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Exposed Fauci diary shows he estimated COVID-19 death rate to be much lower than what he told Congress

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the ‘Gutfeld!’ panel discuss former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s release of declassified documents related to Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID-19 pandemic. Entries from early 2020 in a now-exposed personal diary kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic show that he privately estimated the death rate from the illness was significantly lower than what he told Congress under oath only weeks later. Fauci, 85, has come under intense scrutiny for years regarding his approach leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his alleged links to the Chinese lab where the virus originated. He will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to speak about his newly publicized personal records. "The stated mortality over all

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Ex-ABC News correspondent claims network overhauled his COVID lab leak report after sending copy to Fauci

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'Daily Show's Desi Lydic roasts Fox News' response to Anthony Fauci's diary

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Exposed Fauci diary shows he estimated COVID-19 death rate to be much lower than what he told Congress

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the ‘Gutfeld!’ panel discuss former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s release of declassified documents related to Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID-19 pandemic. Entries from…

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T2 · Outlet reportFox NewsAug 14, 2026

Former ABC correspondent Terry Moran says ABC News butchered his piece on the COVID lab-leak theory and suggested Anthony Fauci had influence over the decision. E

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T2 · Outlet reportFox NewsAug 8, 2026

Former Vice President Mike Pence recently joined The FOX News Rundown to discuss the ongoing conflict in Iran, as well as the recent release of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-era diary. Pence was candid about his skepticism regarding the Trump…

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T2 · Outlet reportCNNAug 4, 2026

Covid-19 has killed more than a million people in the United States, but in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that lockdowns were “the thing that…

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T2 · Outlet reportMashableJul 31, 2026

Former chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci's diary from the time of Covid has been made available to the press, and Daily Show host Desi Lydic is just as outraged by his entries as the people on Fox News. "This guy is completely obsessed…

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T2 · Outlet reportFox NewsJul 30, 2026

Jennifer Sey, founder of the startup sportswear brand XX-XY Athletics and author of the book Levi’s Unbuttoned: The Woke Mob Took My Job But Gave Me My Voice, joined Harry Hurley on the Guy Benson Show today to discuss Fauci’s testimony…

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T2 · Outlet reportFox NewsJul 30, 2026

Joe Concha, Fox News Contributor, columnist for the Washington Examiner, & author of the book The Greatest Comeback Ever: Inside Trump’s Big Beautiful Campaign Hardcover, joined Harry Hurley on the Guy Benson Show to discuss the…

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