Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth Amendment roughly 111 times on July 29. He walked out of Sen. Rand Paul’s Homeland Security Committee hearing without answering a single question. That was not the end of the story.
Paul has scheduled a committee vote on holding Fauci in contempt for Thursday, August 6. The Kentucky senator argues that a sweeping pardon from Biden does not erase the duty to answer Congress. Invoking the Fifth on basic factual questions – especially when the diary itself was written on government computers – looks like obstruction to him. No one knows yet whether the Justice Department will step in. However, a federal pardon does not stop state prosecutors.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier opened an investigation the same day as the hearing. He cited “lack of candor” and possible physical and economic harm to Floridians. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill soon said her state would join Florida and Alabama. She pointed out that earlier sworn statements in which Fauci claimed he could not remember key details now sit next to diary entries he wrote at the time.
Those diaries were government records pulled from eleven different servers. State attorneys general are checking whether the records, combined with prior testimony, support charges under state law. The biggest hurdles remain jurisdiction, statutes of limitations on old cases, and the high bar for proving intentional deceit. The fact that the diary entries were written day by day may help overcome some of those barriers.
Jeffrey Tucker has been reading the full release carefully, one day at a time. He keeps warning that quick AI summaries and cherry-picked excerpts are not enough. The three-year record has to be studied entry by entry. “It is a look inside the state/corporatist system possibly without precedent,” Tucker wrote after finishing the volumes. He describes the overall arc he saw – Fauci starts by climbing socially and feeding his ego, moves into deliberate deception and growing malice, and ends in a state of burned-out defeat, yet Fauci himself only partially recognized that he had lost. The “exhausted defeat” is Tucker’s characterization of the later entries (not something Fauci openly admits).
Tucker also flagged an August 13, 2022 entry in which Fauci noted that officials could not admit the shots failed to stop infection and transmission because that admission would weaken the legal case for mandates. Rand Paul repeated the same point – that is not science; it is a cover-up meant to justify force.
The public can now read the material itself at faucisdiary.com. The site holds nearly 1,900 dated entries and more than a hundred emails. Everything is searchable and linked back to the original PDF pages. Fresh excerpts keep appearing. The January 26, 2020 note still stands out – data showed early infections were not tied to the Wuhan market. “The market was not the source, it was the amplifier,” Fauci wrote. The February 1 conference call entry is just as damning. Of roughly a dozen scientists on the call, only two felt sure the virus came from nature (the familiar bat-and-wet-market story). Most of the others thought a lab leak from gain-of-function research was possible, if not likely.
Public messaging and the Proximal Origin paper later declared the opposite with total confidence. Other entries show Fauci pressing mayors and governors to close schools, taking credit for stretching the first “15 days to slow the spread,” and noting his surprise when early lockdowns failed to flatten the curves as expected. The draconian shutdowns went on anyway.
On the same pages, Fauci kept a running score of his own fame – media profiles, phone calls with celebrities, “explosive and really unimaginable” national and international attention and worries that he was outshining the president. The private ledger tracked both the lockdowns and the celebrity scorekeeping side by side.
Sen. Ron Johnson, who received the diaries with Paul and has long asked hard questions about vaccine safety, brought up the March 2021 Szarfman warning to CBER (See Related Article: https://heartlandpost.com/?p=9922). That warning concerned the VAERS system and the chance that its algorithm was hiding safety signals amid a flood of reports. Johnson also asked about a diary note on a pulmonary infarction and its timing relative to boosters. Those issues remain open.
There are several questions now facing the Senate committee and the state attorneys general: Will more comprehensive, annotated versions of the diaries and related records (emails, notes, accounts from people on those early calls) be released so the public? Was the Fifth Amendment improperly invoked after such a broad pardon? And how far can state probes go on PREP Act immunity documents, vaccine safety-signal awareness, and the decisions that kept the lockdown story alive?
Even Aaron Rodgers has entered the chat. On August 3, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers appeared on the Pat McAfee Show. Asked about his mindset heading into what may be his final season, he deadpanned that he would “plead the Fifth… like that absolute coward Tony Fauci.” He followed up: “You got a pardon and you pleaded over 100 times? What are you scared of Tony? I thought you were the science.” Rodgers, who took an onslaught of criticism for his own vaccine stance, called Fauci an “absolute criminal” and contrasted the hysterical media focus on him with the silent coverage of the hearing.
The private ledger Fauci kept on government time is now public property. Americans can read it for themselves. We are only scratching the surface of uncovering the true details of the COVID story. Americans cannot be complacent now. We have a long way to go. We deserve a reckoning.
