On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at 8:30 a.m. in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to appear under subpoena before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
After months of negotiations, Fauci agreed to testify voluntarily, then backed out. Paul responded with his first subpoena as chairman. The hearing will dig into gain-of-function research funding (which Fauci denied to Congress while critics say NIH-linked work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology fit the bill), alleged record destruction, COVID origins, and more. Paul has framed it bluntly: “Anthony Fauci will answer to the American people.”
Just days before the hearing, Paul released Fauci’s personal diary entries spanning December 2019 through December 2022. The notes, obtained through the committee’s investigation, show a striking private-versus-public split and a heavy focus on his own personal celebrity amid the rising death toll.
This is a mind blowing file dump. Appears to be hundreds of pages of correspondence within NIH and HHS about getting Fauci many paid awards. The focus here is amazing. What a scam! https://t.co/Gf23cVcVle pic.twitter.com/72GD7oi1KD
— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) July 25, 2026
In one May 2020 entry, after logging tens of thousands of U.S. and global deaths, Fauci wrote that his “national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson [sic] in the world.” He tracked flattering front-page stories, noted Secret Service waving him through, and recorded celebrity contacts—including a call with Barbra Streisand about the mRNA vaccine and Amazon’s Alexa. Other entries detail early private doubts about a pure natural origin (the wet market as “amplifier,” not source; scientists on a key call leaning toward possible deliberate insertion) while the public messaging pushed hard the other way.
Paul’s releases highlight the contrast: private notes acknowledging lab-related concerns and coordinating with authors of the influential “Proximal Origin” paper, versus the public insistence that a lab leak was implausible and that NIH never funded gain-of-function at Wuhan. Critics see classic narrative management; supporters see a scientist under pressure processing real-time events. Either way, the diaries make for explosive hearing material.
Then there’s the Biden pardon. In one of his final acts in January 2025, President Biden issued Fauci a full and unconditional preemptive pardon covering any federal offenses related to his service as NIAID director, White House COVID roles, or chief medical advisor from January 1, 2014, through the pardon date. Biden framed it as protection from politically motivated probes; Fauci accepted while denying wrongdoing.
How does that affect potential past lying to Congress? It shields against federal prosecution for covered past acts (Paul and others have long alleged perjury on gain-of-function denials). It also largely eliminates Fauci’s ability to invoke the Fifth Amendment on those matters—he can’t claim self-incrimination risk for already-pardoned conduct—so he faces tougher questioning. But a pardon does not cover new false statements under oath in this 2026 hearing. Fresh perjury would be a separate crime outside the pardon’s scope. Paul has also argued the pardon itself is vulnerable (too broad, vague, possibly autopen issues) and should be tested in court.
The stage is set: a long-running adversarial relationship (Paul has confronted Fauci for years), newly public diary contradictions, documented funding questions, record-deletion allegations, and a pardon that both protects and constrains. Whether it produces admissions, carefully lawyered non-answers, or more drama remains to be seen live.
We hope the truth about the manipulation of the public narrative—now illuminated by those private diaries—finally comes fully into the open, and that accountability follows where the facts warrant it. Grab your popcorn. This one’s been years in the making.