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5 min readFauci’s Diary: The Private Record of a Public Figure
Anthony Fauci kept a personal diary spanning late 2019 through his retirement in December 2022—1,100 pages that Senator Rand Paul recently released in full. What the diary reveals is not a scientist quietly working behind the scenes, but a man obsessed with his own image, convinced of his centrality to the pandemic response, and willing to privately acknowledge things he publicly denied.
The diary functions as a scrapbook as much as a journal. Of its 641 press-related entries, the overwhelming majority are articles about Fauci himself. He preserved a Washington Post column comparing Rand Paul’s cross-examination of him to “watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner.” He kept a Joan Baez portrait calling him an American hero, cookies from Joe and Jill Biden inscribed “you are our hero,” Julia Roberts gasping on Instagram that he was her personal hero, and Marion Wright Edelman dubbing him a “true national treasure.”
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- 1 (00:00) **Episode Open & Mint Mobile Ad** - Ryan Reynolds narrates a Mint Mobile ad.
- 2 (00:31) **StreetEasy & Facebook Ads** - Two more ad reads for StreetEasy and Facebook.
- 3 (01:32) **The Fauci Diary: Ego as the Smoking Gun** - Ben Shapiro introduces the core thesis: Anthony Fauci's personal diary proves his ego and hypocrisy drove his pandemic decisions.
- 4 (04:42) **Fauci's "Red Light Syndrome" and Self-Importance** - Shapiro details Fauci's fame-seeking behavior during the pandemic.
- 5 (07:19) **Media Coordination and COVID Origins Cover-Up** - The diary reveals Fauci's coordination with the Biden administration and his early knowledge about the virus's origin.
- 6 (10:34) **Lying About Lockdowns and the Real Death Rate** - Shapiro contrasts Fauci's private boasts with his public denials about recommending lockdowns.
- 7 (12:51) **The Fauci Lesson: Ego, Federalism, and Checks and Balances** - Shapiro summarizes the broader political lesson from the Fauci saga.
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Show Notes
Anthony Fauci’s diaries drop… and they show a malignant narcissist who suppressed vital information; a spate of terror attacks from members of the Religion of Peace globalize the Intifada; and it’s time for President Trump to fire the leakers.
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