Anthony Fauci, the former Chief Medical Adviser to the White House, is set to appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee this week. As the hearing approaches, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has released thousands of pages from Fauci’s diary entries spanning 2020 to 2022.
These diary entries expose how Fauci became increasingly aware of the media’s interest in him during the pandemic. On March 22, 2020, Fauci wrote about the attention from the press, stating, “Press is going wild with me. Front page in Washington Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic. I am trying in several articles and on TV to clarify that the POTUS is talking about hope for therapies although there are no good data, while I must stick to the science and so fundamentally we are approaching this from different, but not conflicting standpoints.”
By May 21, 2020, the diary entries reveal Fauci’s acknowledgment of his growing public prominence. He described the attention as “flattering.” In his entry, he noted, “Big front page article about me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It 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 person in the world.”
Despite his retirement from federal service, Fauci has voiced concerns about the negative impact of the attention on his family. When testifying before the House in 2024, he shared emotional accounts of threats received by his family. Fauci mentioned, “There have been everything from harassments by emails, texts, letters of myself, my wife, my three daughters. There have been credible death threats, leading to the arrests of two individuals — and ‘credible death threats’ means someone who clearly was on their way to kill me, and it’s required my having Protective Services essentially all the time.”
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