Miranda Devine: Anthony Fauci was the big head of COVID response

The vanity of Anthony Fauci will be his undoing.Until now, the deceitful health bureaucrat’s reputation has remained intact despite damning revelations about his attempted cover-up of the origins of COVID-19, suspected involvement in outsourcing dangerous research on bat viruses to China and mishandling of the pandemic.But, days before Fauci has to again face his nemesis, Kentucky Sen.Rand Paul, on Capitol Hill, his excruciatingly embarrassing diary entries have turned him into a laughingstock.In a bombshell data dump Saturday, Paul, chairman of the Senate’s oversight committee, which will grill Fauci under oath on Wednesday, released what he said was Fauci’s diary from December 2019 through December 2022.“What he wrote privately and what he told the country are two different stories,” tweeted Paul, who has long accused Fauci of being involved in the virus’ creation.Fauci emerges from the diary entries as a frivolous narcissist, possibly corrupt and a really bad speller (for example, “dyswaded” for dissuaded).As the global death toll mounted, Fauci’s diary shows he was increasingly preoccupied with his rising media profile and reveling in the admiration, especially the praise from celebrities, all of which he meticulously ­recorded.“Much praise for me,” he gushed on March 4, 2020, after recording 108 cases of coronavirus in the US and 10 deaths.“Everyone in the WH is congratulating me on the piece [fawning Politico profile of Fauci].

The public adulation of me has been amazing with every young intern as well as seasoned veteran in the WH coming over to me congratulating me and thanking me for my work and even asking for selfies.”On March 15, 2020, he wrote: “BIG DAY!… USA = 2888 [cases] with 58 deaths . . .I did all 5 Sunday Shows today (my 3rd Fauci 5) with This Week on ABC, Meet the Press on NBC, Face the Nation on CBS, FOX with Chris Wallace and CNN.”Day after day he recorded the praise, the media profiles, the “multiple ...