{"id":77687,"date":"2026-08-23T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=77687"},"modified":"2026-08-23T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T14:04:52","slug":"anthony-faucis-own-diary-proves-what-a-despicable-villain-he-truly-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=77687","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Anthony Fauci\u2019s own diary proves what a despicable villain he truly is<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-23-at-10.04.34-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"597\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-77688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-23-at-10.04.34-AM.png 597w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-23-at-10.04.34-AM-300x199.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Post Editorial Board<\/p>\n<p>As COVID cases and deaths began to soar in the spring of 2020, America desperately needed a trustworthy public-health leader. Instead, we got Dr. Anthony Fauci \u2014 and now his diary entries from that time are showing just how incredibly unworthy of the nation\u2019s trust he truly was.<\/p>\n<p>Time and again, his private notes contradict what he was telling the world at the very same time, and the stories he\u2019s spun up since to protect his unearned reputation.<button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"40110847\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40110847\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1023px) 100vw, 734px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=320 320w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=480 480w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=800 800w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/2024-washington-dc-subcommittee-holding-135765527.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" alt=\"Dr. Anthony Fauci testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" data-modal-image=\"40110847\" \/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The diary entries that Fauci made in that year about the so-called \u201cBeaglegate\u201d scandal show he used his allies in the media and politics to respond to attacks over the NIAID-funded study \u2014 though his lawyer has previously denied that he improperly discussed any \u201cgovernment business.\u201d<span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For starters, he insisted time and again that the \u201clab leak hypothesis\u201d was a wacky conspiracy theory, that the virus had jumped naturally from animals to humans, presumably at the \u201cwet market\u201d in Wuhan, China.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the diaries reveal that he knew early on that it had not come from the wet market, and was confronted with scientists he\u2019d selected\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/27\/us-news\/dr-anthony-fauci-ruled-out-wuhan-market-origin-for-covid-19-in-private-diary-entries\/\">who argued with strong evidence<\/a>\u00a0that \u201clab leak\u201d was the truth \u2014 and that the bug was likely bio-engineered in the Wuhan Institute Virology.<\/p>\n<p>We also now know that he himself referred to research at WIV that he had funded with federal cash as \u201cGOF,\u201d meaning \u201cgain of function,\u201d altering viruses to make them more deadly or contagious to humans \u2014 though he later testified time and time again under questioning by Sen. Rand Paul that he\u2019d\u00a0<em>never\u00a0<\/em>funded such work.<\/p>\n<p>Since China\u2019s rulers destroyed all records long ago to cover up their guilt in the death of millions, we\u2019ll never know for sure if Fauci\u2019s funding played a role \u2014 but his behavior clearly shows he feared it did, and used all power at his disposal to stop the ugly truth from coming out.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, the way he pushed hard for media and social-media companies to suppress or ban contrarian voices about COVID\u2019s origins, and even worked with Beijing to ensure that international investigations would never get close to being able to examine the evidence.<\/p>\n<p>He engaged in the same information-control to stomp on experts who questioned the wisdom of locking everything down to fight COVID, while bragging to his diary about how he got the likes of then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Gavin Newsom to lock down New York City and California.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, he turned around and claimed he\u2019d <em>never<\/em>\u00a0pushed for mass lockdowns: The diaries again prove him a liar.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they also expose his boundless vanity: \u201cIf you don\u2019t have a crush on this man,\u201d reads the caption to a gigantic picture of himself that Fauci\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/26\/us-news\/dr-faucis-bizarre-fame-fixation-as-covid-deaths-mounted-revealed-in-newly-released-diaries\/\">pasted lovingly into his scrapbook<\/a>, \u201cdo you even care about public health?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was an image he worked tirelessly to burnish, wining and dining privately with CNN\u2019s Jack Tapper and other elite media stars who then breathlessly sold him as\u00a0<em>the\u00a0<\/em>expert.<\/p>\n<p>His ego became obscenely obvious by the time he declared that he\u00a0<em>was\u00a0<\/em>\u201cthe science,\u201d but now we see him fretting about \u201cattacks upon me by far-right elements\u201d and the \u201cinsidious campaign to discredit me\u201d as other experts insisted mass lockdowns made neither scientific nor economic sense.<\/p>\n<p>And his\u00a0<em>personalization<\/em>\u00a0of scientific debate fed into the lunatic\u00a0<em>politicization<\/em>\u00a0of COVID policy, such that America kept its schools closed longer and tighter than the Europeans, and insisted on masking\u00a0<em>toddlers\u00a0<\/em>who were never at risk.<\/p>\n<p>That politics led to the lunatic Biden presidential pardon that likely immunizes Fauci from criminal charges for his perjury, abuses of government power and so on.<\/p>\n<p>But it shouldn\u2019t leave him out of reach of\u00a0<em>civil\u00a0<\/em>liability, nor of the feds clawing back at least some of the private fortune he managed to amass in a lifetime of \u201cpublic service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Above all, though, Dr. Anthony Fauci needs to go down in history as the exact\u00a0<em>opposite\u00a0<\/em>of what any free country should elevate to any position of trust: He is a villain, not a hero.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/28\/opinion\/anthony-faucis-own-diary-proves-what-a-despicable-villain-he-truly-is\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/28\/opinion\/anthony-faucis-own-diary-proves-what-a-despicable-villain-he-truly-is\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77689,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77687\/revisions\/77689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}