Rand Paul releases new batch of Fauci diary entries: 'Early-onset Trump derangement syndrome'

By Jon Brown, Christian Post Reporter Wednesday, October 07, 2026

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., released another batch of entries from Dr. Anthony Fauci's personal diary Wednesday dating from between 2015 and 2019, some of which expressed criticism for President Donald Trump.

Paul, who chairs the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, issued an X thread titled "TONY'S DIARY: The Missing Years, 2015–2019," which highlighted the private anti-Trump political reflections of the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director. The excerpted entries were also published on Paul's Senate website.

1/ Today I'm releasing additional years of Dr. Fauci's diary. Here it is… TONY'S DIARY: The Missing Years, 2015–2019 ???? https://t.co/vqgKh3rxmu

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) October 7, 2026

In what Paul jokingly described as a case of "Early-onset Trump Derangement Syndrome," Fauci wrote a diary entry on Jan. 21, 2017, a day after Trump was first sworn into office, that noted his wife attended the Women's March in Washington, D.C., and that his daughters attended them in Boston and San Francisco.

Complaining that Trump bragged about the size of the inauguration crowd that year and gave a speech at the CIA "blasting the press and overtly lying," Fauci claimed the new president "is acting amaxingly [sic] unpresidential!"

By March 2017, Fauci dismissed the White House staff as "a scary bunch" and maintained that "Trump and his people are truly unscrupulous."

In entries during the government shutdown in January 2019, Fauci wrote that Trump was "acting more and more bizarre" and "should be impeached," adding that Democrats were wary it would galvanize his base. Earlier entries from 2016 called Trump's debate performance foolish and treat the Access Hollywood tape as disqualifying, while noting Trump's supporters still backed him.

Other entries showed that Fauci had private doubts about an Ebola vaccine trial in 2015 despite offering public praise for it. When the World Health Organization (WHO) called the trial a 100% effective "breakthrough," Fauci privately described it as a "terribly flawed study design" despite telling The New York Times the results were "very encouraging" and "impressive."

"We cannot criticize the study since that is exactly what the press is looking for, and then they will create a tension between HHS and WHO. HHS is too stupid to realize that," Fauci wrote at the time.

Fauci wrote in 2016 that he lost files in a ransomware attack that wiped an encrypted folder of "confidential files that I made right after the anthrax attacks since I did not want them accessible to anyone."

Fauci also expressed skepticism over classified warnings about Chinese efforts to steal technologies for Ebola vaccines and therapies, writing in 2017: "I cannot see why this is so secret. This stuff is in the literature and in clinicaltrials.gov."

Also in 2017, Fauci recorded a "Big Chinese visitor day" during which he hosted China CDC Director General George Gao at NIH and met with China's vice premier, health minister and the head of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences at CSIS.

Weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, Fauci bragged to himself in December 2019 that he had been invited by the National Security Council into the SCIF for a meeting about Chinese genetics capabilities in Africa, writing that it was because of his "knowledge and standing and because I am Tony Fauci."

Paul's office said in a press release that the newly publicized entries reveal "five more years of Dr. Fauci’s diary show him repeatedly disparaging the president he served, calling for his impeachment in writing, and publicly praising a 2015 Ebola vaccine trial he privately called 'terribly flawed.'"

"The entries also reveal that a ransomware attack wiped out confidential files he started keeping after the anthrax attacks, that he hosted China’s top public health officials at NIH, and that he expressed skepticism over classified warnings about Chinese efforts to steal technology, and foreign bioterror programs," the release continued.

The Republican-led Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted 8-5 along party lines in August to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times during his tense, three-hour testimony on July 29. Paul bypassed the full Senate vote and sent the contempt referral directly to the U.S. Department of Justice for review.