# Anthony Fauci — "molecularly impossible" > [!quote] Analysis of the viruses studied at the Wuhan lab "clearly indicate(s) that it is molecularly impossible for the viruses under the auspices of the NIH grant to have been manipulated into or evolved into" the covid virus. > — Anthony Fauci, private diary entry, July 2021; published by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, July 2026 ## Context A contemporaneous private entry from the 1,100-plus-page diary that HHS Secretary [[Robert F. Kennedy Jr.]] located after an eight-month search of government servers, spanning 11 separate systems, and handed to Sens. [[Rand Paul]] and [[Ron Johnson]]. The committee published the 2019–2022 diary in full around July 22, 2026, without notifying its author. See [[Fauci Diary Hearing]]. The entry addresses the central claim of the [[COVID Lab Leak Weaponization]]: that [[NIH]] grant money routed to bat-coronavirus work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology produced SARS-CoV-2. Fauci's private assessment is that the genetic evidence rules it out for the specific viruses the grant covered. > [!warning] Sourcing note > The parenthetical in "indicate(s)" reflects the rendering carried in [[Heather Cox Richardson]]'s letter of July 29, 2026, which is the KB's source for this quotation's exact wording. The diary's publication and its lab-leak content are confirmed by CNN and other outlets; the verbatim string above has not been independently re-verified against the published pages. Treat the wording as provisional and the substance as confirmed. ## Why This Matters The evidentiary value runs opposite to the purpose of publication. For four years the case against Fauci held that his public statements on COVID's origins were a cover story concealing a private awareness of NIH culpability. The diary is the closest available thing to a test of that: unguarded writing, contemporaneous, never intended for release, obtained without his cooperation and published without his knowledge. It says the same thing he said in public. The committee had read this before it convened the July 29 hearing. It published it a week before the hearing. The hearing proceeded anyway — which is the tell that the proceeding's object was not the origins question. What the hearing could still produce, and did, was a hundred filmed invocations of the Fifth Amendment and a contempt referral. Two limits are worth stating plainly. The entry is Fauci's own assessment, not an independent finding, and a man's diary is not proof of his innocence. And the claim is narrow by construction — it concerns "the viruses under the auspices of the NIH grant," not every virus at the institute. The genuine scientific uncertainty about SARS-CoV-2's origin, catalogued in [[COVID Lab Leak Weaponization]], is untouched by it. What the entry forecloses is the specific allegation that Fauci knew otherwise and lied. ## Verification - **Provenance:** Published by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, ~July 22, 2026, as part of the full 2019–2022 diary. Quoted in [[Heather Cox Richardson]]'s letter of July 29, 2026. Diary publication and contents reported by [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/politics/anthony-fauci-diary-rand-paul) and the Denver Gazette. - **Status:** Substance confirmed; exact wording attributed to HCR's letter and not independently re-verified. See the sourcing warning above. ## Related quotes - [[Anthony Fauci - unhinged obsession]] — from the hearing this diary produced - [[Bernie Moreno - who the fuck do you think you were]] — from the same hearing ## See Also - [[Fauci Diary Hearing]] - [[COVID Lab Leak Weaponization]] - [[Gain-of-Function Research]] - [[Anthony Fauci]]