RAND PAUL RELEASES DOCUMENTS ON INTERCEPTED COVID RESEARCH MATERIALS:
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has released another batch of documents related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The latest records show that U.S. officials intercepted undeclared biological materials tied to a U.S.–China coronavirus research network as early as 2018, likely in an attempt to avoid international tensions and regulatory scrutiny, Paul said.
The documents, which include a Department of Homeland Security intelligence report, primarily focus on a network centered around University of Minnesota virologist Fang Li.
The released documents also include pages from “Tony’s Diary:”
Privately, in his diaries, Doctor Fauci admitted he no longer believed the wet market was the origin of covid. A week later, he convenes a call with 12 scientists, and only two of them think it's definitely animal spillover.
Publicly, he comes out against lab leak and presses… https://t.co/OUc88vmIqv
— Robby Soave (@robbysoave) July 26, 2026
As Jim Geraghty writes, “For the entirety of 2020 and long after, the ‘it started in a wet market’ view was the respectable one. Believing that somebody at the Wuhan Institute of Virology hadn’t been careful one day and had gotten accidentally infected with a virus that had gained a function or two during its time in the lab made you a crazy conspiracy theorist. In fact, the lab leak theory was evidence of your racism. And now — in July 2026! — we learn that Fauci himself had dismissed the wet market as a potential source at the end of January 2020.”
Then there’s an incredible juxtaposition by Fauci of new deaths and new WaPo profiles:
Fauci's diary entry for May 21, 2020 is one of the most grotesque documents you will ever read. It opens with the mounting Covid death toll and people dying across the country, then abruptly pivots into an extended exercise in self-congratulation about his newfound fame. How was… pic.twitter.com/IMpCWerfTR
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) July 25, 2026
Alyssa Farah, now an employee of ABC News, makes an appearance in “Tony’s Diary:”
Apparently while working at the White House, Alyssa was moonlighting as guest booker for CNN: pic.twitter.com/XHjq1inCXz
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 26, 2026