After years of digging, Paul may have finally found what he’s been looking for. His latest release of pandemic-related documents included portions of Fauci’s COVID diary from the earliest days of the crisis. Paul claims, “What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.”
1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary.
What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories.
Today I’m releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022.

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— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
In a nine-part thread on X, Paul highlighted the most relevant entries. The first, dated January 26, 2020, exposed a serious disconnect between what the director actually believed — that the virus did not originate from the wet market — and what he was leading the public to believe.
Paul wrote: “Fauci writes in his diary: ‘Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.’ That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes.”
[It’s worth noting that Fauci still appears to believe the virus had “jumped from animals to humans.” He simply didn’t know how.]
Here is the relevant portion of Fauci’s January 26, 2020, entry: [Emphasis added.]
It now appears using epi data and genomic data that the first infection was in early December and was not connected to the market. The infections spread among people weeks before the Chinese reported that they were dealing with a new infection and that gave the virus time to establish itself in multigenerational (sustained) spread Remember, early on the Chinese were saying that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market. Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.
2/9 Jan. 26, 2020. Fauci writes in his diary: “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier.”
That is January of 2020. The wet market was already off the table in his own private notes. pic.twitter.com/mz0OzcPHgg
— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026
Less than a week later, on a now-infamous call with 12 prominent virologists, only two had “concluded it was natural.”
Fauci wrote: “The rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible.”
In other words, 10 of the 12 virologists, or 83.33%, believed the virus may have been genetically engineered.
[Note: According to the National Institutes of Health, deliberate insertion “refers to the intentional, man-made addition of specific genetic material, mutations, or molecular features into a viral genome using laboratory biotechnology.” It is a direct form of genetic engineering.]
3/9 Feb. 1, 2020. The call that produced Proximal Origin. Twelve scientists.
Only 2 concluded it was natural. Per Fauci’s own notes, “the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible.”
This was never a 50/50 room.