(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., announced Wednesday night that his Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has obtained a copy of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s iPhone from when he oversaw the federal government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Hopefully, this device will address many of the questions he refused to answer at last week’s hearing,” Johnson said on Twitter/X, referencing Fauci pleading the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times and declining to speak at last week’s Senate hearing—despite already having accepted a sweeping pardon from former President Joe Biden.
The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has obtained a copy of Dr. Fauci’s phone from HHS. Hopefully, this device will address many of the questions he refused to answer at last week’s hearing. https://t.co/ltaKmGaExL
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 5, 2026
According to the Wall Street Journal, the copy of the phone was transferred by the Department of Health and Human Services to Johnson’s subcommittee. The news that the subcommittee obtained the phone broke ahead of Thursday morning’s vote to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress for his refusal to answer questions at last week’s hearing. The vote to hold him in contempt passed 8-5.
Posting about Fauci’s phone after the contempt vote, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Thursday on Twitter/X that investigators have already found evidence of deleted records. Paul has since deleted that tweet.
The discovery of Fauci’s phone comes on the heels of the Senate Homeland Security Committee also releasing more than 1,000 pages of his personal diary covering the pandemic years.
Among the entries, Fauci acknowledged that the theory COVID-19 leaked from a Wuhan laboratory was plausible, despite publicly dismissing the theory as fringe during the pandemic.
“THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE ANSWERS”@SenRonJohnson says his investigation is entering a new phase with interviews of current and former federal officials. pic.twitter.com/g8nF7h8lrt
— The Faulkner Focus (@FaulknerFocus) August 6, 2026
The diary also undercut Fauci’s claims to the media that he had “nothing to do” with widespread school closures. In one entry, Fauci wrote that he “convinced” then-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to “close the NYC schools.” He added in the same entry that “he should close bars and restaurants in NYC.”
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