Rand Paul wanted the world to see a villain. Instead, he almost published proof that Fauci was Stephen Miller's doctor.

"I am calling katie frequently to check on her couple time per day. She is very anxious about getting very ill since she is 10 weeks pregnant. Tonight she had an anxiety reaction. I calmed her over the phone."

— Dr. Anthony Fauci, diary entry dated May 9, 2020

Senator Rand Paul released more than 1,000 pages of Anthony Fauci's personal diary on Saturday, July 25, with fanfare that matched the gravity of the moment: the most prominent American doctor of a generation, finally exposed.

At least, that was the plan.

The initial document dump that Paul's office uploaded to his Senate website included dozens of unredacted entries showing Fauci's personal relationship with Katie Miller. The woman who now demands, on social media, that Fauci be thrown in prison. The wife of Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff who recently told Fox News that Trump "saved America from a great depression" during the very pandemic Fauci is accused of mishandling.

Fauci's diary paints a different picture of those days. One where he was checking in on Katie Miller multiple times per day because she was 10 weeks pregnant and terrified. Where he called her doctors directly to discuss her newborn child's medical care. Where he and Katie Miller would "laugh at each other in the Sit Room."

By Wednesday afternoon, those entries had been quietly scrubbed from the published document. A NOTUS analysis comparing the originally posted version with the redacted version found that Katie Miller's name appeared 56 times in the original document and only 37 times in the redacted version. Over a dozen references were erased.

The redactions do not appear to protect Fauci. They appear to protect the Millers.

The diary entries span the first two years of the pandemic. They cover Katie Miller's pregnancy, Stephen Miller contracting COVID, and the family's efforts to navigate medical care at the height of the crisis. Fauci, then 82, writes about speaking with Katie at the Houston airport after she traveled to Texas to be with her parents in October 2020. On New Year's Eve of that year, he wrote simply: "Am on phone frequently with katie and Stephen."

The March 25, 2020 entry is perhaps the most damning to the current narrative: "katie Miller is great (tough, smart, but great)."

Katie Miller was Vice President Mike Pence's communications director at the time. She was part of the White House COVID response apparatus. Fauci's diary depicts her as someone he worked closely with and trusted.

It is also the most embarrassing entry for Katie Miller's current persona. In 2025, she posted on X that Fauci "cared more about virtue signaling than science" from the "first day of the COVID task force." She has said he caused "decades of harm" to children. She has not vaccinated her youngest child.

But in 2020, when it actually mattered, she was on the phone with him multiple times a day.

Translation: the redactions were never about protecting Fauci's privacy. They were about sparing the Millers from the spectacle of their own documented hypocrisy.

The diary was turned over to Senate Republicans by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said he found the entries on government servers. Kennedy told Fox News that Fauci "prioritized getting TV over public health" after the release, a claim that seems to have been formed after a cursory skim of 1,000-plus pages.

Fauci testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on July 29, summoned by Paul himself. He invoked the Fifth Amendment throughout the hearing, refusing to answer questions. In his opening statement, Fauci, now 85, called Paul's behavior an "unhinged obsession" with putting him behind bars.

"Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this Committee is to get me to say something that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, 'behind bars,'" Fauci said.

Paul did not respond to requests for comment about the redactions. Katie Miller requested that NOTUS not disclose the details of her child's medical history, saying Paul's office published them without her knowledge or permission.

Miller has attempted to retroactively explain away the diary entries. She told NOTUS that Fauci "was not my doctor" and "was not my friend," describing him instead as "a work colleague who called me for work purposes, and in the course of a phone call, you would discuss other things."

She also said she deliberately gave Fauci the impression that she was friendly with him so that he "did not leak against me or my husband."

"I understood who he was, and I understood how to manage somebody like him," she said.

It is a remarkable admission: that she strategically managed the person who was calming her anxiety while she was pregnant and scared, the same person who spoke to her child's doctors on her behalf. She is essentially confirming that the diary entries show genuine care, but claiming she was manipulating the giver of that care all along.

The broader context of the diary release deserves attention. Fauci was initially hailed as a national hero during the pandemic. He became the face of the federal government's response. And then, as the political landscape shifted, he became the most vilified public health official in American history. The pivot was not driven by evidence. It was driven by politics.

Katie Miller, now a podcast host and former DOGE aide, has been at the forefront of the campaign against Fauci. She called for his preemptive pardon to be "trashed" and for him to be jailed, referencing former President Joe Biden's last-minute pardon in January 2025, which covered any offenses related to Fauci's service as NIAID director and White House task force member.

Stephen Miller echoed the attacks on Fox News, calling out "so-called healthcare government experts who sometimes have an agenda of their own" without naming Fauci directly, while praising Trump for fighting "those who wanted to shut down the schools, and shut down our way of life."

Both Millers spent the early months of the pandemic taking medical advice from the very person they now demand be prosecuted.

There is a simpler way to understand what happened. Paul released the diary expecting to find evidence of corruption, conspiracy, or malfeasance. What he found, at least regarding the Millers, was evidence of basic human decency from a doctor who was doing his job. Entries that showed Fauci calming an anxious pregnant woman, coordinating with pediatricians, and checking in on a colleague's family during a public health emergency.

So his staff redacted them. Not because they contained anything incriminating about Fauci. Because they contained something far worse for the people who wanted him in jail: proof that he was exactly the kind of person you want looking after your family when the world is on fire.

The diary was supposed to destroy Fauci. Instead, it almost destroyed the credibility of everyone who wanted it to.

The question is not whether the Millers changed their minds about Fauci over time. The question is why the diary was edited to pretend they never held those earlier views at all.

tags: fauci, rand paul, miller, pandemic