{"id":20254,"date":"2026-07-28T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20254"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T16:16:23","slug":"america-trusted-faucis-mask-guidance-his-diary-shows-he-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=20254","title":{"rendered":"America trusted Fauci\u2019s mask guidance \u2014 his diary shows he didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2025\/01\/20\/Biden_Pardons_14349_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci doubted masks worked long before he let Americans know it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/27\/anthony-fauci-focused-fame-covid-pandemic-spread\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his own diary shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, released the 1,141-page document days before Dr. Fauci is slated to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a final showdown. Mr. Paul, the panel\u2019s chairman, said in a fundraising email Monday that he had to subpoena Dr. Fauci to force him to testify.<\/p>\n<p>The diary, which spans Dr. Fauci\u2019s private thinking from early 2020 through the Biden administration, includes a March 31 entry acknowledging, \u201cWe probably were too strong in saying masks do not work.\u201d He wrote that just before the government officially came out in favor of masking \u2014 after Dr. Fauci himself had told the public in early March 2020 that \u201cpeople should not be walking around with masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Paul\u2019s office said the diary\u2019s near-daily writings \u201ccompletely undermine\u201d what Dr. Fauci said publicly at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The senator said he plans to ask Dr. Fauci about NIH funding for gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China; his role in what Mr. Paul calls a cover-up of COVID-19\u2019s origins; and why he sought a preemptive pardon from Mr. Biden if he \u201cdid nothing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The diary also reveals Dr. Fauci\u2019s private insults toward Mr. Paul, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others, along with his fixation on favorable media coverage during the pandemic\u2019s peak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/27\/anthony-fauci-focused-fame-covid-pandemic-spread\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fauci fixated on fame as COVID deaths mounted, diary reveals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #3e3e3e;\"><em><br \/>\n                          This article was constructed with the assistance of artificial intelligence and published by a member of The Washington Times&#8217; AI News Desk team. The contents of this report are based solely on The Washington Times&#8217; original reporting, wire services, and\/or other sources cited within the report. For more information, please read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/ai-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">AI policy<\/a> or contact Steve Fink, Director of Artificial Intelligence, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/28\/fauci-believe-masks-worked-diary-says-no\/mailto:sfink@washingtontimes.com\">sfink@washingtontimes.com<\/a><br \/>\n                      <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px; color: #3e3e3e;\"><em><br \/>\n                          The Washington Times AI Ethics Newsroom Committee can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2026\/jul\/28\/fauci-believe-masks-worked-diary-says-no\/mailto:aispotlight@washingtontimes.com\">aispotlight@washingtontimes.com<\/a>.<br \/>\n                      <\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Anthony Fauci doubted masks worked long before he let Americans know it, his own diary shows. Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, released the 1,141-page document days before Dr. Fauci is slated to testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in a final showdown. Mr. Paul, the panel\u2019s chairman, said in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2025\/01\/20\/Biden_Pardons_14349_c0-235-5647-3529_s1200x700.jpg?089c8950089cb32db26edab78f6f0a6b32ed5635","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}