{"id":25123,"date":"2026-08-02T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25123"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:57:56","slug":"anthony-fauci-diaries-show-obamas-private-thoughts-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=25123","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Fauci Diaries Show Obama&#8217;s Private Thoughts On Trump"},"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<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5747446\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5747446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5747446\" src=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fauci.jpeg\" alt=\"Anthony Fauci\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fauci.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fauci-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fauci-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fauci-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5747446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Sipa via AP Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Anthony Fauci\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/opinion\/5-underreported-media-stories-from-the-fauci-diaries\/\">Covid diary\u00a0<\/a> has earned the doctor ridicule from Republicans \u2014 but it also apparently exposed former President <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/fauci-diary-obama-trump-idiot-b3025378.html\">expletive-laden private thoughts<\/a> about the Trump family.<\/p>\n<p>The diary, publicly released Sen. <strong>Rand Paul<\/strong> (R-KY), was discovered by Health and Human Services Secretary <strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/strong> on government servers. He turned the more than 1,000 pages over to Senate Republicans who have called for Fauci\u2019s prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>A November 2021 entry published in <em>The Independent<\/em> recounted how Fauci said he received a supportive phone call from Obama in the midst of right-wing attacks of his handling of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told President Obama about the crazy things that the far-right Republicans were doing including the fact that <strong>Donald Trump, Jr.<\/strong> had on his website the sale of sweatshirts and T-shirts to collect money for his campaign and on the T-shirts and sweatshirts it said \u2018Fauci kills puppies,&#8221;\u201d Fauci wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObama said That Donald Trump junior is \u2018A f****** moron\u2019. He apologized for using crude language but then went on to say that Donald Trump was a hopeless idiot who was a pathologic liar,\u201d Fauci wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The puppy reference stemmed from a scientific study that reported Fauci\u2019s National Institutes of Health funded experiments in which puppies were exposed to sand flies.<\/p>\n<p>Obama was frustrated by Republicans who wouldn\u2019t publicly support the doctor against allegations of mismanagement, Fauci wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Obama] was very upset that none of the moderate Republicans were actually speaking out on my behalf and were distancing themselves from all of this terrible slanderous behavior against me,\u201d Fauci wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci added, \u201cIt was a great conversation that lasted for 25 minutes and he said that if he hears anything about movement in this direction, he will get back to me. It indeed was an incredibly memorable phone call.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked for comment, White House spokesperson <strong>Davis Ingle<\/strong> told <em>The Independent<\/em>, \u201cBarack Hussein Obama will go down as one of the most dishonest, divisive, and destructive Presidents in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Independent<\/em> said it reached out to the Office of Barack and <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong> for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, in what some Democrats said was redolent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/democratic-senator-calls-fauci-hearing-one-of-the-darkest-days-in-our-senates-history\/\">McCarthy-era \u201cRed Scare\u201d hearings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fauci cited his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 100 times throughout the hearing.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Sipa via AP Images) Anthony Fauci\u2019s Covid diary\u00a0 has earned the doctor ridicule from Republicans \u2014 but it also apparently exposed former President Barack Obama\u2018s expletive-laden private thoughts about the Trump family. The diary, publicly released Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), was discovered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. 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