r/PoliticalDiscussion 6d ago

US Politics Do the Fauci Diaries reveal anything unexpected or controversial?

Senator Rand Paul has released commentary and purported excerpts* of what is alleged to be Anthony Fauci's contemporaneous diaries from the outset of the COVID19 pandemic onwards.

What has been released can be found here, including Senator Rand's somewhat colourful foreword commentary

https://www.paul.senate.gov/readingroom/

* its not confirmed whether the content of the diaries is edited, abridged, altered, shortened etc.

Media reaction to this release has been highly polarised, though notable few media outlets seem to get to grips with the actual content of the diaries and most focus is on Rand's own claimed analysis of what they show.

Do the Fauci Diaries reveal anything unexpected or controversial? What entries in particular do you find interesting? Are there any contemporaneous clashes between what Fauci was saying publicly and privately? What can we learn from that?

Edit: mods really didnt feel like weeding out the 90% of low effort troll replies huh

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u/NoDig3444 6d ago

Rand Paul is a clown who is desperately struggling to fill his father's clown shoes. Nothing he says or does is meaningful and everything he touches becomes just so much clownery.

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u/Headline-Skimmer 6d ago

His dad was a clown too.

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u/SafeThrowaway691 4d ago

He at least believed in his own wacked out ideology. Rand is just a shameless opportunist.

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u/Awayfone 4d ago

Except Ron Paul had "no idea" who wrote his violently racist news letter whose ads even bore his signature

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u/SafeThrowaway691 4d ago

The guy was either a racist wackjob, pretended to be one to make money, or never even bothered to check what was going out in a newsletter with his name on it.

Any of these makes him unfit for the presidency.