Rand Paul

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary shows that there was a massive level of dishonesty when he was in charge of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“One of the biggest items that we found in there was that in January of 2020 he already was acknowledging that the virus didn’t originate in the marketplace,” Paul said, according to The Hill newspaper. “For years he’s been telling you — if you interviewed him last week, he’s probably still telling you — the reason we think it came from nature is because they had these exotic animals and that’s where SARS came from previously.”

Fauci will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Wednesday following the release of his diary entries.

Paul has been one of the main voices speaking out about how COVID-19 was handled and has been adamant about trying to get the Trump administration to prosecute Fauci over his past congressional testimony.

In 2024, Paul alleged that Fauci conspired with an organization that was researching viruses to hide its loss of funding from the government.

“The earliest people who got COVID were not associated with the marketplace,” Paul said. “The Chinese CDC was saying this in January of 2020. He knew it, he told dear diary, but to the public, he commissioned this paper called ‘Proximal Origins,’ and in it they go on and on saying it’s implausible that it came from the lab and we’re really convinced it came from these wild animals in the marketplace, That level of dishonesty is really astounding.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said during an interview with Fox News that Fauci was more interested in becoming famous than focusing on public health.

“His focus was on self-promotion clearlyHis focus was on promoting himself, getting himself on TV, and not doing public health," Kennedy said.