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5 min readDear Diary, They Lied About Everything
The Fauci diaries—Anthony Fauci's personal notes from the early COVID-19 pandemic—have been released, and they contain entries that directly contradict what he told the American public on television and under oath. In February 2020, Fauci wrote that the coronavirus case fatality rate was likely 0.2 to 0.3 percent, comparable to a bad influenza. One month later, he went on Sean Hannity's show and told viewers the mortality rate was 2 to 2.5 percent—roughly ten times higher. The discrepancy is not a small forecasting error. It is a documented, deliberate inflation of danger at the exact moment when governments were deciding whether to shut down schools, businesses, and daily life.
What the Diary Actually Shows
The most damaging entries are straightforward. On February 1, 2020, Fauci recorded a phone call with former CDC director Tom Frieden: "He and I are on the same page thinking that this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility, and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867, making the case fatality rate more like 0.2 to 0.3% rather than two percent." That private assessment matches what skeptics were saying publicly at the time—and what got them labeled as purveyors of misinformation.
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What you'll learn
- 1 Main Outline
- 2 (00:33) **"Dear Diary" Opening – The Fauci Diary Is Out** - Bongino introduces the main topic: Anthony Fauci's personal diary has been released, revealing he privately admitted to lying while publicly presenting a different story.
- 3 (04:07) **The Opening Bell: Fauci and the "Trust the Experts" Era** - Bongino launches into a detailed critique of Fauci's COVID-era credibility, establishing the pattern of deception that the diary now confirms.
- 4 (10:06) **The Core Revelation: Fauci Lied About the Fatality Rate** - Bongino presents the diary's most damning admission: Fauci privately recorded a 0.2-0.3% mortality rate while publicly claiming 2%, a tenfold exaggeration.
- 5 (14:39) **Rand Paul Releases the Diary – The Specific Evidence** - Bongino details how Senator Rand Paul, as chairman of the relevant committee, released Fauci's diary ahead of his congressional testimony, providing the public with direct proof of deception.
- 6 (20:29) **The Lab Leak Cover-Up: Fauci Suppressed the Truth** - Bongino reveals that Fauci's diary shows he knew the virus likely came from a lab leak, not a wet market, yet publicly derided that theory as a "conspiracy theory" and had social media platforms ban anyone who suggested it.
- 7 (31:19) **Rules for Thee, Not for Me: Fauci's Dinners with Jake Tapper** - Bongino exposes the hypocrisy of Fauci and CNN's Jake Tapper having private dinners together while publicly warning Americans against small household gatherings.
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Show Notes
In this episode, guest host Shawn Farash breaks down new revelations from the COVID scandal from Dr. Anthony Fauci's uncovered diary, plus Trump makes another move to save the SAVE Act.
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