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Trump blasts Fauci as Paul releases 1,000-page journals

7/29/2026

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Summary

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U.S. President Donald Trump posted a rant attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci before Fauci’s Senate testimony on Wednesday.
Trump claimed Covid deaths were higher under President Joe Biden, praised Operation Warp Speed, and said he overrode Fauci on pandemic decisions.
Senator Rand Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci’s 2020-2022 journal entries, prompting supporters to label Fauci a “disaster” and “idiot.”

History

Historical Context

The 1918 influenza pandemic, infecting an estimated 500 million people and killing up to 100 million, led the U.S. Public Health Service to recommend masks and social-distancing. Local opposition, such as San Francisco’s Anti-Mask League, sparked a federal-local clash that helped drive the 1919 creation of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization and shaped future pandemic policy.

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Story summary

U.S. President Donald Trump posted a rant attacking Dr. Anthony Fauci before Fauci’s Senate testimony on Wednesday.
Trump claimed Covid deaths were higher under President Joe Biden, praised Operation Warp Speed, and said he overrode Fauci on pandemic decisions.
Senator Rand Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci’s 2020-2022 journal entries, prompting supporters to label Fauci a “disaster” and “idiot.”

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