Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar decline
The Kentucky senator said the gold was present but called for a full audit and blamed inflation on deficit spending.
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Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar decline
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What this story says
- Senator Rand Paul inspected U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox on 10 August 2026, the first such visit by a sitting senator in decades.
- The U.S. Mint last fully audited the gold at Fort Knox in 1953, with a partial audit in 1974, according to the Mint’s records.
- Paul said the gold was present and estimated at 147 million ounces but used the visit to argue that the dollar’s purchasing power has fallen by 85-97% since 1913 or 1971.
- No left- or centre-rated outlet carried the story, according to the reports below.
Who covered it
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Trust
45/100
Craft
55/100
Hype
65/100
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Thin on the left so far
None of the 15 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.
This story is still being watched, so it is a count and not yet a finding. Coverage keeps arriving for hours after an event, and a side that has published nothing this morning may publish by tonight. If it is still true when we stop checking, we will say so plainly.
Senator Rand Paul visited the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox on 10 August 2026 to inspect the nation’s gold reserves. The U.S. Mint states that the last full audit of the gold stored there took place in 1953, with a partial audit in 1974. Paul said he saw approximately 147 million ounces of gold, which he described as present and accounted for.
Paul used the visit to argue that the U.S. dollar has lost 85-97% of its purchasing power since 1913 or 1971. He attributed the decline to deficit spending and the Federal Reserve’s creation of new money. In a video posted on social media, Paul said, “Prices are up 25 percent in the last five years. It’s inflation. It’s related to deficit spending. It’s related to unbalanced budgets.”
What the coverage left out
None of the 18 reports below, including the 15 right-rated digests, mentioned that no left- or centre-rated outlet carried the story. None of the digests included a response from the U.S. Mint, the Treasury Department, or any economist on Paul’s claims about the dollar’s decline.
Still developing. We have re-checked which outlets are covering this 6 times, most recently on 13 Aug 2026, 17:30, and will add the sides that appear.
How each side covered it
Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.
Left
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No outlet rated left has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Centre
0 rated outlets
No outlet rated centre has run this story so far. We are still checking, and will say plainly if that does not change.
Right
15 rated outlets
- All 15 right-rated digests below led on Paul’s claim that the gold was present at Fort Knox. The Gateway Pundit’s full report quoted Paul saying, “Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces.” The digests also carried his assertion that the dollar has lost 85-97% of its purchasing power since 1913 or 1971 due to deficit spending and Federal Reserve policy.
- The Gateway Pundit’s report included Paul’s statement that “the media now calls this affordability, but what it really is is inflation.” The outlet also quoted his tweet: “Congress spends without limit, while the Fed prints the difference.” The digests from Life and Liberty, Analyzing America, and The Western Journal all noted that Paul used the visit to “sound the alarm” on inflation and the dollar’s decline.
- The Horn News and RedState framed the story around long-standing rumours about the gold’s presence. The Horn News’s digest said Paul’s visit “may have finally been solved” the “mystery” of whether the gold was still there. RedState’s digest described the visit as an effort to “verify the gold reserves.”
Read it at the source
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Left
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Centre
0No outlet in this group ran the story.
Right
15- Rand Paul Goes Underground at Fort Knox to Inspect America’s Gold — (opens Life and Liberty in a new tab)
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- Rand Paul Sounds Alarm After Touring Fort Knox (opens Analyzing America in a new tab)
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- Rand Paul Goes to Fort Knox (opens American Faith in a new tab)
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- Rand Paul Reveals What He Found Inside Fort Knox (opens TrendingPolitics in a new tab)
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- Fort Knox mystery solved… by Rand Paul?! – The Horn News (opens thehornnews.com in a new tab)
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- Did Sen. Rand Paul just issue a “Trust me, bro” promise? (opens sgtreport.com in a new tab)
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- ‘We’ve come to see the gold’: Watch Rand Paul go underground at Fort Knox to inspect U.S. gold supply (opens ussanews.com in a new tab)
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- ‘We’ve come to see the gold’: Watch Rand Paul go underground at Fort Knox to inspect U.S. gold supply * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs (opens OpsLens in a new tab)
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- ‘We’ve come to see the gold’: Watch Rand Paul go underground at Fort Knox to inspect U.S. gold supply * WorldNetDaily * by Joe Kovacs (opens WND in a new tab)
- Rand Paul Visits Fort Knox, Says Gold Is There and Uses Inspection to Warn About Inflation (opens [your]NEWS in a new tab)
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- Fort Knox Gold Is “Still There,” Republican Senator Claims – 100PercentFedUp.com – by Danielle (opens 100% FED UP! in a new tab)
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- Senator Rand Paul Reveals What He Found After Going Underground Inside Fort Knox to Inspect America’s Gold * The Gateway Pundit * by Cristina Laila (opens The Gateway Pundit in a new tab)
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- Fort Knox Gold Is “Still There,” Republican Senator Claims (opens WLTReport in a new tab)
- Rand Paul Finally Gets Inside Fort Knox Vault and Reveals His Findings (opens The Western Journal in a new tab)
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- Rand Paul Visits Fort Knox: The Gold Is Still There (opens RedState in a new tab)
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3- Rand Paul Becomes a Pawn in Fort Knox Gold Audit Debate (opens Insider Paper in a new tab)
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- Rand Paul Descends Beneath Fort Knox and Reveals What He Found in America’s Gold Vault (opens wokespy.com in a new tab)
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- Senator Rand Paul Reveals What He Found After Going Underground Inside Fort Knox to Inspect America’s Gold - Politics, Policy, Political Views (opens Politics, Policy, Political News in a new tab)
Questions about this coverage
- How did the left and right cover Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar…?
- Of the 15 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 0% are rated left, 0% are rated centre, 100% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 18. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
- Is Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar… left or right?
- The story itself is neither. What can be counted is who has covered it, and 100% of the 15 rated outlets on it are rated right — so far this is a story carried mostly by the right. Coverage is still arriving and that can change, which is why the figure is dated rather than fixed.
- Is the coverage of Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar… biased?
- Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar decline is one event reported by 18 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
- Which side is not reporting Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar…?
- When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
- Which outlets covered Rand Paul inspects Fort Knox gold reserves, links audit to dollar…?
- 18 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
- When was the last full audit of Fort Knox gold?
- The U.S. Mint states the last full audit of Fort Knox gold was in 1953, with a partial audit in 1974. Senator Rand Paul cited these dates during his visit on 10 August 2026, calling for a new audit.
- What did Rand Paul say about the dollar’s purchasing power?
- Paul said the U.S. dollar has lost 85-97% of its purchasing power since 1913 or 1971. He linked the decline to deficit spending and the Federal Reserve’s creation of new money, as reported by The Gateway Pundit and other outlets.
- Which outlets reported on Rand Paul’s Fort Knox visit?
- All 18 reports below were from right-rated or unrated outlets. No left- or centre-rated outlet carried the story, according to the material supplied.
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