Sen. Rand Paul released new pages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private diary on Wednesday, and the writings show the longtime health official repeatedly disparaged Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign and later called for him to be impeached.
Just the News reported that Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, made public the additional diary material showing Fauci’s private commentary on the New York mogul who would become president.
The entries stretch from the 2016 race into early 2019. They capture a federal health official tracking Trump’s political fortunes, fretting over agency funding, and judging the man he would later advise during a national crisis.
For millions of Americans who were told Fauci stood above politics, the pages land as a record of something else: a senior public-health figure writing like a partisan observer while still drawing a government paycheck.
One of the sharpest entries memorializes the period of Jan. 1-7, 2019, in the middle of a government shutdown. Fauci did not say much.
In the diary, he wrote of Trump:
“He is acting more and more bizarre. Should be impeached, but Dems are rightfully concerned that this will galvanize his base,”
That is not a clinical note. It is a political judgment from a doctor who held enormous sway over federal health policy and public messaging.
The same release shows Fauci had already been sizing up Trump years earlier. During the 2016 campaign, the diary indicates he began contemplating what a Trump presidency would mean for his agency’s funding. He also logged running commentary on Trump’s public performances and controversies.
One entry zeroed in on a September debate.
Fauci wrote:
“Trump made a fool of himself in the debate on Monday 26 Sept,”
Later, after a video recording of Trump was published in October in which he told a colleague about his efforts to seduce a woman, the diary turned to that tape as well.
Fauci recorded:
“Trump caught in [sic] Tape denigrating women,”
He followed with another line that left little doubt about his view of Trump’s supporters:
“Anyone else would be disqualified by this; however, his people still support him.”
Taken together, the entries show more than casual irritation. They show a senior health official privately rooting against a candidate, then a president, and measuring political risk the way a campaign operative might.
That matters because Fauci was not a columnist. He was a government scientist whose public posture rested on claims of expertise and neutrality. Private scorn of this kind undercuts that posture, especially for readers who watched the same official later become the face of federal COVID guidance.
The newest pages sit inside a much larger document release. AP News reported that Paul has released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci’s long-running diary, material HHS extracted from government computers under RFK Jr. and provided to the committee.
Paul has argued that the private record tells a different story than Fauci’s public comments. One earlier diary note from Jan. 26, 2020, stated that “the market was not the source, it was the amplifier,” language Paul has used to challenge Fauci’s public framing of COVID origins.
The pattern is consistent: private writing in one direction, public messaging in another. Conservatives who spent years demanding transparency see the diary as further evidence that official certainty was often more performance than candor, a theme also raised when Fauci’s own diary put a lower COVID death-rate estimate on paper than he sold to the public.
Paul has not treated the releases as a dry records exercise. He has used them to keep pressure on the former public-health chief and to force a fuller accounting of what Fauci knew, when he knew it, and how he talked about it off-camera.
The contrast grew sharper in a Republican-led Senate hearing where Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer more than 100 questions about his COVID-19 handling.
A man willing to fill diary pages with political judgments about Trump later refused to answer lawmakers under oath. That sequence is hard to ignore. It is the same accountability fight that intensified when Rand Paul moved toward contempt charges after Fauci pleaded the Fifth more than 100 times.
Paul’s committee work has kept returning to the same core problem: public officials who demand trust while withholding straight answers. A Senate panel later voted to advance contempt after the Fifth Amendment marathon, another marker in a long effort to pin down the federal COVID record rather than accept polished talking points.
Private diary entries calling Trump “bizarre” and fit for impeachment do not answer scientific questions by themselves. They do answer a character question. They show how freely Fauci wrote about politics when he thought the audience was only himself.
Paul has also needled Fauci in public. The Washington Examiner reported that the senator mocked the diary habit on social media, sharing an edited image and writing, “What Anthony Fauci looked like every night when he wrote about how great he is in his diary.”
The joke lands because the documents keep reinforcing a double standard. Fauci could be expansive on the page about Trump’s flaws and Democratic strategy. He could be far less expansive when Congress asked direct questions about pandemic decisions, origins judgments, and the gap between private notes and public claims.
That gap is not new to readers who have followed related disclosures, including reporting on how Fauci privately flagged miscarriage risk around a second COVID shot while publicly urging pregnant women to get vaccinated. Different subject, same structure: caution or candor in private, a cleaner line in public.
The newest Trump-focused pages fit the same file. They show political hostility recorded in real time. They show an official watching funding stakes and partisan incentives. And they show why Paul’s committee has treated the diary as more than memorabilia.
Americans were told, again and again, that Fauci represented science itself. The diary releases chip away at that brand. A scientist who logs impeachment talk, debate mockery, and contempt for a president’s voters is not a neutral instrument. He is a powerful bureaucrat with preferences, enemies, and institutional interests.
Paul’s release does not claim the diary revises every COVID decision by itself. It does something simpler and harder to spin. It puts Fauci’s own words on the table. It shows what he chose to record when no camera was rolling.
It also lands amid a broader cleanup effort around pandemic-era secrecy. Separate cases have already shown how records fights and hidden communications became part of the story, including when Fauci’s former senior adviser pleaded guilty to conspiring to hide COVID-19 records. The public is no longer starting from zero. The diary pages are another primary-source dump into a record officials once controlled tightly.
For lawful voters who lived under shifting rules, closed schools, and high-handed guidance, the issue is not manners in a journal. The issue is trust. If a top health official privately cast Trump as unfit and politically dangerous while managing the machinery of public health, taxpayers have every right to re-examine the authority that official later claimed.
Paul keeps forcing that re-examination into daylight. The committee chair is not asking the country to take his word for Fauci’s mindset. He is publishing the pages and letting the sentences speak.
Government power depends on credibility. Diary entries that sneer at a president and float impeachment while fretting over agency money are not a side note. They are a warning label on the cult of the unelected expert.
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