Posted on 07/30/2026 9:33:00 PM PDT by lasereye
Mother Jones on Dr. Anthony Fauci:
The diary entries contain plenty of cringeworthy moments—Fauci congratulating himself on how famous he had become, for example, and basking in the attention of female celebrities like Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand. What they don’t contain—much to the dismay of Paul and Fauci’s other critics—is any kind of smoking gun proving that the public health leader deliberately misled the American people.
I wonder what Mother Jones would consider a smoking gun. On February 9th, 2020, appearing on the Newt Gingrich podcast “Newt’s world,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said the idea that Covid-19 came from a lab was a “conspiracy theory… without any scientific basis.”
This was eight days after Fauci took part in a conference call with eleven other prominent scientists, including NIH Director Francis Collins, Wellcome Trust Director Jeremy Farrar, UK Chief Scientific Adviser Patrick Vallance, Scripps Research Translational Institute Director Kristian Anderson, Germany’s Christian Drosten, University of Sydney Professor Edward Holmes, the University of Edinburgh’s Andrew Rambaut, Tulane Virology Professor Robert Garry, University of Dundee Professor Mike Ferguson, and Ron Fouchier and M.P.G. Koopmans from the Erasmus Medical Center.
Thanks to the diary, we now know that just three of the scientists in that call — Fauci himself, plus the German Drosten and gain-of-function expert Fouchier — advocated for natural origin. Here’s how Fauci characterized the others:
“The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible, and given the fact that Dr. Zheng-Li Shi at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in GOF in coronaviruses to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor, we could not let this go.”
This is Fauci in writing explaining that 9 of 12 scientists at a key meeting he attended at the beginning of the pandemic felt that “deliberate insertion” of a key mutation was possible, in part because a prominent Chinese scientist known to all had been working on that exact sequencing problem just miles from where the first cases were reported. To repeat the smoking gun line: “Dr. Zheng-Li Shi at the University of Wuhan has been working for years in [gain-of-function] to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor.”
For Fauci to subsequently say in public that the notion of laboratory release was without “scientific basis” was clearly deceptive. It was deceptive when at a White House briefing on April 18th he said, “the mutations that [Covid] took to get to the point where it is now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human.” It was deceptive not to tell the public he’d been in constant communication with the authors of a Nature Medicine paper he kept citing as proof of this theory, authors who described him as having “prompted” the paper to begin with.
Fauci’s deception was proven long before the release of the diary, anyway. Three years ago a House Committee released an email by Fauci referencing that same February 1st meeting, noting that scientist described the mutations as “most unusual to have evolved naturally,” resulting in a “suspicion that this mutation was intentionally inserted.” Why did they think this? In Fauci’s own words:
The suspicion was heightened by the fact that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain-of-function experiments to determine the molecular mechanisms associated with bat viruses adapting to human infection, and the outbreak originated in Wuhan.
This is the public health official who repeatedly told the public he believed the virus evolved naturally and denounced the lab leak theory as ignorant nonsense. Did we ever hear him talk about leading scientists remarking to him about the novelty of the Covid-19 mutation? Did we hear him mention that his close colleague Jeremy Farrar called a 2105 paper written by the University of North Carolina’s Ralph Baric with China’s Zhi Zhengli “a how-to-manual for building the coronavirus in a laboratory”? Its title, after all, was “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence.”
MoJo wasn’t the only outlet to shrug at the hearing and the diaries. NPR chose the “chilling effect” thesis, quoting New Jersey Senator Andy Kim in saying the Fauci hearings might dissuade “the next generation of people who might consider stepping up to serve our nation.”
CNN ran multiple iterations of the argument that Senator Rand Paul’s questioning of Fauci was just sour grapes, just the price of fame. “This is an assault on science and scientists, and, unfortunately, Dr. Fauci is in that seat,” said guest Dr. Scott Ratzan on the channel. “Thirty-eight years of service to the country, one of the best-known scientists in infectious disease, unfortunately, has taken a lot of heat for… issues that were not fully his.”
The Drive-By Media and Useful Idiots who believe that the Flip-Flopping Fascist Fear Fuhrer Fauci is an honest person, those people also believe that Hillary is a nice person.
Fauci a legend? WTF. What would be legendary is vigilantes stringing his ass up in a sower apple tree. IMO
Evil man solely focused on himself while thousands had already been pronounced dead.
He regarded himself as all truth and science while the sycophantic MSM was shilling his every word to be obeyed without question.
Mother Jones and Old Media are more guilty of deaths than he is.
The Leftist Media spin is, “Republicans made lots of serious accusations against Fauci, but presented no credible evidence”
“I will invoke my right under the fifth amendment to refrain from answering your questions”
One hundred and eleven times. He must be taking classes from Hillary!. Can’t recall?
No. He just took the fifth for every question. His personal diaries recall. He WROTE IT DOWN. His diaries LIED I guess.
Please DOJ prosecute.
so the left continues to cover for big pharma and China...
What these Fauci Papers also didn’t contain was any concern about the millions of people worldwide that were dying from the disease, and what efforts, if any, Fauci was undertaking to contain the deaths.
You would think that someone writing a memoir about his great leadership in dealing with a worldwide pandemic might at least mention what he was doing to stop it. Was he doing anything effective at all?
Seems I remember his start was with the HIV discovery, and he worked tirelessly to make it appear it was a GENERAL diaster, and not closely tied to the homosexual people who were practicing.. you know.... Correct me if I am wrong, but anyone who even suggested maybe we should warn MALES not to insert their private parts up a guys kazoo will likely result in HIV.
Sen Paul opening statement no notes was superior
Legendarily stupid and vain - he wrote his “diary” on a government computer and emailed it to himself as the basis of a book he hoped to cash in on...
The left, including the media, is too invested in St. Fauci to turn on him. If the left admits Fauci was a totalitarian fraud, they have to acknowledge their role in the whole plandemic.
THIS!
Fauci, virologist, saw the Covid-19 as an opportunity to gain celebrity and power that would never come again.
The actual number of Covid-19 deaths probably will never be told. Too many natural and accidental deaths were attributed to the virus to pad the numbers. (Car accident? tested positive during autopsy. Death due to Covid-19)
This Fauxdemic disaster changed our nation forever.
Fauci thought he had the opportunity for fame earlier during the AIDS epidemic. He claimed to have discovered the HIV virus himself. Unfortunately for him it finally came to light that he was using materials that he actually had received from the laboratory of Luc Montagnier in France. It was Montagnier who finally got the Nobel but only after a lot of controversy and hard feelings.
Years later when covid came out it was Montagnier who publicly stated that covid was a man-made virus and not something that came naturally from bats. It was a very controvertial statement at the time because Fauci kept claiming otherwise and the media and other academics trashed anyone who disagreed with Fauci. Montagnier wouldn’t back down. He said he already had the Nobel and a long history of solid research and he wasn’t threatened by Fauci’s claims.
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