Fauci Obsessed Over Media Coverage, Claimed to Be Bigger Star Than Trump.

**Todd Starnes** (0:10)
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**Todd Starnes** (0:28)
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I am really anxious to dig in to this Dr. Anthony Fauci story. And Fauci testifying on Capitol Hill this week. And we now know that Dr. Fauci was obsessed with his celebrity status and his media coverage. Senator Rand Paul getting copies of his diary from 2019 to 2022 And Dr. Anthony Fauci was a prolific journaler. He was journaling all the time. And we now know as a result of the fine investigative work by Senator Rand Paul, this guy was a nut job, ladies, an absolute nut job. Unbelievable the kind of stuff that we have learned. One of the more interesting things is that Dr. Fauci was actually involved in a deep friendship with CNN's Jake Tamper. And Jake Tamper would actually have Dr. Fauci over to his home for private dinners. Fauci called it friendship building. And it was so disturbing when you read through the journal entries. It's very clear that CNN was now in cahoots with Dr. Fauci and advancing all of these fake narratives. You know, it's interesting, Fauci early on, I think a lot of people, a lot of folks in the conservative movement, especially very concerned about Fauci. But this guy was literally lionized by the legacy media. They made him out to be like, I don't know, Jesus? Jesus in a lab coat?
I mean, it was really remarkable. And they called it, we were calling what St. Fauci at the time. And Fauci was going on in a lot of these. Well, for example, March 21st, that was when deaths were at 9,800 in America. And he's gushing in his journal, big front page article about me, appeared in the Washington Post, very flattering. My national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. This is literally coming from the journal entries here. It's not hyperbole to say that today, I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable persons in the world.
The press is going wild with me. This is March 22nd, 30,000 dead people in America. And this is what Fauci is writing in his personal journal. Press is going wild with me.
Front page in Washington Post yesterday, op-ed by Maureen Dowd in New York Times Today about me, profile by Peter Nicholas on me in the Atlantic. He was literally tracking the body count and his press clippings on the same page in the journal. And this is some pretty sick stuff here, ladies and gentlemen. Now, here's something that's interesting. Fauci was denying in public that he ever said anything about shutting down schools and shutting down the bars and the restaurants and all of that kind of stuff. I want you to listen to cut number four, please.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:20)
They always come back and say Fauci was responsible for closing schools.

**Anthony Fauci** (4:24)
I had nothing to do.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:26)
I mean, let's get down to the facts.

**Todd Starnes** (4:29)
Well, let's get down to the facts because in his actual journal entry, he admits that he spoke with Bill de Blasio. Remember Comrade de Blasio? He was a mayor of New York City at the time. And here's what he said. I spoke with Bill de Blasio and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools. I went on to tell him that he should close the bars and restaurants in New York City. And he said he would base this on my recommendation. I had a similar call with Anne O'Leary, the chief of staff of Governor Gavin Newsom of California. Anne said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the governors decided to close the schools in California, as well as the bars and the restaurants. And then he says, when I left the White House and crossed Pennsylvania Avenue, several cars honked their horns and shouted thank you out the window.
Unbelievable. This guy is so full of himself. And yet because of his policies, because of his recommendations, how many of you actually got the clot shot and or maybe a loved one got the clot shot, ended up losing their lives? We now know that more people died from the getting the vaccine itself than the actual having the actual China virus.