Fauci grew annoyed by 'obnoxious adolescent' Trump as Covid spiraled, diary reveals

Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic, privately complained about President Donald Trump's ramblings -- and compared him to an 'obnoxious adolescent' -- in personal diary entries released this weekend. More than a thousand pages of Fauci's journal were released by Sen. Rand Paul, who heads the Senate Homeland Security Committee. As part of an investigation into the origins of Covid-19, Paul has called on Fauci to testify on the pandemic before the committee Wednesday. In a March 29, 2021 entry, Fauci called Trump an 'obnoxious adolescent.' Fauci also vented about Trump's 'rambling,' in numerous entries, writing on March 27, 2020, 'Very laborious press conference where the POTUS rambled on. He wasted the opportunity to just focus on the relief package and went into his diatribe against previous administrations.' A day later, he called a discussion with Trump a 'disturbingly rambling discussion.' In April 2021, Fauci wrote that members of the 'radical right wing' like Paul, were trying to 'connect me with the virus from WUHAN,' adding that, 'They are saying that I deliberately worked with the Chinese together with [zoologist] Peter Daszak to create a virus that would be released to the world. This sounds very much like a way-out conspiracy theory, which it is. However, there are enough crazy people around to make this a problem.'