pandemic deaths mounted (opens Fox News)

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    Anthony Fauci's private diary entries reveal he called himself the most famous person in the country while documenting rising COVID-19 death tolls.

  2. The Daily Wire

    New Fauci Diaries Reveal Celebrity Obsession At Height Of COVID Crisis (opens The Daily Wire)

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    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Chief Medical Advisor to the President, appeared consumed with media attention and his growing public image as the coronavirus pandemic claimed lives and overwhelmed hospitals around the globe.

  3. The Daily Caller

    Fauci’s Own Diary Undercuts His Public Dismissal Of COVID Lab Leak (opens The Daily Caller)

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    ‘staring at the furin-cleavage site and talking about deliberate insertion’

  4. Just the News

    Fauci's 'diary' shows he relished in fame during COVID, purportedly tried to squash lab leak theory (opens Just the News)

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    The 'diary' compiled by GOP Sen. Rand Paul includes an anecdote about a phone call Dr. Fauci has with singer Barbara Streisand.

  5. BizPac Review

    As COVID deaths mounted, Fauci’s diaries tell a very different story (opens BizPac Review)

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    Newly released records kept by The Science™ himself revealed just how preoccupied Dr. Anthony Fauci was with “very flattering” coverage “becoming a star that outshines” the president. […]

  6. The Daily Wire

    Fauci’s Personal Diary Highlights Shocking Contradiction On COVID Fatality Rate (opens The Daily Wire)

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    Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former chief medical advisor to the president, appears to have misled Congress about the coronavirus fatality rate in the early days of the pandemic, making statements in private that contradicted his public testimony.

  7. Unmuzzled News

    Anthony Fauci Private COVID Diary Surfaced and Revealed What He Was Really Thinking (opens Unmuzzled News)

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    Anthony Fauci recorded the latest COVID death toll in his private diary – then kept writing. Six years…

  8. Conservative Review

    If You Thought Anthony Fauci Was An Egomaniac, Wait Until You Read His Covid Diary (opens Conservative Review)

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    It might seem frustrating, infuriating even — until you realize how important Fauci is. Just read his diary.

  9. Washington Times

    Fauci fixated on fame as COVID deaths mounted, diary reveals (opens Washington Times)

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    It was March 22, 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic was seriously biting, with more than 10,000 new cases and more than 125 new deaths -- and Dr. Anthony Fauci was obsessed with how much media attention he was getting.

  10. Townhall

  11. Blaze Media

    Diaries expose Fauci obsessing over his own fame during height of COVID as millions died (opens Blaze Media)

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    Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tried repeatedly in recent years to get the Justice Department to nail former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci over apparent false testimony before Congress in 2021.

  12. Phl17

    Fauci diary entries: 'Press is going wild with me' (opens Phl17)

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    Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci was keenly aware of the media's interest in him early on in the COVID-19 pandemic and considered some of the attention "flattering," according to diary entries released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)

  13. The Daily Signal

    Fauci Diaries Reveal Gloating About Lockdowns, Fame Seeking (opens The Daily Signal)

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    The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as early as January 2020 did not believe that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese wet market. He later publicly insisted that a wet market was the likely origin of the virus while dismissing a theory th…

  14. Breitbart News

    Fauci Diary Shows He Lied to the Public About Coronavirus Fatality Rate (opens Breitbart News)

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    Former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) chief Anthony Fauci publicly lied about the coronavirus’s fatality rate.

  15. New York Post

    Anthony Fauci admits in diary to COVID talks with indicted adviser he once disavowed (opens New York Post)

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    Fauci is scheduled to testify before Sen. Rand Paul's Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.

  16. The Center Square

    Fauci set to testify before Congress on COVID-19 pandemic, his prior testimony (opens The Center Square)

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    (The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will question Dr. Anthony Fauci Wednesday on his role during the COVID-19 pandemic and prior testimony he gave about it.

  17. Washington Examiner

    Fauci’s private COVID diaries: 6 takeaways on fame, prize money and the lab leak debate (opens Washington Examiner)

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    Anthony Fauci’s private writings from 2020 and beyond portray a public health official who was fixated on his growing celebrity while privately grappling with a pandemic response he believed was chaotic, leaderless, and consumed by internal rivalries.

  18. Forbes

    Fauci’s Diary: What He Said About Trump, His Own Fame And COVID Restrictions (opens Forbes)

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    Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a longtime critic of Dr. Anthony Fauci, released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci’s diaries, written while he advised the federal COVID response.

  19. NewsBusters

    Fauci Diary Dispels COVID Wet Market Origin Theory, Sen. Rand Paul Shows (opens NewsBusters)

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    Fauci Diary Dispels COVID Wet Market Origin Theory, Sen. Rand Paul Shows Senator Dr. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Saturday released much of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary on his webpage, “The Reading Room,” which the senator uses to display documents pertaining to the origins of COVID-19.

  20. Conservative Review

    Anthony Fauci LASHED OUT at Steve Deace in newly released diary entry — and Deace FIRES BACK (opens Conservative Review)

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    On Saturday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released a large batch of emails Anthony Fauci, the architect of the government's coronavirus response, sent to himself as a diary. In one of the entries, Fauci wrote about accusations made in a book co-written by BlazeTV host Steve Deace.

  21. The Hill

    Paul releases Fauci's diary entries ahead of hearing (opens The Hill)

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    Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Healthcare Health Care The Big Story Paul releases Fauci's diary entries ahead of hearing Former White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci will appear before the Senate this week for a hearing. Leading up to his appearance, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.

  22. Blaze Media

    Fauci diaries reveal shocking behind-the-scenes relationship with Jake Tapper (opens Blaze Media)

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    Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is letting Dr. Anthony Fauci speak for himself through a massive collection of "diary" entries during the peak years of the COVID pandemic — and the results have been potentially disastrous for Fauci's apparently carefully curated public image and for some of his associates…

  23. CBS News

    Sen. Ron Johnson on released Fauci diary entries (opens CBS News)

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    Ahead of Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony on Wednesday about the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul released thousands of entries from the diary of the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Republican Sen.

  24. Conservative Review

    Fauci diary bombshells: Glenn Beck dives into wildest lines from his just-released entries (opens Conservative Review)

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    In preparation for Anthony Fauci’s subpoenaed Senate testimony on COVID origins and response set to begin this coming Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released portions of the embattled doctor’s personal diaries and related emails/documents, highlighting his private doubts about a natural origin, d…

  25. Just the News

    Fauci diary shows he ate up press attention as he grew disdainful toward Trump: 'very dangerous man' (opens Just the News)

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    "Press is going wild with me," Fauci wrote in what what Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is calling his diary.

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