While telling the public that Covid-19 likely had zoonotic origins, Dr. Anthony Fauci privately discussed the likelihood it originated in a lab, notes kept by the former NIAID director reveal.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Saturday released Dr. Fauci’s “diary,” a massive collection of daily notes meticulously taken by the former Covid czar at the onset of the pandemic documenting concerns over a potential lab leak involving gain-of-function research.
“Before most Americans knew there was an origins debate, the government’s top infectious-disease official was already confronting the lab scenario,” Sen. Paul wrote in a summary.
In a Jan. 26, 2020 note, Fauci wrote, “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier,” proving that “The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes,” according to Sen. Paul.
The 1,140-page tranche of memos shows Fauci continued promoting the animal-to-human Covid origin narrative by leading an international scientific origins inquiry, “helping design it from the first night,” Sen. Paul wrote.
The notes suggested that a Feb. 1 phone call with various US and international health officials was later misrepresented by Fauci as he described only two people arguing for a natural origin, while several others entertained the lab-leak scenario.
Fauci continued to hold firm to the animal-to-human transmission possibility, in April “telling the country that the virus was ‘totally consistent’ with a natural species jump,” according to Sen. Paul.
“By May, he was brushing aside a laboratory accident as a circular argument.”
When the FBI noted they believed a lab-leak theory was possible, Fauci also pushed back on the assessment by directing investigators toward his own experts.
Essentially, Fauci’s writings show he privately believed, “The scientists were staring at the furin-cleavage site and talking about deliberate insertion. If the virus came from a lab, an accidental release was considered the more likely scenario,” Sen. Paul summarized.
However, publicly “Fauci said the virus was ‘totally consistent’ with an animal-to-human jump. Weeks later, he dismissed a natural virus escaping from a lab as a ‘circular argument.'”
Sen. Paul also highlighted various key passages from the memos on X.
1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
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. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/58LvmeYkCN
2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: "Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier."
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes. pic.twitter.com/mz0OzcPHgg
3/9 Feb. 1, 2020. The call that produced Proximal Origin. Twelve scientists.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
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. pic.twitter.com/vFg79if4oB
4/9 Feb. 3, 2020. Fauci calls George Gao, head of China's CDC.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
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.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
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. pic.twitter.com/wNNW7hdkEN
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.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
His diary: "I feel much better now that he is in total support of what I have been saying." pic.twitter.com/Palg50H1R5
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."
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
He adds he keeps "an open mind" — then immediately: two possibilities "does not mean that they are… pic.twitter.com/Jzddf53znh
8/9 July 7: Fauci tells the NSC to go work with Andersen, Holmes, Garry, and Rambaut.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
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. pic.twitter.com/bmuNZkGfWM
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.
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
Asking who funded the research is not a conspiracy theory. It's oversight. pic.twitter.com/ZgjIrsyAam
The “diary” comes as Sen. Paul on Tuesday released chat messages sent between authors of Nature Medicine medical journal’s Proximal Origin paper, which showed they had doubts about whether Covid originated in a lab or came from a bat.
Sen. Paul has posted the diary and the messages at his U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs “Reading Room,” documenting his ongoing investigation into Covid’s origins and the government’s apparent cover-up of dangerous Gain-of-Function research.
Fauci is set to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Sen. Paul on Wednesday, July 29.
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