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The entries were released by Senator Rand Paul.","category":"Politics","area":null,"publishedAt":"2026-10-07T22:05:29.020Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-10-07T21:14:12.129Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-07T22:05:29.020Z","readTime":"4 min read","scores":{"trust":42,"critic":61,"hype":41,"notes":{"trust":"Two full reports and four digests cite diary entries, with one full report naming a specific document.","critic":"Reports quote directly from diary entries and attribute claims to named individuals and organizations.","hype":"Headlines and opening paragraphs use loaded language to describe the diary entries."}},"tags":["#AnthonyFauci","#DonaldTrump","#EbolaVaccine","#RandPaul","#PublicHealth"],"entities":["Anthony Fauci","Donald Trump","Rand Paul","World Health Organization","HHS","Ebola"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["Newly released diary entries from former NIH official Anthony Fauci, covering 2015-2019, have been made public by Senator Rand Paul.","One entry from January 2019 shows Fauci writing that President Trump 'Should be impeached' over his insistence on funding for the border wall.","Fauci also privately wrote of 'multiple flaws' in the design and data analysis of an Ebola vaccine candidate, despite the WHO declaring it up to 100% effective.","The entries suggest Fauci was concerned about public perception and potential conflict between HHS and WHO regarding the Ebola vaccine data."]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Newly available private diary entries from former National Institutes of Health official Anthony Fauci, covering the years 2015 to 2019, have been released by Senator Rand Paul. The writings offer a private perspective on his views of then-President Donald Trump and his assessment of an Ebola vaccine candidate."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In an entry dated January 2019, Fauci wrote that Trump \"Should be impeached\" due to his insistence on funding for the border wall. Fauci also noted that Democrats were concerned this stance would galvanize Trump's base. This entry was made about a year before the COVID-19 pandemic began."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The diary entries also detail Fauci's private assessment of an Ebola vaccine. While the World Health Organization declared in July 2015 that the vaccine had demonstrated \"up to 100% efficacy in individuals,\" Fauci privately wrote of \"multiple flaws in the design and the analysis of the data\" supporting the candidate. He described the study design as \"terribly flawed\" and stated that the data, \"strictly speaking, are not statistically significant.\""},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fauci also expressed concern about how to handle the messaging around the Ebola vaccine. He wrote, \"We cannot criticize the study since that is exactly what the press is looking for and that will create tension between HHS and WHO.\" He noted that HHS was \"too stupid to realize that.\""},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on vaccine efficacy assessment"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The World Health Organization declared its Ebola vaccine had demonstrated \"up to 100% efficacy in individuals\" in July 2015. However, Anthony Fauci privately wrote that \"The data, strictly speaking, are not statistically significant\" for the vaccine. He also privately wrote of \"multiple flaws in the design and the analysis of the data\" supporting the candidate."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the right-rated reports below mention the documents released by Paul's committee in September showing that in the spring of 2016, the U.S. military discovered that vaccinated primates exposed to aerosolized Ebola showed lung injury that unvaccinated primates did not. Nor do they mention the earlier study that uncovered the same worrying vaccine-induced lung injury in a vaccine made by Profectus, or refer to Crucell, now Janssen, the drug arm of Johnson & Johnson, which codeveloped an Ebola vaccine with Fauci’s institute."}],"basedOn":[{"sourceName":"Tennessee Star","url":"https://tennesseestar.com/justice/fauci-wanted-trump-impeached-over-border-wall-misled-public-about-ebola-vaccine-diary-entries-reveal/dcnf/2026/10/07","headline":"Fauci Wanted Trump Impeached over Border Wall, Misled Public About Ebola Vaccine, Diary Entries Reveal","angle":"","publishedAt":"2026-10-07T21:14:12.129Z"},{"sourceName":"news-pravda.com","url":"https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/10/07/2648276.html","headline":"Sen. 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