MAGA Melts Down Over Fauci Diary Revelations

Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in MAGA's crosshairs after his diaries were made public over the weekend. Sen. Rand Paul released thousands of pages of Fauci's diary entries made during the pandemic on X. The dump ignited a wave of fury from MAGA influencers, who picked apart the pages. Fauci is portrayed by Paul in his posts as an egomaniac who lied to Congress and the American people about the source of the COVID-19 pandemic, its deadliness, and lockdowns. It's a portrait that MAGA accounts on social media have been all-too-happy to pick up and run with. "On a day when thousands of Americans were dying, Fauci wrote: 'Press still hot and heavy about me. Multiple stories per day, directly or indirectly involving me.' While the country was in crisis, the diary shows a man closely tracking his own media coverage and rising fame," David Freeman, who goes by Gunther Eagleman on X, wrote. Fox contributor Kaylee McGhee White took umbrage at a passage in the diary where Fauci refers to being attacked by President Donald Trump, and recounts reassuring a colleague that "at the end of the day we will be loved by the people we care about." "Who were the people that he cared about?" she railed. "The only people that Fauci cared about were the people waving their little Fauci bobbleheads, and most of all the only person that he actually cared about was himself." Fauci is expected to appear before Congress on Wednesday to address the diary entries. He declined to comment on this story.