Fauci set for high-profile hearing after Paul released diaries

Former chief White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci is set to be under the microscope for a tough Senate hearing on Wednesday, just days after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's diary entries from the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the weekend leading up to the hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Paul released more than 1,000 pages of Fauci's private diary entries, arguing the writings prove the longtime scientist discussed the origins of the virus differently in public from how he did in private. Fauci penned his unrestrained feelings about political figures, both positive and negative, in his diary. While publicly apolitical, Fauci's diary shows that he vehemently disliked how right-wing conservatives talked to him and about him. "The entire extreme right wing republican group in the House and Senate have completely sold their soul to the infinitely lying ex president trump," he wrote. Following a November 2021 Senate hearing, he wrote that he held back from calling Paul 'a liar, which he is.' In December 2020, he called Secretary of State Marco Rubio, then a senator from Florida, a 'real a--hole' for having called him a liar about vaccinations. In the same entry, he called Rubio a 'hypocrite' continuing to 'kiss Trump's a-- -- the world's biggest liar.'