Better in their words…

JEFF CHILDERS JUL 26, 2026

“No one is above the law.” You know who used to preach this 3-4x per week? Yes, it was members of that party or ‘direction’. The same group who venerated Mr. Fauci, which now appears to have been not that insightful. mrossol

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No one is above the law. Yesterday I reported on the dramatic Hawaii indictment of that state’s Lt. Governor and other top Democrat officials, describing it as part of a broader arrests effort. Here is that evidence. Last week, Bloomberg Law’s July 22nd exclusive reported, “Trump Targets State Officials Via New DOJ Public Corruption Team.” In other words, they’re just getting started.

“The Justice Department is quietly recruiting prosecutors for a public corruption initiative within its White House-linked fraud division,” Bloomberg said, “potentially ramping up politically charged investigations of state officials ahead of the midterms.”

The story reported, mostly from anonymous sources, that JD Vance’s new fraud team is creating a “public corruption unit,” like a separate strike team within the larger anti-fraud department. Bloomberg recognized the same timeline I described yesterday: first, Trump dismantled the DOJ’s “public integrity section,” which existed to squash all investigations into Democrat officials before they got started.

“Without the public integrity section’s apolitical standards,” the article lied, “the new unit could seek out evidence that blue state officials are somehow culpable due to inattentiveness rather than their affirmative actions.” Bloomberg was suspicious. “The fraud division’s location within Main Justice would bring enforcement of state officials under closer scrutiny by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and his leadership team.”

Referring to the Fraud Task Force’s recent hiring spree of new prosecutors, DOJ spokesperson Matthew Tragesser explained, “The Division is fully committed to holding criminals accountable, including any public official who perpetrates fraud.”

According to Bloomberg’s sources, “The public corruption team is reviewing the intersection of state officials’ misconduct and any fraud perpetrated against government-financed programs.”

In short, it seems like Trump’s DOJ has replaced the old investigation-squashing “Public Integrity Section” with an aggressive “Public Corruption Team.”

Think of how big this news should be. Bloomberg reported that the Trump Administration is planning to target Democrat state officials (“politically charged investigations”) ahead of the midterms. So … why isn’t this bigger news? Why isn’t corporate media running breathless articles condemning weaponized prosecutions?

There’s a good reason why Democrats are not making more of a fuss, even as their top state officials keep getting indicted. Their hands are tied. According to a Brennan Center poll from last month, a whopping 92% of voters say corruption is a big problem in politics and government, with supermajorities of Republicans, Democrats, and independents all agreeing. Headline from the Brennan Center, June 2nd:

Overwhelming majorities. An April, 2025 Cato survey of 2,000 adults found 9 in 10 Americans (89%) support auditing and evaluating all federal government spending to identify and eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse (Democrats 83%, independents 89%, and Republicans 99%).

It’s not even an 80/20 issue. Going after fraud is a 90/10 issue. It might be the most universally popular issue of them all, approaching consensus. Sorry, not approaching. A 90%+ favorability on any issue is already consensus. Last month, the Washington Reporter cited a Senate Republican Conference poll finding 61% of respondents of all parties supported the Vice-President’s task force, compared to only 23% who disapproved. Headline, June 3rd:

Fraud transcends party. It’s a consensus issue even if it mostly targets Democrats. (Who, to be fair, are generally found traveling in packs in areas where the most fraud seems to be located. Weird. Probably just a coincidence.) Once again, we see the Trump team flexing political muscles the Democrats simply do not appear able to mirror.

It’s all upside, if they don’t blunder. All the Trump team needs to do is step carefully and methodically. If they can retain broad credibility —by avoiding overreaches and too-thin prosecutions— and can manage the media cycle well, the fraud crackdown could be enormously popular among everyone but true partisans.

There’s another, even more irony-suffused reason Democrats can’t effectively protest a national anti-fraud task force targeting Democrat officials: the Trump lawfare. After four years of prosecuting the President and screaming “no one is above the law,” Democrats rhetorically disabled themselves from deploying “persecution” and “revenge” narratives.

The Republicans are taking full advantage. Consider this on-point Fox News headline from January:

Now, in 2026, every Democrat “weaponization” press conference invites the clip reel. The irony is even thicker because the predicate here is worse for them than many of the Trump process cases were for him. Feeding Our Future, Medi-Cal hospice rings, Hawaii’s abysmal zero-case Medicaid fraud record— these are theft from kids’ meals and Medicaid, with convictions and dollar totals, not a ‘hush-money’ bookkeeping theory or a documents dispute.

So the 2026 victim frame is not only hypocritical; it is harder to sell to a pro-crackdown public on the merits.

It’s so perfect, it’s almost like it was planned from the beginning. Certainly, President Trump wasted no time advantaging the opportunity. He might well have planned this during his interregnum. Before he could launch a national anti-fraud effort targeting Democrats, he first had to rebuild DOJ and handle the Epstein affair. It sure looks like a scripted timeline. Just connect the dots.

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As you know, this week Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) began disclosing never-before-seen internal emails, transcripts, and documents that all make Anthony Fauci look even more lizard-lipped than he did before— an achievement that many of us had believed impossible. But Senator Paul wasn’t finished. On Friday, he published the coup de grâce: “Tony’s Diary,” published in Rand Paul’s Reading Room.

Corporate media, showing the kind of professionalism and alacrity normally reserved for Somalian Learing Center staff confronted by cameras, roundly and completely ignored what is possibly the most important insight into the most important historical period for anyone who survived it.

But the diary was catnip to Fauci watchers everywhere, including your humble author. Every single entry was like a separate course from a spoiled prix fixe sampler meal at a swanky restaurant that just failed a health inspection. In sum: the uncensored mind of Anthony “Human Cockroach” Fauci is even more deplorable than the man (insect) himself.

Given the tone and style, my best guess is Fauci was not normally a diarist. I’m guessing that, as the first days of the pandemic began erupting like a herpes sore, somebody advised Fauci to write things down every day so he could write a self-aggrandizing book later. It looks like he took the advice, and made daily notes in some kind of running document.

The fact that the vast majority of his observations have never seen daylight proves Fauci was a terrible diarist. He’s no Anne Frank. He thought the entries would make him famous; but they are making him even more infamous.

🔥 The so-called “diary” is huge, packed with typos and dictation blunders, and often requires checking each day’s news cycle to figure out what on Earth Dr. Science was talking about. So it will take a while to sort through it. But I will cover a couple of the “best” (worst) examples making the early rounds. Let’s begin with this nugget, dated May 21, 2020— about five months into the pandemic.

A few trenchant observations.

First, Fauci reported only ‘272’ deaths in the US. This is at the end of May, 2020. The official WHO emergency was declared on March 11, 2020. We can assume Fauci had the best numbers available. To say this hardly matched the manic public reporting is like saying Minnesota daycare is reliably honest.

Of course, maybe it was just a typo. There were plenty of those to go around.

But my goodness. After reciting all the cases and deaths, Fauci shifted to his favorite subject —himself— falling right into permissive narcissism. “It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country,” Fauci wrote of himself, “and one of the most recognizable person(s) in the world.” He wasn’t done. “Countless profiles on me in multiple media. I cannot even read all the things that are written about me since I am so busy….seriously.”

In other words, Fauci was basking in his own limelight. He even noted that, “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.” Uh huh.

What can you say about a man who writes about himself this way? Except that, if you asked us to guess what his private diary might look like, we’d probably have guessed it would be something just like this. Here’s another one, where Fauci complains bitterly about a junior NIAID staffer, Matt Memoli, who bravely stood up to him. (Matt is now the principal deputy director of NIH.)

“Matt Memoli has now gone completely rogue. He is turning into a complete Scott Atlas,” Fauci wrote, apparently reaching for the worst insult he could think of. “Not only does he think that we should not be vaccinating people,” Fauci continued, outraged, “he believes that mandating is unethical because it’s going to make matters worse vis-à-vis the immune response.”

Read the whole thing. Not only does it show Fauci’s obsession with always being right (regardless of whether he was right), and his complete inability to handle questioning from other scientists, but this excerpt shows something even more profound.

What is conspicuously absent from Fauci’s rants, musings, and observations is much actual science work. One would expect the diary of the nation’s top infectious-disease official to reflect concern, diligence, skepticism, and a willingness to question assumptions—to wrestle with uncertain evidence, difficult tradeoffs, scarce resources, and the immense personal burden of guiding the country through a pandemic.

Instead, Fauci displayed virtually no scientific curiosity. His attention was fixed overwhelmingly on bureaucratic infighting, institutional politics, media appearances, dissenters, and himself. The portrait is not flattering. It does not show a scientist methodically pursuing truth under pressure, but a micromanaging administrator preoccupied with protecting his authority and controlling the narrative.

Even Fauci’s own deputy, David Morens (now indicted), told EcoHealth’s Peter Daszak —in an email that seems to show Daszak telling Fauci what to say about covid— that Fauci wasn’t so much interested in the science as much as TV talking points.

Had I time for one more section, I’d show you the email chains of Fauci working his network of NIH grant recipients (that he undoubtedly approved), demanding he be awarded various scientific and humanitarian prizes, along with the generous cash awards that came with them, up to $1 million in at least one case. “You’re rich!”, one person wrote Fauci, to notify him he’d been approved for the $1 million prize he asked for.

Taken together with the diary entries, the emails raise difficult questions: while managing a national emergency, how much of Fauci’s attention was devoted to science and public health, and how much to institutional power and personal prestige— and the lucrative rewards attached to both?

I have a feeling this will let a lot of air out of Fauci’s gaseous mythology as the patron saint of public health. No wonder he’s never published his “diary.”

Fauci appears before the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate on Wednesday starting at 10am. I, and many others, cannot wait.

Have a terrific Sunday! Thank you, as ever, for your continued loyal support of the C&C mission. We’ll be right back here tomorrow morning, ready to serve up another hot and fresh roundup of essential news and caffeinated commentary.