Just two days after the first case of the novel coronavirus was confirmed in the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci was already imagining himself to be an adversary to President Donald Trump. Fauci wrote about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in a series of diary entries — published Saturday by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) ahead of Fauci’s planned Capitol Hill testimony on Wednesday — and it was clear that the former White House medical adviser fancied himself to be the guy who would tell the truth even if doing so provoked the ire of the president. The first confirmed case — involving a man who had recently traveled from Wuhan, China, to Snohomish County, Washington — was reported on January 20, 2020. Fauci wrote about that the following day, saying, “He walked into a clinical with fever and respiratory sxs and was smart enough to mention that he just came from Wuhan.” He followed that comment with a list of nine interviews he’d done with various media outlets about the rapidly spreading virus. On January 22, Fauci noted that the United States was moving to contain the spread by routing all travelers from Wuhan through five airports where they could be screened upon arrival — “Chicago ORD and Atl airports added to entry screening with JFK, LAX, and SFO,” he wrote — and he noted that worldwide, there had been 400 reported cases and nine deaths. Just above his usual daily list of media appearances, he wrote, “On the interview below (FOX Business with David Asman) one of the panel asked me to comment of a clip he played where Trump said that everything is under control. Xi Jinping told him everything is under control.” He then suggested that Trump might view it as a direct contradiction when he said that the situation was being taken “very seriously,” adding, “I had to answer that we are taking this very seriously and that Americans should not be frightened or worry, but we are taking it seriously. Let us see if this pits me against the POTUS.” If Fauci’s later entries are to be believed, Trump was clearly unbothered by that particular comment. Two weeks lates, on February 6, Fauci wrote, “When we walked in the POTUS was not yet in the room. When he walked in with Melania, the first thing he did was say, ‘Anthony, come here and say hello to Melania.’ Then, to my embarrassment in front of everyone (Kellyanne, Mick, Bob O’Brien and many in Cabinet) he told Melania that I was the smartest person in the world.”

The cash-strapped Democratic National Committee is in full-blown meltdown, according to a New York Times report, with its chair, Ken Martin, descending into fear and “a growing sense of paranoia” about his job security.  Facing a cash crunch, the Democratic National Committee has asked vendors to hold off on sending bills until after the midterms, The Times reported — an unusual move exposing the party’s financial struggles with just a few months left before the November election. The comparative financial status of the two parties is stark: President Trump has a $400 million war chest — and the RNC has another $130 million available — and the DNC is reportedly about $2 million in debt, according to The Times.  Martin is reportedly growing increasingly anxious about the DNC’s financial woes and whether or not he will be able to keep his job. The chairman, responsible for fundraising, party operations, and campaign infrastructure, is “relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts,” The Times reported Sunday. The outlet painted a picture of a rattled DNC chairman, who, in early July, reportedly hurled his phone at the desk of a junior aide while scolding the individual. The alleged incident was severe enough to result in a formal Human Resources complaint. Martin declined to comment.  In a separate story, NOTUS reported Sunday that the Democratic National Committee used its headquarters as collateral last year to secure a $15 million line of credit to fund off-year elections. Some left-wing commentators on Sunday hit the panic button “This is not sustainable,” said MS NOW host Joe Scarborough. “Anyone who cares about the Democratic Party — including Ken Martin — would say ‘Enough.’ The DNC is flat broke. This must change now.”  This is not sustainable. Anyone who cares about the Democratic Party—including Ken Martin—would say “Enough”. The DNC is flat broke. This must change now. https://t.co/Zse52CO2nO — Joe Scarborough (@ScarboroughNow) July 26, 2026 It’s the latest blow to the embattled DNC chairman, who faced withering criticism over his handling of the party’s so-called 2024 autopsy examining Kamala Harris’ loss to President Donald Trump. In May, Martin defended releasing the report after delaying it for months, telling CNN: “After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction.” “The future could become even more difficult. Demographic and population projections indicate an accelerating population shift away from traditionally Democratic states,” the report found. “With radical midterm redistricting efforts underway, the writing is on the wall, and the call is coming from inside the House. We either adapt to the changing conditions of the arena, or history will leave us behind.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former Chief Medical Advisor to the President, appeared consumed with media attention and his growing public image as the coronavirus pandemic claimed lives and overwhelmed hospitals around the globe. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY) released an avalanche of private Fauci diaries ahead of his expected testimony this Wednesday before a key oversight committee.   The documents shed light on the COVID adviser’s obsession with his public profile at the height of the years-long pandemic. Inside the near-daily journal entries chronicled Fauci’s nonstop media appearances on local and national outlets, reaching a level of publicity that Fauci himself couldn’t help but blush about.  The Daily Wire is publishing excerpts from Fauci’s journal without any edits or spelling corrections. “Press still hot and heavy about me,” Fauci wrote on April 7, 2020. “Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me.” Weeks later, hundreds of thousands of infections spread worldwide, and nearly 10,000 had died from the virus when Fauci penned the following journal entry on May 21, 2020.  “Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyoperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson in the world,” Fauci wrote.  “Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written abuyt 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 are developing a very unique and interesting relationship,” he added.  Fauci also recounted how U.S. Secret Service agents routinely waved him through the White House gates without asking to see his badge, often striking up casual conversations. “Everyone is worried about my health and welfare, probably because it is all over the place that I am almost 80 years old,” he wrote at the time.  About a month later, Fauci admitted to telling his counterpart, Dr. Deborah Birx, that the administration’s infamous contact tracing and isolation strategy to combat the virus was a “f*cking disaster and an abject failure.” In the same journal entry, however, Fauci quipped about being invited to appear on “Dancing With The Stars.”  The infatuation with television hits did not stop as the virus abated in parts of the country and red-state governors started reopening measures. In a June 29 meeting with then-Vice President Mike Pence, Fauci pleaded to get back on the big screens.  “I told him that I am being blocked from TV and I needed to get on TV to give the ‘risk reduction” message and that I would avoid being pitted against him or the POTUS merely by not playing that game,” he wrote. “He did promise that he would get me out there on TV since he really liked my message. First time anyone ever spoke that way to VP. He truly likes me a lot (and vice versa).”  “Now we have to get the POTUS press people to agree. Interesting intrigue in the White House. POTUS people versus VP people,” he added, suggesting internal divisions at the time over public relations strategy.  In June, Sen. Paul announced that he issued a subpoena after Fauci allegedly backed out of an agreement to voluntarily appear.  “Last week, Anthony Fauci notified us he will NOT voluntarily testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, even though he had previously agreed to do so,” Paul wrote on X. “Therefore, today I have issued a subpoena requiring him to testify before the Committee, in public, next month.” The subpoena is the first issued by Paul since taking over as chairman of the committee, which granted its chairman unilateral subpoena authority last year, The Daily Wire reported. Speaking to Semafor, Paul said months of negotiations with Fauci ultimately broke down after the former public health official agreed to appear and then reversed course. “He’s been slow-walking information to us for six months or more,” Paul told the outlet. “We’ve been negotiating over the date for several months. He agreed, then he said he wouldn’t. So, I think it’s time that we bring him in.” 1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories. Today I’m releasing his entries from December 2019 through December 2022.

Dr. Anthony Fauci rejected questions about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and funding sent from the United States to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, saying that he was “wasting” time by addressing the concerns posed by members of Congress. Fauci’s private thoughts were presented for public consumption when Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) — who was responsible for asking many of the aforementioned questions — published a number of diary entries he’d uncovered while investigating the former White House medical adviser. Paul shared a lengthy thread on X, complete with screenshots of some of the most relevant diary entries, and added some of his own notes ahead of Fauci’s scheduled testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. 9/9 July 12, 2021. Fauci complains about “how many hours we are all wasting” answering letters he calls “fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories” — from senators he names, including me. Asking who funded the research is not a conspiracy theory. It’s oversight. pic.twitter.com/ZgjIrsyAam — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) July 25, 2026 On July 7, 2021 — long after it was first posited in January of 2020 that a new coronavirus strain could have been leaked from the Wuhan lab, either intentionally or accidentally — Fauci wrote that he had actively encouraged members of the National Security Council to work with several “qualified”virologists to dig into the pandemic’s origins. Two of the four virologists he’d recommended to the NSC came out with a paper that same day arguing that the virus had occurred naturally. On July 9, Fauci complained about “how many hours we are all wasting” taking questions about whether or not U.S. funding for the Wuhan lab had been used to conduct dangerous “gain-of-function” research that would have made the virus more deadly. “It is important to point out how many hours we are all wasting in responding to the multiple letters from senators and congressmen fundamentally driven by conspiracy theories that the NIH has funded work at Wuhan institute of virology that led to SARS-CoV-2,” he wrote. “For example, over the weekend I was on multiple zoom calls with my staff fine-tuning the letters in response to the multiple questions.” He referenced Paul as one of the senators asking questions, and then voiced surprise that he’d also received questions from Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) because “he generally is a friendly person to me.”

In yet another series of antisemitic attacks in Toronto, masked vandals shot up and smashed the windows of two Jewish-owned bakeries on Saturday, the latest gut-punch in a relentless run of anti-Jewish violence terrorizing Canada’s largest city. Cops confirmed evidence of gunfire at the beloved bakery Kiva’s Yonge and St. Clair outpost, while a second location near Bathurst and Steeles also had its window busted out — though without shots fired there. Miraculously, nobody was hurt in either attack. The kosher-style bagel shop, a Jewish community fixture since 1979, has three GTA locations and is currently run by brothers Ben, Elan and Steve Rafael. Police say they’re probing whether the two hits are connected. Window broken, gunshot fired at Kiva's Jewish-owned bakery in Toronto, police say https://t.co/VFOEjwAQ6t via @torontostar Kiva’s bakery is kosher-style and known for its popular bagels and baked goods. It has long been a hub for the Jewish community. The original bakery opened… — Israel Heritage Foundation (@IHF_Heritage) July 26, 2026 Mayor Olivia Chow stated,  “We in Toronto will double our efforts. Toronto police through Project Resolute have been guarding synagogues and Jewish community centers and places 24/7, and we’ll see what else we could do.” The bakery attack is only the newest scar in a years-long surge that’s turned Toronto into ground zero for antisemitic hate crime in Canada. Despite making up under 4% of the population, Jews have been the top target of hate crimes citywide since well before the pandemic — and things have only gotten uglier. The real inflection point came after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, when antisemitic incidents in Toronto exploded 80% almost overnight. By 2024, police logged a record 443 hate crimes citywide, with Jews the victims in a jaw-dropping 40% of them and 81% of all religiously-motivated attacks. That violence has since escalated into a terrifying pattern of gunfire at Jewish institutions. A Jewish girls elementary school in North York was shot at three times in 2024. n March 2025, a suspect was charged for targeting five Toronto synagogues. Vandalism hit Kehillat Shaarei Torah in November. March 2026 brought shootings at three synagogues, prompting a $10M security fund. In May, congregants were literally being shot at with gel-blaster guns leaving Shabbat services, with watchdog group B’nai Brith warning 2026 is shaping up to be the bloodiest year for Canadian Jews in memory. With no arrests made in most of the recent attacks, Jewish leaders say fear is becoming the defining feature of daily life in Toronto.