Rand Paul releases new Fauci diary pages showing doctor disparaged Trump, called for his impeachment

Senate committee reveals private entries dating back to 2016 campaign showing public health chief's critiques of Trump.

Published: October 7, 2026 1:47pm

Senator Rand Paul, Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, released on Wednesday new pages from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s so-called diary showing that the health official repeatedly disparaged Donald Trump during the 2016 election and eventually called for him to be impeached. 

“He is acting more and more bizarre. Should be impeached, but Dems are rightfully concerned that this will galvanize his base,” Fauci wrote in a diary entry memorializing Jan. 1-7, 2019, in the midst of a government shutdown. 

But, the records show Dr. Fauci’s dim view of the president developed long before the president took office. The entries show that Fauci began contemplating what a Trump presidency would mean to his agency’s funding during the 2016 campaign and also commented on his debate performance. 

“Trump made a fool of himself in the debate on Monday 26 Sept,” Fauci wrote. 

After a video recording of Trump was published in October in which the New York mogul told a colleague about his efforts to seduce a woman, Fauci was appalled and argued it should be disqualifying for him to be president. 

“Trump caught in [sic] Tape denigrating women,” Fauci wrote. “Anyone else would be disqualified by this; however, his people still support him.”

You can read the new diary pages below: 

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