{"id":2635941,"date":"2026-07-27T11:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaign6-years-later-faucis-diary-confirms-the-federalist-was-right-about-everything\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:29:04","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaign6-years-later-faucis-diary-confirms-the-federalist-was-right-about-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaign6-years-later-faucis-diary-confirms-the-federalist-was-right-about-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Fauci\u2019s Diary Confirms The Federalist Was Right About Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaign6-years-later-faucis-diary-confirms-the-federalist-was-right-about-everything%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2635941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Federalist&#8217;s review of Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s diaries and past actions reveals notable misconduct and self-interest during the Covid-19 pandemic. It exposes Fauci&#8217;s egocentric behavior, his emphasis on media attention, and his collusion with press figures and Big Tech to shape public narratives. The articles highlight his deception about lockdown recommendations, masking efficacy, and the origins of Covid-19, including suppressing the lab leak theory despite private knowledge of its high likelihood. Fauci&#8217;s involvement in promoting harmful policies, profiting financially from the crisis, and resisting accountability are also detailed. The publication emphasizes that The Federalist had consistently warned about Fauci&#8217;s true motives, which align with institutional decay and corruption. The piece underscores ongoing consequences of government censorship and misinformation, affirming that The Federalist\u2019s early skepticism about Covid measures was justified and proved correct in the long run.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>More than six years after the corporate media\u2019s Covid panic, it\u2019s clear that The Federalist was right about pretty much everything, especially the fact that Dr. Anthony Fauci was corrupt and egotistical from day one.  <\/p>\n<p>The former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director\u2019s diary entries, which Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenRandPaul\/status\/2081093786185171131?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released<\/a> ahead of the career bureaucrat\u2019s expected testimony to Congress, only confirmed what many of us already knew \u2014 Fauci was more concerned with his TV time and the propaganda press\u2019 fawning over him than saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable persons in the world,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/2081424452039180385?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in March 2020, shortly after sharing that day\u2019s Covid death toll \u2014 9,800. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p>\u2014 Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/2081612793778761747?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>One entry exposed in the diary document dump shows Fauci feeding his own pride by taking credit for convincing New York and California officials to close schools and shutter restaurants and bars. Two years later, Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KanekoaTheGreat\/status\/2081611939533431069?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly claimed<\/a> during a media appearance that \u201cI didn\u2019t recommend locking anything down.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Fauci also brags in multiple entries about forming <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilyjashinsky\/status\/2081444396000538989?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cfriendships\u201d<\/a> with known propagandists such as CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper and using his proximity to the press to feed them his preferred questions. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fauci backchanneled questions to Jake Tapper for his interview with Trump\u2019s assistant secretary for health. He\u2019d recently been over to the Tapper home for dinner and wrote \u201cFriendship building.\u201d Tapper had also been texting Fauci his private thoughts on Deb Birx. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wGNzD5llJ9\">pic.twitter.com\/wGNzD5llJ9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emilyjashinsky\/status\/2081444396000538989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 26, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s diary entries might have caught some off guard, but not The Federalist. For the last six years, we, alongside a handful of others, have meticulously documented how Fauci\u2019s rampant self-obsession cost Americans\u2019 livelihoods. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Since some of you are new to the \u201cFauci deserves to be fired into the sun\u201d club, welcome! <\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re here, let\u2019s revisit some of Tony\u2019s worst moments (and the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDRLST?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FDRLST<\/a>\u2019s coverage of them) over the last six years \ud83e\uddf5: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dhzqHDMutK\">https:\/\/t.co\/dhzqHDMutK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Jordan Boyd (@jordanboydtx) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jordanboydtx\/status\/2081553810233676049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Instead of relying on epidemiologists and experts for data and recommendations on how to address COVID-19, Fauci colluded with other unelected bureaucrats to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/20\/damning-emails-prove-fauci-and-collins-colluded-to-nuke-herd-immunity-strategies\/\">nuke<\/a> herd immunity strategies. He sidelined experts, such as those who signed the <a href=\"https:\/\/gbdeclaration.org\/#read\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Barrington Declaration<\/a> (GBD), for opposing widespread lockdowns. Fauci also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/02\/emails-show-fauci-knew-masks-werent-very-effective-before-pushing-universal-masking\/\">lied about masking<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/11\/30\/fauci-flip-flops-on-in-person-learning-after-ignoring-data-on-low-covid-spread-in-schools\/\">flip-flopped on the importance of in-person schooling<\/a>, changed his tune on a Covid jab <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/29\/fauci-doubted-the-swift-development-of-a-vaccine-now-hes-trying-to-take-credit-for-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to get credit for it<\/a>, and pretended to Congress that dangerous experimental research on viruses like Covid <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/21\/nih-letter-shows-fauci-lied-to-congress-about-funding-for-gain-of-function-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">didn\u2019t exist<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In 2021, when <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/27\/wuhan-lab-leak-controversy-illuminates-why-u-s-corporate-media-amplify-communist-propaganda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media<\/a> and the government were still <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/20\/the-medias-covid-origin-coverup-campaign-has-begun\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scheming to censor<\/a> Americans for dissenting Covid opinions, including questioning whether the virus was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Fauci gladly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/02\/fauci-colluded-with-mark-zuckerberg-on-facebook-covid-19-information-hub-emails-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partnered with Big Tech overlords<\/a> to make it happen. He also worked overtime to dismiss the idea that U.S.-funded <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/28\/sen-ron-johnson-demands-answers-from-fauci-about-covid-origin-flip-flop\/\">gain-of-function research<\/a> in China could be linked to the virus\u2019 creation and spread. <\/p>\n<p>Fauci\u2019s diary suggests he knew <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenRandPaul\/status\/2081093794028519738?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as early as January 2020<\/a> that the Wuhan wet market \u201cwas not the source [of Covid], it was the amplifier.\u201d One month later, Fauci\u2019s call with high level health officials and scientists similarly <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenRandPaul\/status\/2081093801167257671?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">yielded little support <\/a>for the idea that the global Covid outbreak occurred naturally. Even Fauci\u2019s lackeys called the lab leak theory <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/07\/27\/fauci-toadies-privately-called-lab-leak-theory-highly-likely-while-publicly-shutting-it-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201chighly likely\u201d<\/a> in private while penning \u201cProximal Origin\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41591-020-0820-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paper<\/a> that bureaucrats like Fauci and the media used to publicly dismiss the idea. <\/p>\n<p>Fauci also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/25\/emails-show-fauci-knew-from-a-2020-federalist-article-that-masking-was-ineffective-but-demanded-it-anyway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">knew from a 2020 Federalist article<\/a> forwarded to him by his then-Chief of Staff Greg Folkers that masking was ineffective. He proceeded to publish a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2772459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cviewpoint\u201d paper<\/a> that claimed the nation\u2019s \u201creturn to normalcy\u201d was contingent upon the \u201cwidespread acceptance and adoption of mask wearing and other inexpensive and effective interventions as part of the COVID-19 prevention toolbox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By July 2021, Fauci was completely sold on downplaying the WIV\u2019s role in the Covid outbreak and drumming up the need for lockdowns and masking. He claimed the FBI, which was \u201cconvinced that the origin of Covid-19 is from a laboratory leak,\u201d had \u201cno idea what they\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One month earlier, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/article\/anthony-fauci-no-scientific-evidence-the-coronavirus-was-made-in-a-chinese-lab-cvd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protesting<\/a> for a year to media that the lab leak theory was a \u201ccircular argument,\u201d Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/16\/fauci-falsely-claims-hes-always-been-open-to-probability-of-wuhan-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> the \u201cCBS This Morning\u201d\u00a0audience that he\u2019s \u201calways\u201d been open to probability of a lab leak. He also suggested against all evidence that \u201cit\u2019s\u00a0a\u00a0bit\u00a0of\u00a0a\u00a0distortion\u00a0to\u00a0say\u00a0that\u00a0we\u00a0deliberately\u00a0suppressed\u201d theories that the virus was manmade or escaped from the WIV.<\/p>\n<p>Fauci continued this schtick under oath. During a seven-hour deposition in December 2022, Fauci failed to recall pertinent information about his role in the federal government\u2019s Covid weaponization <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/12\/06\/fauci-knows-everything-but-remembers-nothing-in-his-big-tech-collusion-deposition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at least\u00a0174 times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy was nothing short of personally enriching for Fauci. While regular Americans struggled to make ends meet and keep their small businesses afloat amid lockdowns, the bureaucrat made <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/17\/while-shuttering-your-family-business-fauci-made-1-7-million-on-his-lies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1.7 million<\/a>. By the end of 2021, Fauci was the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/25\/dr-anthony-fauci-is-the-highest-paid-federal-employee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faucis-book-scrubbed-from-internet-publisher-claims-it-was-prematurely-posted-for-pre-sale\/\" title=\"Fauci...s Book Scrubbed From Internet, Publisher Claims It Was \u2018Prematurely Posted For Pre-Sale...\">highest paid federal employee<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the savior imagery Fauci embraced, evidence overwhelmingly suggests he cared more about his TV appearances than saving lives. He <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/28\/fauci-in-2012-gain-of-function-research-into-bat-viruses-is-worth-the-risk-of-a-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">always believed a global pandemic<\/a> was okay as long as it meant his taxpayer-funded gain of function pet projects could continue. <\/p>\n<p>The Federalist knew this and repeatedly raised questions about Fauci\u2019s motivations and behavior. It didn\u2019t take long for us to be one of the few outlets willing to admit that Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fauci-is-an-unhinged-unelected-bureaucrat-who-deserves-to-be-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deserved to be fired<\/a>, if not jailed. <\/p>\n<p>When President Joe Biden tried to dismiss Fauci\u2019s eligibility for accountability with a last-minute preemptive pardon that granted him <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1881370396970336551\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than a decade of immunity<\/a> from federal prosecution, The Federalist pointed out that neither states nor Congress were compelled to let Fauci <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/20\/if-fauci-cant-be-jailed-for-his-covid-cover-up-congress-should-make-him-explain-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">off the hook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, we are still paying the price for our courage during the Covid years. The Federalist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/19\/will-the-costs-of-a-great-depression-outweigh-the-risks-of-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initial pushback<\/a> against the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/03\/25\/the-wuhan-virus-is-serious-but-shutting-down-isnt-the-long-term-answer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201ctwo weeks to stop the spread\u201d<\/a> lie that gripped the government and media in March 2020 resulted in tremendous blowback and even a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/06\/22\/a-recap-of-nbcs-failed-attempt-to-deplatform-the-federalist-on-google\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deplatforming attempt<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/07\/were-still-waiting-for-facebook-to-atone-for-the-11-times-we-know-of-it-censored-the-federalist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censorship algorithms installed<\/a> during the Covid panic have profoundly affected The Federalist\u2019s social media reach. We even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasattorneygeneral.gov\/news\/releases\/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-major-win-alongside-daily-wire-and-federalist-defeating-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> the<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/01\/the-federalist-scored-a-huge-win-for-free-speech-and-exposed-more-of-the-censorship-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> State Department and other government officials<\/a> for using its Global Engagement Center to suppress our accurate Covid-19 reporting, among other issues. <\/p>\n<p>History <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/12\/the-contrarians-were-right-about-covid-hysteria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">proves The Federalist was right<\/a> about Covid, about lockdowns, about the jab, and certainly about Fauci. Very early into the years-long Covid scandal, we identified <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/27\/how-anthony-fauci-made-himself-the-face-of-americas-institutional-decay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fauci as the face of America\u2019s institutional decay<\/a>. The publication of Fauci\u2019s diary only confirms that. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-cruelty-is-the-point-folks\/\" title=\"The Cruelty Is the Point, Folks\">award-winning staff writer<\/a> at The Federalist and producer of \u201cThe Federalist Radio Hour.\u201d Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. 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