Former CDC Director: Fauci’s Diary Entries Prove He Lied About Coronavirus

Questions about the federal government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic are surging back into the political spotlight after former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield pointed to newly released material from Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private writings.

The disclosures are adding new fuel to a controversy that has never fully disappeared: whether federal health officials gave Americans the complete truth about the virus, the vaccines, and COVID-19’s origins.

Redfield, who led the CDC from 2018 through the end of President Donald Trump’s first term, said this week that excerpts from Fauci’s diaries appear to reinforce concerns he and other critics have raised for years.

Speaking on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast, Redfield discussed diary excerpts recently released by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., as congressional Republicans renew their examination of Fauci’s pandemic-era actions.

One entry, according to Redfield, describes Fauci receiving a COVID-19 vaccine before later suffering a pulmonary embolism.

Redfield cited the episode while discussing potential adverse events associated with mRNA vaccines.

“It is interesting if you read Tony’s diaries,” Redfield said during the interview.

“We didn’t know it at the time, but he talks about how he got vaccinated, then later had a pulmonary embolism, which we now know microcoagulation and embolism is a significant injury that’s associated with the mRNA vaccines,” Redfield said.

“I think the American public was misled in that regard too,” he added.

Redfield also took aim at some of the sweeping public-health messaging used to promote vaccination, particularly claims suggesting that vaccination would meaningfully prevent people from transmitting the virus to vulnerable family members.

“This vaccine never prevented infection, so when people said ‘vaccinate your children so they don’t infect grandma,’ that was just a false statement,” Redfield said.

His criticism goes beyond vaccine messaging.

Redfield accused Fauci of misleading Americans on several major questions surrounding the pandemic, including both the effectiveness of the vaccines and the origins of the coronavirus.

Fauci has repeatedly denied deliberately deceiving Congress or the public and has maintained that his recommendations reflected the scientific information available at the time.

Redfield, however, remains unconvinced.

“The American public was definitely misled,” Redfield said.

The former CDC chief also reflected on the personal dimension of his disagreement with Fauci.

The two men worked together for decades on major public-health issues, beginning long before COVID-19 transformed Fauci into one of the most recognizable — and polarizing — federal officials in the country.

“I was very disheartened because I’ve worked with Fauci since the 1980s, and he’s done a lot of good things over his career,” Redfield said.

But Redfield suggested Fauci’s pandemic legacy may ultimately overshadow much of that earlier work.

He pointed specifically to Fauci’s recent appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, where the former federal health official invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination while facing questions from lawmakers.

For congressional Republicans, that testimony is only intensifying pressure for a deeper reckoning over the government’s pandemic response.

Lawmakers continue investigating a wide range of issues, including vaccine policy, government messaging, gain-of-function research, federal funding decisions, and the still-contentious debate over how COVID-19 first emerged.

Fauci has long argued that public-health recommendations changed because the science itself changed as researchers gathered more data.

Critics counter that evolving science does not excuse statements they believe went beyond what officials could confidently prove at the time.

That dispute now appears poised to move into an even more serious phase.

Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that a potential contempt of Congress vote against Fauci could ultimately be referred to the Justice Department for possible criminal consideration.

“It’s actually a law. It’s a resolution,” Paul said.

The latest disclosures ensure that the fight over accountability for the pandemic is far from over.

For millions of Americans who endured mandates, school closures, economic disruption, censorship battles, and sweeping government restrictions, the question is no longer simply what officials knew.

It is whether they told the public the full truth when it mattered most.