By Douglas V. Gibbs
During the pandemic (that I call the scamdemic), I refused to wear a mask or be injected. My wife also never received the jab, wearing a mask at work only because she faced termination otherwise. We didn’t stay home. We didn’t play the six-feet social distancing game. I taught two Constitution classes weekly, each with at least a dozen students. I attended church every Sunday at a packed venue where nobody wore masks. We dined at restaurants that refused to comply with the mandates and we traveled to Yuma, Arizona and St. George, Nevada for weekend getaways because those locations remained largely mask-free. Neither of us ever contracted COVID.
In a conversation during the twilight of the COVID madness with one of my sisters-in-law, she said to me, “So, let me get this straight. You and Virginia didn’t wear masks and didn’t receive the vaccine, and you didn’t get COVID? Mom and I wore masks all the time and got all the shots and boosters, and we both came down with COVID three times.”
I questioned the validity of mainstream political claims from the very beginning. “Where are the bodies in the streets?” I asked. Every death happened in hospitals. Some people died, but it was obvious that the numbers were being padded, and the disease was not the Captain Tripps (from Stephen King’s THE STAND) that they were trying to make it out to be.
I never believed Dr. Anthony Fauci or the wet-market argument. My theory was that the creation and release of the COVID virus was done deliberately by China and members of the Trump-Hating Deep State who were willing to do whatever it took to ensure a distraction large enough to influence the 2020 Election and divert attention from the fraudulent activities committed by those still angry that Donald Trump had derailed their plans when he beat Hillary Clinton four years earlier. The only problem was that the virus wasn’t as deadly as they’d hoped – but they still played the game as originally intended and did everything they could to drum up panic.
To cover up the lab-release of the virus, Dr. Fauci pushed the wet-market myth, presenting the Huanan Seafood Market as the probable site where Covid-19 first crossed into humans. However, Fauci’s own contemporaneous information, including his personal diary, indicate the virus was circulating before it reached the market. According to Fauci’s notes regarding the “Proximal Origin” conference call, only two of the 12 scientists participating believed a natural origin was likely. Released Slack messages reveal Kristian Anderson, the lead author of the “Proximal Origin” paper, not only admitted the lab escape version was likely the true version but wrote that “they were already doing this type of work and molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.” The authors continued to express doubts about their own conclusions while publicly defending the paper and portraying laboratory involvement as scientifically implausible.
He used government funds to bribe doctors and finance papers to confirm his argument that the wet-market theory was accurate. He set the process for the COVID origins argument and was intimately involved in managing its publication.
Fauci destroyed evidence and encouraged others to do so. On February 2, 2020, he instructed NIH Director Francis Collins to “please delete this e-mail after you read it” a day after the “Proximal Origin” conference call. He issued another delete-after-reading instruction to his own staff in July 2020. He later testified before Congress that he never deleted federal records or sought to obstruct their production.
On May 23, 2021, reports emerged that in November 2019, three researchers had become ill with COVID-like symptoms. Kristian Anderson wrote, according to a released Slack message, that the team “get it and deeply appreciate what we’re doing, so we’ll keep dancing.”
Dr. Anthony Fauci later testified under oath that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) never funded gain-of-function research (altering a pathogen’s abilities to study it) at the Chinese Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was suggested as the origin of the COVID virus. A documented funding trail confirmed that NIH was indeed providing this funding, which means he lied to Congress.
Not only was there funding, but the work was maniacally sinister at best, and they remained silent about it. The furin cleavage site, for example, is a short insertion in the virus’ spike protein that enables host enzymes to cleave the protein efficiently, significantly affecting the virus’ ability to infect cells and spread. SARS-CoV-2’s furin cleavage site is absent from all its closest known relatives. No natural SARS-like coronavirus with a furin cleavage site has ever been found. It was inserted purposely, and researchers had already demonstrated a keen interest in introducing such cleavage sites into SARS-related coronaviruses. The 2018 DEFUSE proposal, led by Fauci’s longtime grantee Peter Daszak in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, expressly proposed searching for “potential furin cleavage sites” and inserting “appropriate human-specific cleavage sites” into SARS-related viruses before testing their growth in human airway cells. Fauci’s diary records that by Jan. 31, 2020, approximately half of the scientists involved in early discussions believed the virus looked “constructed,” with the furin cleavage site at the center of their concerns.
With his Deep State connections, Fauci used the intelligence community, media, and political officeholders to influence the narrative, presenting scientists associated with the natural-origin narrative as authoritative advisers. He presented himself as a detached scientific observer while privately participating in the national-security process to shape the government’s conclusions.
Fauci’s diary reveals how one driving force was his own hubris and desire for glory and recognition. He bathed in the limelight, giddy about the worship he received. His desire for recognition appears in newly released emails showing Fauci repeatedly soliciting scientists with longstanding financial relationships with NIAID to nominate him for prestigious and potentially lucrative awards, while Fauci and his taxpayer-funded staff supplied and helped prepare nomination materials. Federal ethics rules prohibit government employees from using public office for private gain or using their position to induce others to provide financial benefits. NIH rules also require advance written ethics approval before any employee can accept an outside award.
During the COVID scamdemic, churches were threatened for meeting and schools were shut down, but Fauci insisted he “had nothing to do with” closing schools and had not recommended locking anything down. However, Fauci’s March 15, 2020 diary entry records he spoke directly with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to convince him to close the city’s schools, urging him to close its bars and restaurants. He had a similar call with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff, who told Fauci that the doctor’s television appearances had prompted the governor to close schools, bars, and restaurants across California. Fauci publicly expressed support for aggressive national restrictions, including a possible 14-day shutdown, while New York City’s schools closed that same day using his “follow the science” mantra to evade admitting any wrongdoing.
According to his diary, Fauci publicly lied about the virus’s fatality rate, telling the public it was 2-2.5 percent while privately recording it was more like 0.2-0.3 percent. People died in hospitals as a result of Remdesivir and ventilators while being denied access to proven medications like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin; all because President Trump said those medications worked for him, and the goal was to use the disease to destroy Trump.
As Dr. Anthony Fauci’s diary entries reveal his fixation on his newfound celebrity and how he lied and deceived the public and any political opposition, leftist mainstream and legacy media outlets refuse to report it. Fauci’s diary entries, released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-KY), are now the focus of Fauci’s recent congressional hearing, during which the good doctor refused to answer questions by invoking the Fifth Amendment “right to remain silent” 111 times. From the media? Not a peep.
Fauci wrote in his diary about making sure the press was complicit, which makes their silence even more troubling. He wrote that CNN anchor Jake Tapper privately checked to make sure a canceled CNN interview hadn’t caused problems with the White House. When The Atlantic’s Peter Nicholas suggested Fauci had been “humiliated” over the canceled interview, Fauci fired back in his diary with an F-Bomb. In April 2021, Fauci had a heated exchange with GOP Ohio representative Jim Jordan, and in his diary he indicated CNN’s Dana Bash texted him, calling Fauci the “better man” and relaying that fellow CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer had joked no one would have blamed Fauci if he had used the same F-Bomb on Jordan.
While talkative in his diary, Fauci now has nothing to say. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) made Fauci look ridiculous with his use of the Fifth Amendment, walking him through a series of innocuous questions during which Fauci invoked the Fifth for each one – including what color his tie was and what color the carpet on the floor was. The problem is that the Fifth Amendment is designed to secure the right not to self-incriminate, and since Fauci received a pardon from President Biden, there is no chance to self-incriminate. It’s gone. Therefore, Fauci’s opportunity to use the Fifth is legally nullified, making his refusal to answer questions contempt of Congress and obstruction.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, April 28, 2026 (after a federal grand jury indictment on April 16, 2026) Dr. David M. Morens, a top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci, was arrested and charged with conspiracy and destruction of federal records. The charges, brought by the FBI, Justice Department, and the U.S. Health and Human Services inspector general, allege the former senior scientific advisor at the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which Fauci led for 38 years, committed conspiracy against the United States; destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations; concealment, removal or mutilation of records; and aiding and abetting.
Morens served as a senior advisor in NIAID’s Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022, the year Fauci retired.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said: “These allegations represent a profound abuse of trust at a time when the American people needed it most – during the height of a global pandemic. As alleged in the indictment, Dr. Morens and his co-conspirators deliberately concealed information and falsified records in an effort to suppress alternative theories regarding the origins of COVID-19. Government officials have a solemn duty to provide honest, well-grounded facts and advice in service of the public interest – not to advance their own personal or ideological agendas.”
FBI Director Kash Patel stated: “Circumventing records protocols with the intention of avoiding transparency is something that will not be tolerated by this agency. Not only did Morens allegedly engage in the illegal obfuscation of his communications, but he received kickbacks for doing so. If you have engaged in activity conspiring against the United States, we will not stop until you face justice.”
Fauci and his associates created the pandemic, lied about it, and did so to target Donald Trump’s presidency. They tried to cover up their activities, and now they are being investigated. We have whistleblowers confirming they lied. It started in Wuhan, with Fauci’s hands deep inside the operation. They never found an animal that transmitted the disease to a human. There is no evidence supporting the natural origin argument. It came out of the lab. And they knew eventually some of this might rise to the surface, so in a panic, Biden pardoned Fauci because he knew they were culpable. Now, Fauci knows he can’t lie, so he’s refusing to say anything. Fauci did so much damage. He knew wearing a mask is pointless when it comes to viruses. He knew the vaccine not only didn’t stop someone from getting COVID but that the dangers of the vaccine were far worse than the disease it claimed to prevent. From what I see, the shot was causing the infections. People got COVID after vaccination. People who didn’t get vaccinated largely did not come down with the disease. As I stated earlier, my sister-in-law and mother-in-law got the shots and boosters and contracted COVID three times. My wife and I, vaccine-free, never got it.
After this is all over, I don’t know what the ultimate result will be. I don’t know if there will be the legal satisfaction we’re seeking. I don’t know if everyone will discover that the whole thing was a lie from day one. The reality, however, is that there’s an avalanche of documents shedding light on the truth, and Senator Rand Paul has them. Though Fauci refuses to say anything, he said everything we need to know in his diary. Fauci and his inner circle said different things publicly and privately. They gave the public one impression while knowing something entirely different was true. They made up the mask and distancing mandates out of thin air. They unnecessarily shut down the country and ruined lives in the process. They steered the press, scientific community, and U.S. intelligence community to spread their lies, even though the handpicked clique of virologists assisting to spread the lie expressed private doubts about their public assertions. A leak of a 2018 U.S.-China grant proposal posed as a blueprint for COVID. It had been in their plans all along. The scamdemic was created, birthed, coordinated, and orchestrated against the world, making the perpetrators guilty of crimes against humanity. A lab was modifying viruses, engineering viruses, manufacturing viruses, and unleashing them on mankind.
During the hearing, Senator Josh Hawley said that Fauci wanted to think of himself as the “most famous scientist in the world… You’ve done more to harm science than anybody in my lifetime. And I hope you’ll go home and write that in your diary.”
We must not forget the lies by the Biden administration, the Deep State, or Anthony Fauci. We must not forget the lies the media pushed on us. The media lied about Biden’s mental health and about Fauci and COVID. They told us to believe the “experts” for the sake of keeping Democrats in power because in the end, that is what all of this is about: power. They have no principles other than power. They have no foundational beliefs other than power. The ends justify the means to these people. They want power, and Donald Trump, the Constitution, and the American People are in their way, so to get their power, they are willing to lie, destroy, and even kill.
And that, my friends, is true tyranny.
— Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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