Dr. Faucis bizarre fame fixation as COVID deaths mounted revealed in newly released diaries

Dr.Anthony Fauci became increasingly fixated on his newfound fame as pandemic deaths soared, reveal the former White House COVID adviser’s newly released diary entries.As early as April 2020, when more than 60,000 people had already died of COVID in the United States, the man in charge of America’s response to the pandemic was obsessing about his recent stardom, according to journals released by Kentucky Republican Sen.

and long-term Fauci critic Rand Paul.“Press still hot and heavy about me.Multiple stories per day directly or indirectly involving me,” Fauci wrote in an entry dated April 7, 2020, amid intensifying media coverage around the White House Coronavirus Task Force.On May 21, 2020, the top doc wrote that his “national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable,” adding it was “not hyperbole” to describe his celebrity in terms of global recognition, according to the diary.By this point, nearly 98,000 Americans had died of COVID, and the 85-year-old doctor was involved in extensive task-force meetings.In late June 2020, as US daily COVID cases reached a record 40,000 in a single day, Dr.

Fauci felt fit to mention that he had received an invitation to appear on TV’s “Dancing with the Stars.”The doctor also repeatedly addressed his growing friction with the Trump White House, claiming that “countless” media profiles about him, and his increased media presence, were turning him into “a star that outshines” the president, he wrote.He also reflected on his growing celebrity by adding that the Secret Service officers stationed at the White House gates would now routinely wave his vehicle through security checkpoints without asking to inspect his identification because they were so familiar with seeing him.Dr.Fauci insisted he had “no desire to conflict with, embarrass or show up the POTUS” when he later decided to stop participating altogether in profile interviews.Sen.

Paul, chairman of the Senate Homeland S...