Ep. 2472 - Fauci's Diary REVEALED.... And What It Shows Is Ugly

The bad guys always think they're the heroes. Anthony Fauci, remember him? Well, it turns out that perhaps the best predictor of monstrously egotistical behavior

is if you have a giant portrait of yourself in your house. Because now we know, Anthony Fauci was a fame-obsessed publicity hound who was willing to use power to subvert the truth.

That's not speculation, that's just reality. Because Anthony Fauci kept a diary, 1,100 pages of a diary, and Rand Paul just dropped all of it.

Here's the thing about a diary. It's where you write what you actually think, not what you tell the cameras. And what Anthony Fauci told the country and what he wrote in private turned out to be kind of different stories.

Wait until you see what's in it. All that, plus President Trump drops jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner, leakers in the White House undermine the war in Iran again, and we play Seven Degrees of Katy Perry.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Okay, so here's the thing about conspiracies. actual conspiracies, not conspiracy theories. There's evidence to them.

And also they accord with typical human behavior. Well, it turns out that in the list of motivations for human beings, ego is the very top of the list. Ego is one hell of a drug.

Remember Anthony Fauci, the head of President Trump's COVID efforts and then Joe Biden's COVID efforts under the National Institutes of Health?

Well, on Friday, Senator Rand Paul published Anthony Fauci's personal diary, which is like 1,100 pages of entries running from late 2019

through Fauci's retirement in December 2022. It's a journal scrapbook that has hundreds of articles about himself inserted into it. 641 entries are labeled press

that are largely about himself. What exactly did he preserve in his diary? Well, among other things, Time Elliott notes on Substack,

he kept the Washington Post column comparing a Rand Paul cross-examination of him to watching Albert Einstein being disputed by his dry cleaner because Fauci is like Albert Einstein,

according to Anthony Fauci. He kept a Joan Baez portrait and her calling him an American hero. He kept cookies from Joe and Jill Biden

with the note, you are our hero. And Julia Roberts gasping on an Instagram live stream that he was her personal hero and Marian Wright Edelman calling him

a true national treasure and Beth Cameron of the NSC texting that he was her hero for what he did with Rand Paul. That's the kind of person that Anthony Fauci is and was. And again, a lot of the public indicators were there.

I mean, remember this from 2021 when Anthony Fauci suggested that attacks on him were identical to attacks on science. They were the same thing.

This is what he told MSNBC at the time. A lot of what you're seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science because all of the things that I have spoken about

consistently from the very beginning have been fundamentally based on science. Sometimes those things were inconvenient truths for people and there was pushback against me.

So if you are trying to, you know, get at me as a public health official and a scientist, you're really attacking not only Dr. Anthony Fauci, you're attacking science. Because he is the science, just like the emperor was the Senate. I am the Senate. That was who Anthony Fauci was.

And you recall, don't you, Anthony Fauci basically using every opportunity to get in front of a camera. And that guy had red light syndrome like no one's business. Remember that you couldn't go to the ballpark during the pandemic for no reason, by the way, because it turns out that COVID did not travel in the open air. Right. COVID COVID was just not being driven by outdoor exposure.

Didn't matter. Entire baseball season played without human beings in the stands, except for Anthony Fauci, who personally went to a Washington Nationals game and they piped in the fake applause. And then he showed up wearing a mask, which he then took off during the game to talk to his friends in the stands. He had the entire place to himself. But he threw out the first pitch.

It was one of the worst first pitches in baseball history. You might recall this one. That is piped in noise, by the way. No one's actually cheering.

And whoa, the 50 cent first pitch. Not good stuff there from Anthony Fauci. Not great. About as wide of the mark as his takes, as it turns out, on the Wuhan virus.

Well, if you go back to his diary, again, it is all ego all the time. So from Fauci's diary, March 21st, 2020, he says, big front page article about me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really

unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person, he says, in the world. Countless profiles on me in multiple media.

I cannot even read all the things that are written about me since I am so busy. Seriously. POTUS seems to be enamored of me,

even though I am taking the spotlight away from him. We're developing a very unique and interesting relationship. The entire Secret Service Corps is coming over to me and chatting. They let me into the first gate without even checking ID.

Everyone is worried about my health and welfare, probably because it is all over the place that I am almost 80 years old. Wow.

Wow, it must be great to be Anthony Fauci. By the way, if you sit there reading your press clippings all day, you're doing it wrong, just in life. July of 2020.

Again, as thousands of people are dying. Governor Andrew Cuomo called me asking how I was. I told him I was upset. The far right was trying to discredit me.

He strongly suggested that I resign. He does not seem to appreciate the difference between resigning from TF and resigning from NIAID. He said, I will lose credibility if I stay

and my legacy needs to be preserved. He said, if I quit, he will make sure I'm hired as an Uber consultant and could do very, very well in the private sector.

Sorry, not for me. And then of course, fast forward to September and he saved a snippet from Jimmy Kimmel