{"success":true,"data":{"id":"840247fb-dd95-417c-8572-3b2b2fa075c9","title":"Fauci’s Own Diary Undercuts His Public Dismissal Of COVID Lab Leak","summary":"- Prefer Daily Caller \\\\ \\\\ on Google Search Alexander Pease Contributor July 26, 20264:56 PM ET Font Size: Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has released parts of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary revealing some of what he really believed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr.","content":"- [Prefer Daily Caller \\\\\n\\\\\non Google Search](https://thedailycaller.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/46287084083227-How-do-I-make-the-Daily-Caller-my-preferred-news-source-on-Google?utm_medium=preferred_search&utm_source=website&utm_campaign)\n\n[Alexander Pease](https://dailycaller.com/author/APease \"View More Articles By Alexander Pease\") Contributor\n\nJuly 26, 20264:56 PM ET\n\nFont Size:\n\nRepublican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has released parts of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary revealing some of what he really believed during the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n[Dr. Fauci](https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/23/dr-anthony-fauci-covid-19-origins-gain-of-function-research-suppress-evidence-media-bias/), who served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during President Trump’s first term, recounted a February 1, 2020 [conference](https://www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/2026.07.24_Tonys-Diary-Package.pdf) call with several high-level scientists who were divided over the possibility of “deliberate insertion,” the idea that Wuhan lab workers intentionally added a protein spike, genetically engineering the COVID virus.\n\nTwitter Embed\n\n[Senator Rand Paul\\\\\n\\\\\n![](https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2066167204845060096/3uDZ8Gbu_bigger.jpg)](https://twitter.com/SenRandPaul)\n\n·\n\n1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.\nWhat he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.\n\nToday I'm releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. ![🧵](https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f9f5.svg)\n\nCopy link\n\n> 1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.\n> What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.\n> Today I'm releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022. 🧵 [pic.twitter.com/58LvmeYkCN](https://t.co/58LvmeYkCN)\n> — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) [July 25, 2026](https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2081093786185171131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nSome of the scientists believed that deliberate insertion was possible considering how Dr. Zheng-Li Shi of the University of [Wuhan](https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/11/odni-cia-ralph-baric-wuhan-covid-pandemic/) had worked for years on gain of function research in coronaviruses in an effort “to allow adaptation of the spike protein to bind to the human ACE2 receptor,” Fauci recalled. “We could not let this go **,”** Fauci added.\n\nTwitter Embed\n\n·\n\n![🚨](https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg)Fauci’s own diary just dropped.\n\nFeb 1, 2020. The secret call that produced \"Proximal Origin.\"\n\n12 scientists on the line.\n\nOnly 2 thought the virus was natural.\n\nThe other 10 — per Fauci's own notes — \"felt that deliberate insertion was possible.\"\n\nThey flagged Shi Zhengli's [Show more](https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2081413611289976913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2081413611289976913%7Ctwgr%5Ec8478d11271d79850b4e3c3d400489d3a55b4084%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2026%2F07%2F26%2Ffaucis-own-diary-undercuts-his-public-dismissal-of-covid-lab-leak%2F)\n\nCopy link\n\n> 🚨Fauci’s own diary just dropped.\n> Feb 1, 2020. The secret call that produced \"Proximal Origin.\"\n> 12 scientists on the line.\n> Only 2 thought the virus was natural.\n> The other 10 — per Fauci's own notes — \"felt that deliberate insertion was possible.\"\n> They flagged Shi Zhengli's… [pic.twitter.com/t3YW8SdXA2](https://t.co/t3YW8SdXA2)\n> — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) [July 26, 2026](https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/2081413611289976913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nA day before the conference call, scientists reported concerns that the “spike protein could not have occurred naturally since it would require an evolutionary jump that they found nowhere in bat isolates,” according to his diary.\n\n“They bring up the possibility that this could have been deliberately inserted and either accidentally released or deliberately released by a crazy person in the lab, the former being the most likely,” Fauci wrote. “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.” [**(RELATED: The Fauci Files: Five Explosive Findings Declassified By Tulsi Gabbard**](https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/19/anthony-fauci-five-explosive-findings-tulsi-gabbard-docs/).\n\nTwitter Embed\n\n[Senator Rand Paul\\\\\n\\\\\n\n·\n\n·\n\n[Senator Rand Paul\\\\\n\\\\\n\n·\n\n2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: \"Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.\"\n\nThat is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes.\n\nCopy link\n\n> 2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: \"Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.\"\n> That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes. [pic.twitter.com/mz0OzcPHgg](https://t.co/mz0OzcPHgg)\n> — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) [July 25, 2026](https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/2081093794028519738?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)\n\nDespite taking the possibility of deliberate engineering of the COVID virus seriously in private, his tune was much different in [public](https://dailycaller.com/2024/08/07/anthony-bellotti-joni-ernst-mask-fauci-covid-conspiracy-wuhan-lab/). Months after his conference call, Fauci completely wrote off such concerns in a May 2020 [interview](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd) with National Geographic, calling the lab leak claims “circular arguments.” Sen. Paul pointed out that “Fauci said the virus was ‘totally consistent’ with an animal-to-human jump.” Other scientists and health leaders in Fauci’s circle, however, were more skeptical.\n\nSen. Paul has been [targeting](https://dailycaller.com/2023/12/10/kentucky-senator-rand-paul-slams-anthony-fauci-orchestrated-coverup-covid-pandemic-calls-out-central-intelligence-agency-visits/) Dr. Fauci regarding the origins of COVID-19 for years, demanding the [declassification](https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/11/anthony-fauci-intel-community-declassified-docs/) of official COVID-era documents and communications connected to Fauci. The two have [verbally sparred](https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/11/rand-paul-anthony-fauci-lab-leak-theory-covid-19-coronavirus/) at congressional hearings over Fauci’s alleged suppression of the lab leak theory.\n\nDr. Fauci will testify next Wednesday in front of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee after being subpoenaed, and will face panel Sen. Paul.\n\n_1__1__1_\n\nWe’re excited to announce that the Daily Caller is upgrading its commenting system to provide improved functionality and a better overall user experience.\n\nThank you for being a valued part of the Daily Caller community!\n\nIf you have any question, [please contact support](https://support.dailycaller.com/)\n\n0\n\nPowered by\n\nContact COOL Media\n\nSubmit\n\n## Checkout\n\nApply\n\n1\\. Account:\n\n3\\. Accountexample@example.com\n\n2\\. Order Summary\nView\n\nSubscription Type\n\n### Patriot\n\nUnlimited digital access to The Daily Caller\n\n4\\. Payment\n\n3\\. 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