Sen. Rand Paul released new pages from Anthony Fauci’s private diary showing the longtime health official mocked Donald Trump and wrote that he should be impeached.

The Kentucky Republican, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, made the pages public on Wednesday. The entries track years of harsh private judgments about Trump, from the 2016 campaign through a government shutdown early in his presidency.

Just the News reported that the records show Fauci weighing what a Trump win would mean for his agency’s funding and scoring the candidate’s public performance in real time. By January 2019, the writing had moved from campaign critique to a direct call for removal from office.

That gap matters. A senior federal health official kept a running political scorecard on a sitting president and a presidential candidate while holding massive influence over public health policy and money.

2016 entries scored Trump’s campaign in blunt terms

During the 2016 race, Fauci’s notes turned to a September debate and a leaked tape that dominated the final stretch of the campaign. One line left little room for spin.

Fauci wrote:

"Trump made a fool of himself in the debate on Monday 26 Sept,"

After a video recording surfaced in October in which Trump described efforts to seduce a woman, the diary kept going. Fauci logged the story and then measured the political fallout against what he expected from other candidates.

He wrote:

"Trump caught in [sic] Tape denigrating women,"

And then:

"Anyone else would be disqualified by this; however, his people still support him."

Those lines sit beside the committee’s broader finding that Fauci had already started sizing up a Trump presidency for its effect on his agency’s budget. The public face was the nation’s top infectious-disease doctor. The private file read like opposition research.

Earlier diary material has already drawn scrutiny, including pages on how Fauci sought outside political help when press coverage turned against him. The newest release adds the Trump impeachment push in his own hand.

January 2019 note went further during a shutdown

The sharpest entry memorializes the first week of January 2019, written in the middle of a government shutdown. Fauci did not stop at style points. He reached for the constitutional remedy Democrats later tried in Congress.

The diary states:

"He is acting more and more bizarre. Should be impeached, but Dems are rightfully concerned that this will galvanize his base,"

The committee release presents that passage as part of Fauci’s private record on Trump. It pairs a personal judgment, “bizarre”, with a strategic warning that impeachment might backfire by energizing Trump voters. In other words, the objection was not only moral or medical. It was political.

Paul’s panel has spent years pressing Fauci for a full accounting of pandemic-era decisions, funding choices, and sworn testimony. The same committee later moved to hold Fauci in contempt after a Fifth Amendment marathon, keeping the accountability fight alive long after the emergency orders faded.

Paul keeps forcing the paper trail into view

The Wednesday dump arrived as a PDF package labeled for missing years in the diary file. Coverage pegged the release to Oct. 6, 2026, with the Just the News article landing the next afternoon. No venue for the handoff appears in the report, and Fauci’s response is not included.

What is included is enough to redraw the portrait officials sold for years. Americans were told to treat Fauci as a neutral scientist above the partisan fray. His own pages show a man tracking debate nights, sex-tape headlines, base politics, and impeachment math, and fretting about agency cash under a president he clearly opposed.

Related diary releases have already shown how deep the anti-Trump current ran in that circle, including entries on how Obama insulted Trump while offering political cover. Separate Trump-era dramas, from pardon talk to confirmation fights, keep underlining the same divide between voters and the permanent class.

Paul’s willingness to slow-walk nominees he distrusts, including a recent clash that ended when the White House pulled an ICE pick, fits the same pattern. He treats process as leverage when agencies and appointees dodge hard questions.

The new pages do not settle every open issue. The full diary text beyond the quoted lines is not laid out in the initial report. Chain of custody details are thin. Agency-funding passages are summarized rather than quoted at length. Still, the lines that are public are plain English, dated, and brutal.

A health official who wanted Trump disqualified in 2016 and impeached by 2019 was never a blank slate. He was a political actor with a government title, a budget to protect, and a private record that finally caught up to the press conferences.

Voters can live with disagreement. What they should not accept is the long con that power in Washington was ever above politics.