READ THE DIARIES: Documents unveil Fauci's thoughts on the lab-leak debate, mask doubts and testing failures

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He told the House Oversight Committee in January 2024, however, "I did not close the schools." Fauci has long denied any wrongdoing and instead has argued that he's been made a political target by people on the right who are critical of how governments handled COVID-19.

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Fox News - Politics READ THE DIARIES: Documents unveil Fauci's thoughts on the lab-leak debate, mask doubts and testing failures https://www.foxnews.com/politics/read-diaries-documents-unveil-faucis-thoughts-lab-leak-debate-mask-doubts-testing-failures 2026-07-28T16:52:57.000Z Sen. "Later in the pandemic, he gloried in the positive attention he was receiving from legacy media and demonized those who questioned his official narrative — like me," Paul said — alluding to heated exchanges during congressional hearings when Paul grilled Fauci over his pandemic response.

Fauci wasn't truthful with the American people about the origins of COVID and advised schools to be closed," Comer told Fox News Digital. John Joyce, R-Pa., told Fox News Digital that Fauci "must be held accountable" by the House as well as the Senate.

Fauci's diary entries validates what many Americans suspected all along: he was not honest about the origins of COVID-19," Joyce said.

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Anthony Fauci, the controversial former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and chief government spokesperson during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anthony Fauci testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. APP USERS: CLICK HERE Born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, worked in both the New York and Washington bureaus for Fox News since 2013. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2026. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images) "Dr.

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The top infectious disease expert in the U.S. says the Food and Drug Administration’s decision Monday should encourage people who cited lack of approval as a reason for not getting vaccinated. "Before most Americans knew there was an origins debate, the government’s top infectious-disease official was already confronting the lab scenario," Paul said. "His fixation on preserving his own image and maintaining a position of power eroded public trust, undermined the integrity of our public health institutions, and failed the American people." Sen.

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Fauci is set to testify before a GOP-led Senate panel on Wednesday, days after hundreds of pages of his COVID-19 pandemic-era diary entries were made public.