Fauci's Diaries: Celebrity Crushes, Self-Pity, and Perjury Fears
Left says
- •The diary entries reflect a public health official navigating an unprecedented crisis while enduring sustained political attacks, death threats, and pressure campaigns, and the personal reflections humanize someone who became a symbol rather than treated as an ordinary person.
- •Fauci's concerns about a coordinated political effort to undermine trust in institutions and discredit him personally deserve consideration given documented harassment, threats against his family, and organized disinformation campaigns during the pandemic.
- •Focusing on diary entries about celebrity encounters or personal feelings trivializes the substantive scientific and public health legacy of a career spanning decades and multiple administrations.
- •Legal experts note the pardon issue is a serious constitutional question that shouldn't be reduced to a partisan gotcha moment ahead of testimony.
Right says
- •The diary reveals a public official who saw himself as beyond criticism, equating any scrutiny of his decisions, agency funding, or public statements with attacks on 'science' itself.
- •Fauci's private acknowledgment that the pandemic's fatality rate was lower than what he stated publicly, alongside his dismissal of credible lab-leak questions as conspiracy theories, raises serious accountability concerns.
- •His refusal to even read critical analyses of his own record before dismissing them as 'nonsense' exemplifies a broader pattern of shielding powerful officials from oversight.
- •The prospect that Fauci's Biden-era pardon may not protect him from prosecution for any false statements made during this week's testimony raises the stakes of the hearing considerably.
Common Take
High Consensus- Rand Paul's committee obtained and released more than 1,100 pages of Fauci's personal pandemic diary ahead of his subpoenaed Senate testimony.
- The diary documents Fauci's extensive interactions with celebrities, including Julia Roberts, Bono, and others, during the pandemic.
- Fauci's Biden-era pardon covers actions before its issuance but legal experts across the spectrum agree it would not shield new false statements made under oath this week.
- The diary contains Fauci's private views on lab-leak theories, gain-of-function research questions, and his conflicts with critics and the Trump administration.
The Arguments
Left argues
Fauci endured genuine death threats, harassment of his family, and coordinated disinformation campaigns during the pandemic, and his diary reflects the natural human toll of being scapegoated while trying to manage an unprecedented public health crisis.
Right counters
Acknowledging real threats against Fauci doesn't require accepting his framing that all scrutiny—including legitimate congressional oversight, FOIA requests, and lab-leak questions from credentialed scientists—was part of the same illegitimate attack; conflating harassment with accountability is itself the problem critics identify.
Right argues
Fauci's diary shows he privately acknowledged the fatality rate was lower than what he stated publicly and dismissed credible lab-leak inquiries as conspiracy theories while refusing to even read critical analyses of his record, suggesting a pattern of shielding himself from legitimate scrutiny rather than engaging with it.
Left counters
Public health communication during a fast-moving crisis often involves erring toward caution given uncertain and evolving data, and dismissing fringe theories equating him with bioweapon creation is different from refusing all scientific debate, even if his rhetoric sometimes blurred that line.
Left argues
Reducing a decades-long career spanning multiple administrations and major public health achievements to diary entries about celebrity crushes and personal insecurities trivializes substantive policy debates that deserve serious examination.
Right counters
The diary entries aren't a distraction from accountability—they're revealing precisely because they show a man who saw himself as a celebrity-validated hero even as he made consequential, sometimes contradictory public statements about the pandemic that Americans are still living with the effects of.
Right argues
The prospect that Fauci's pardon does not cover potential perjury during this week's testimony raises the stakes of the hearing considerably, since any knowingly false statement made under oath now would constitute a new, unprotected federal offense.
Left counters
Treating an anticipated hearing as a perjury trap set up in advance by political opponents risks turning testimony into a partisan gotcha exercise rather than a genuine pursuit of truth, and legal experts note this is a serious constitutional question, not a simple partisan talking point.
Left argues
Fauci's concern about a coordinated political effort to undermine institutional trust deserves consideration given the documented scale of harassment and disinformation campaigns targeting him specifically during the pandemic.
Right counters
Fauci's own diary entry calling attacks on him part of a far-right plot to 'destroy democracy' reveals a self-aggrandizing worldview that treats himself as synonymous with truth and science, which is a strikingly immodest claim for someone in an admittedly imperfect public health apparatus.
Challenge Questions
These questions target genuine internal contradictions — meant to provoke honest reflection.
Right asks Left
“If sustained criticism and death threats are cause to view scrutiny as illegitimate persecution, how should the public distinguish between harassment that deserves condemnation and legitimate oversight—like FOIA requests or congressional subpoenas—that Fauci's diary suggests he treated identically?”
Left asks Right
“If Fauci's private acknowledgment of a lower fatality rate than he stated publicly is presented as damning evidence of dishonesty, how does that square with the reality that public health messaging often involves communicating uncertain, evolving estimates during a crisis—and what would honest public communication under uncertainty actually look like by this standard?”
Outlier Report
Left Fringe
Figures like Rachel Maddow or MSNBC commentators who treat any criticism of Fauci as right-wing disinformation represent maybe 15-20% of the left, an increasingly narrow position as even some Democrats acknowledge messaging missteps.
Right Fringe
Figures like Alex Berenson or fringe accounts pushing the idea Fauci deliberately created COVID as a bioweapon represent a small but vocal 10-15% of the right; most conservative criticism focuses on oversight and candor rather than conspiracy theories.
Noise Assessment
High noise ratio - the Julia Roberts/celebrity angle is being amplified for entertainment value by right-leaning outlets while the substantive accountability questions (lab leak, fatality rate, pardon scope) reflect more genuine, sustained public concern that predates this diary release.
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<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/puppy-love-diary-exposes-fauci-s-crush-on-julia-roberts.png?id=67546963&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C0" /><br /><br /><p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has released more than <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf">1,100 pages</a> of "Tony's Diary" — Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal record from the COVID era — ahead of Fauci's testimony Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.<br /></p><p>Amid entries on virus origins, case counts, and infighting with the Trump White House, the name of one particular "pretty woman" recurs with striking regularity: Julia Roberts. </p><p class="pull-quote">'She ... said that every time she sees me her throat gets dry and she gets nervous.'</p><p>Fauci wrote her name at least seven times across the released pages.</p><p>On May 13, 2020, Fauci wrote up an Instagram Live arranged by the ONE Campaign. Roberts, he said, put her hands over her mouth when he appeared on screen and gasped, "Oh my God. It's Dr. Fauci; he is here," before telling him he was her personal hero.</p><p>A <a href="https://x.com/SaraCarterDC/status/2082076126671745229" target="_blank">clip</a> of their conversation shows Roberts describing Fauci as "maybe the coolest man on the planet" and a "true north, I think, for a lot of people."</p><p>He was a little starstruck himself. "She was absolutely fabulous," Fauci wrote of Roberts.</p><p>The two went on to discuss COVID-19's toll on the developing world. He described her as "totally down to earth" and closed the entry with, "Great experience!!"</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/faucis-pandemic-diary-reveals-what-was-really-on-his-mind-as-the-bodies-began-to-drop">Diaries expose Fauci obsessing over his own fame during height of COVID as millions died</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-16x9"> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" id="37e99" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=67546972&width=1245&height=700&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C261" /> <small class="image-media media-photo-credit">Amy Sussman/Getty Images</small></p><p>In an entry dated October 14, 2020, that otherwise concerns a case surge across 30-plus states and a dispute with Dr. Scott Atlas over herd immunity, Fauci wedged in: "A FEW DAYS AGO, Julia Roberts sent me [a] beautiful flower arrangement. I emailed her my thanks."</p><p>On February 10, 2021, Fauci wrote about Roberts presenting him amfAR's Award of Courage virtually from her California breakfast room. "When my image came up on the screen she gasped and said that every time she sees me her throat gets dry and she gets nervous and excused herself to go into the kitchen and get a glass of water," he wrote.</p><p>He also called her "charming, natural, fun, and amazingly beautiful."</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/fauci-diary-bombshells-glenn-beck-dives-into-wildest-lines">Fauci diary bombshells: Glenn Beck dives into wildest lines from his just-released entries</a></strong></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-16x9"> <img alt="" class="rm-shortcode" id="b3f68" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/image.jpg?id=67546960&width=1245&height=700&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C0%2C0%2C521" /> <small class="image-media media-photo-credit">Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images</small></p><p>The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee obtained Fauci's diary as part of its ongoing investigation into COVID-19 and federally funded gain-of-function research. Fauci declined to testify voluntarily this time, so the committee <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/congress/fauci-testify-front-senate-homeland-security-panel-next-week" target="_blank">subpoenaed him</a> for the Wednesday hearing.</p><p><em><em><em><em></em>Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. </em></em><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/newsletters/theblaze-articlelink" target="_self"><em>Sign up here</em></a><em><em>!</em></em></em></p>
<img src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/saint-anthony-faucis-index-of-forbidden-questions.jpg?id=67547080&width=1245&height=700&coordinates=0%2C123%2C0%2C15" /><br /><br /><p>Anthony Fauci’s <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/faucis-pandemic-diary-reveals-what-was-really-on-his-mind-as-the-bodies-began-to-drop" target="_self">newly released diary</a> contains a perfect little monument to bureaucratic vanity.</p><p>On April 24, 2021, Fauci noted that <a href="https://www.blazetv.com/series/5qrRSBLHHW7g-steve-deace-show" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">BlazeTV host Steve Deace</a> and Todd Erzen had published “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Faucian-Bargain-Powerful-Dangerous-Bureaucrat/dp/163758198X" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Faucian Bargain</a>,” which dubbed him “the most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in American history.”</p><p class="pull-quote">This is how institutions manufacture ignorance. They don’t always bury the evidence. More often than not, they simply declare the people seeking it disreputable.</p><p>Fauci had a devastating rebuttal. He did not read it.</p><p>“It is a cheap paperback of 179 pages which I will not even read,” Fauci wrote, before announcing that it contained “the same sort of nonsense that the other conspiracy theorists have been saying about me.”</p><p>Splendid! “Science” had spoken!</p><p>No evidence needed review. No argument required an answer. Fauci glanced at the title, identified the authors, and reached a conclusion with the serene confidence of a man accustomed to having cable news anchors treat his opinions as tablets from Sinai.</p><p>Two months later, Fauci explained the theology to NBC’s Chuck Todd.</p><p>“Attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science,”<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/09/fauci-blasts-preposterous-covid-conspiracies-accuses-critics-of-attacks-on-science.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> he said</a>.</p><p>The arrogance of this guy!</p><p>Louis XIV supposedly declared, “<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/286184" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">I am the state.</a>” Fauci updated the formula for the administrative age: <em><em>I am science</em></em>. Question my judgment and you have attacked knowledge itself. Ask about my agency’s grants and you have declared war on reason itself. Publish a critical paperback and the scientific method goes into cardiac arrest.<strong></strong></p><p>My friend Lloyd Billingsley has a term for this: “<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/white-coat-supremacy-forever" target="_self">white-coat supremacy.</a>”</p><p>It describes the belief that credentials confer not merely expertise but authority — political, moral, and sometimes almost priestly authority. The white coat becomes a vestment. The bureaucrat wearing it may issue commands, avoid scrutiny, and treat dissent as heresy. Citizens are not expected to weigh his arguments. They are expected to comply.</p><p>Sadly, millions did.</p><p>Fauci’s diary reads like the private scripture of white-coat supremacy.</p><p>Presidents praise him. Governors seek his counsel. Famous people call at all hours. Diners applaud when he picks up hamburgers. Fauci records each ovation with the dutiful embarrassment of a man cursed to remember every compliment.</p><p>Critics receive less delicate treatment. They are “crazy,” “far-right,” “preposterous,” “dishonest,” or simply beneath his notice. Deace and Erzen wrote a book criticizing the scope and consequences of Fauci’s power. Fauci refused to read it and then waved it off as irrational. Their standing settled the argument before the argument began.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/conspiracy-theory-is-just-media-code-for-we-hope-this-never-comes-out" target="_self"><strong>‘Conspiracy theory’ is just media code for ‘we hope this never comes out’</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-16x9"> <img alt="'Conspiracy theory' is just media code for 'we hope this never comes out'" class="rm-shortcode" id="07f60" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/conspiracy-theory-is-just-media-code-for-we-hope-this-never-comes-out.jpg?id=67547061&width=1245&height=700&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C80%2C0%2C51" /> <small class="image-media media-photo-credit">Matt Cardy/Getty Images</small></p><p>The same method governed Fauci’s use of “conspiracy theory.” Some claims aimed at him were a bit out there: that he was Hillary Clinton’s “mole,” that he and Bill Gates put microchips in vaccines, or that he personally created the coronavirus and carried it into the United States.</p><p>But Fauci placed fantasies alongside <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-pulls-the-curtain-on-faucis-covid-narrative-gives-would-be-prosecutors-red-meat" target="_self">legitimate questions</a> about a Wuhan lab leak, NIH money reaching the Wuhan Institute of Virology, gain-of-function research, deficient oversight, his testimony before Congress, and government pressure on social media companies.</p><p>Those claims do not belong in the same category.</p><p>A microchip in a syringe might be a fantasy, but NIH funding reaching Wuhan is a fact. A <em><em>deliberate</em></em> bioweapon release remains unsupported. A laboratory accident remains unresolved but perfectly plausible. Even the FBI favored a laboratory origin. Federal investigators found serious lapses in monitoring the EcoHealth Alliance grant.</p><p>Fauci knew — or should have known — the distinctions.</p><p>His diary records that on January 31, 2020, serious scientists discussed unusual features of SARS-CoV-2, possible deliberate insertion, and accidental laboratory release. He distinguished that conversation from a flimsy paper claiming HIV sequences had been inserted into the virus.</p><p>At first, the categories remained intact. One claim was crazy but the other warranted investigation.</p><p>But once the political stakes became obvious, the categories fell to pieces.</p><p>Soon, congressional oversight became evidence-free conspiracy theorizing. FOIA requests came from cranks and conspiracy theorists. Scientists who challenged the approved account became ideologues, attention-seekers, or <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/karma-is-a-b-trump-taps-epidemiologist-targeted-by-biden-admin-and-censored-online-to-run-nih" target="_self">villains</a> subject to censorship. The FBI, which favored the lab-leak hypothesis, supposedly had “no idea” what it was talking about.</p><p><strong>RELATED: </strong><a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/fauci-diaries-reveal-shocking-behind-the-scenes-relationship-with-jake-tapper" target="_self"><strong>Fauci diaries reveal shocking behind-the-scenes relationship with Jake Tapper</strong></a></p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-16x9"> <img alt="Fauci diaries reveal shocking behind-the-scenes relationship with Jake Tapper" class="rm-shortcode" id="ec98e" src="https://www.theblaze.com/media-library/fauci-diaries-reveal-shocking-behind-the-scenes-relationship-with-jake-tapper.jpg?id=67547071&width=1245&height=700&quality=50&coordinates=0%2C30%2C0%2C77" /> <small class="image-media media-photo-credit">Skip Bolen/Getty Images</small></p><p>And Steve Deace wrote a book Fauci refused to read.</p><p>That little detail gives away the game. “Conspiracy theory” did not describe the evidence. It determined <em><em>whose evidence could be considered</em></em>. Once Fauci assigned you to the crank file, documents became “disinformation,” questions became “harassment,” and investigation became an “attack” on “science” — meaning an attack on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086G7DGV4" target="_blank">St. Anthony Fauci</a> himself.</p><p>This is how institutions manufacture ignorance. They don’t always bury the evidence. More often than not, they simply declare the people seeking it disreputable, then point to the lack of approved inquiry as proof that no evidence exists. Neat trick. It worked, too.</p><p>Deace and Erzen argued that Fauci had become dangerously powerful and utterly unaccountable. Fauci answered by dismissing them unread, classifying them as irrational, and announcing that criticism of the man was criticism of science.</p><p>I hate to spoil a 179-page paperback, but that sounds an awful lot like confirmation.</p>
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Anthony Fauci is a hero or a villain. Either way, he's somehow a bobblehead too. We just need to make Fauci boring again.