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While publicly urging Americans to avoid family gatherings and maintain \u201csocial distance,\u201d Dr. Anthony Fauci was also busy behind the scenes cultivating a chummy friendship with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.<\/p>\n

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Fauci\u2019s meetings and family dinners with the longtime CNN personality were revealed in a series of made public on Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who uncovered them during his lengthy and thorough investigation into Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

The former White House chief medical adviser thoroughly documented his actions throughout the pandemic \u2014 with a heavy focus on his own media appearances and coverage, particularly when it was overly flattering \u2014 and referenced an interview with Tapper that took place on April 13, 2020. During that interview, Fauci conceded that Tapper had asked tough \u2014 but reasonable \u2014 questions, and then had called him directly afterward to make sure that the interview had not caused him \u201cany problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPotential big problem (we shall see). NY Times<\/i> reporting on an answer to a question that I gave on CNN yesterday (see above). Jake Tapper asked me if we had closed down earlier, whould (sic) that have saved lives. I said it is complicated; he persisted and I said obviously, if you close earlier there would have been lives saved, but the decision was complicated,\u201d Fauci wrote. \u201cI could have answered the question better and with more clarity, but the Times is now saying that I was implying that the POTUS was to blame for additional deaths according to me. The far right is tweeting to fire me. The POTUS even re-tweeted the tweet that said to fire me. We shall see how the day goes \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Fauci said that he later met with President Donald Trump, who said that he did not have an issue and business continued as usual.<\/p>\n

Of the press briefing that followed, he said, \u201cI went out and explained that I was being hoest (sic) in my answer to Jake, but that I was not implying that anyone was responsible for more deaths \u2026 Phone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later that month, Tapper spoke with Fauci about an interview he\u2019d done with Coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx. Of that exchange, Fauci wrote, \u201cI was not on Sunday shows. Deb was on CNN with Jake Tapper and did not answer the question of whether it was a mistake for the POTUS to talk about injecting or swallowing bleach. Jake wrote me a text afterwards and said: \u201cBirx has lost her way I fear. She has chosen to focus on defending the president and attacking the press. Odd.\u201d<\/p>\n

On May 4, 2020, Fauci referenced a CNN interview in which Tapper had been hard on the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cinadequate\u201d response to the pandemic \u2014 but had spared him the ire reserved for the president: \u201cJake Tapper did a segment last night on the inadequate response of the Trump administration to the pandemic. I came out relatively well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later that month, when Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, tested positive, and Fauci was directly exposed to SARS-CoV-2, he got a call from Tapper making sure that he was all right.<\/p>\n

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\u201cJake Tapper called me and asked whether I was going inot (sic) quarantine. I explained to Jake that I would do a \u201cmodified quarantine\u201d since I was a low risk exposure to Kstie (sic). Thid merans (sic) that I will get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing. I tested negative yesterday and will get tested every day for 14 days and then 1 time per week,\u201d he wrote, adding in a subsequent entry that Marc Short was not taking enough precautions.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarc Short (whom I resally (sic) like) practically sits on Katie\u2019s lap and he is vey (sic) close to the VP. Yet he is not even wearing a mask. He actually should be self-quarantining. He was at a much greater risk than I.\u201d<\/p>\n

On July 1, Fauci mentioned a dinner with Tapper and his wife: \u201cHad dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper\u2019s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building.\u201d<\/p>\n

By late July, Fauci was feeding questions to Tapper ahead of interviews with other officials: \u201cBrett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullsh*t about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Tapper was calling Fauci to complain about President Trump: \u201cJake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius (sic) at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly (sic) questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In later entries \u2014 into the fall of 2020, as Americans were preparing to host holiday dinners via Zoom \u2014 Fauci mentioned another dinner at the Tapper home: \u201cHad dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tapper texts Fauci to attack Laura Ingraham and defend the integrity of Dartmouth pic.twitter.com\/pLW5c1zuja<\/p>\n

\u2014 Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) July 26, 2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In a later exchange, after Fauci appeared on Fox News with host Laura Ingraham, Tapper texted to mock Ingraham, saying it was a shock that she\u2019d graduated from Dartmouth.<\/p>\n

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While publicly urging Americans to avoid family gatherings and maintain \u201csocial distance,\u201d Dr. Anthony Fauci was also busy behind the scenes cultivating a chummy friendship with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.Fauci\u2019s meetings and family dinners with the longtime CNN personality were revealed in a series of diary entries made public on Saturday by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who uncovered them during his lengthy and thorough investigation into Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.The former White House chief medical adviser thoroughly documented his actions throughout the pandemic \u2014 with a heavy focus on his own media appearances and coverage, particularly when it was overly flattering \u2014 and referenced an interview with Tapper that took place on April 13, 2020. During that interview, Fauci conceded that Tapper had asked tough \u2014 but reasonable \u2014 questions, and then had called him directly afterward to make sure that the interview had not caused him \u201cany problems.\u201d\u201cPotential big problem (we shall see). NY Times reporting on an answer to a question that I gave on CNN yesterday (see above). Jake Tapper asked me if we had closed down earlier, whould (sic) that have saved lives. I said it is complicated; he persisted and I said obviously, if you close earlier there would have been lives saved, but the decision was complicated,\u201d Fauci wrote. \u201cI could have answered the question better and with more clarity, but the Times is now saying that I was implying that the POTUS was to blame for additional deaths according to me. The far right is tweeting to fire me. The POTUS even re-tweeted the tweet that said to fire me. We shall see how the day goes \u2026\u201dFauci said that he later met with President Donald Trump, who said that he did not have an issue and business continued as usual.Of the press briefing that followed, he said, \u201cI went out and explained that I was being hoest (sic) in my answer to Jake, but that I was not implying that anyone was responsible for more deaths \u2026 Phone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.\u201dLater that month, Tapper spoke with Fauci about an interview he\u2019d done with Coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx. Of that exchange, Fauci wrote, \u201cI was not on Sunday shows. Deb was on CNN with Jake Tapper and did not answer the question of whether it was a mistake for the POTUS to talk about injecting or swallowing bleach. Jake wrote me a text afterwards and said: \u201cBirx has lost her way I fear. She has chosen to focus on defending the president and attacking the press. Odd.\u201dOn May 4, 2020, Fauci referenced a CNN interview in which Tapper had been hard on the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cinadequate\u201d response to the pandemic \u2014 but had spared him the ire reserved for the president: \u201cJake Tapper did a segment last night on the inadequate response of the Trump administration to the pandemic. I came out relatively well.\u201dLater that month, when Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, tested positive, and Fauci was directly exposed to SARS-CoV-2, he got a call from Tapper making sure that he was all right.\u201cJake Tapper called me and asked whether I was going inot (sic) quarantine. I explained to Jake that I would do a \u201cmodified quarantine\u201d since I was a low risk exposure to Kstie (sic). Thid merans (sic) that I will get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing. I tested negative yesterday and will get tested every day for 14 days and then 1 time per week,\u201d he wrote, adding in a subsequent entry that Marc Short was not taking enough precautions.\u201cMarc Short (whom I resally (sic) like) practically sits on Katie\u2019s lap and he is vey (sic) close to the VP. Yet he is not even wearing a mask. He actually should be self-quarantining. He was at a much greater risk than I.\u201dOn July 1, Fauci mentioned a dinner with Tapper and his wife: \u201cHad dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper\u2019s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building.\u201dBy late July, Fauci was feeding questions to Tapper ahead of interviews with other officials: \u201cBrett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullsh*t about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.\u201dAnd Tapper was calling Fauci to complain about President Trump: \u201cJake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius (sic) at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly (sic) questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all.\u201dIn later entries \u2014 into the fall of 2020, as Americans were preparing to host holiday dinners via Zoom \u2014 Fauci mentioned another dinner at the Tapper home: \u201cHad dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. Jake clearly believes that Trump is totally nuts.\u201dTapper texts Fauci to attack Laura Ingraham and defend the integrity of Dartmouth pic.twitter.com\/pLW5c1zuja\u2014 Emily Jashinsky (@emilyjashinsky) July 26, 2026In a later exchange, after Fauci appeared on Fox News with host Laura Ingraham, Tapper texted to mock Ingraham, saying it was a shock that she\u2019d graduated from Dartmouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"\nInside Fauci\u2019s Behind-The-Scenes Bromance With Jake Tapper - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=1712\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside Fauci\u2019s Behind-The-Scenes Bromance With Jake Tapper - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While publicly urging Americans to avoid family gatherings and maintain \u201csocial distance,\u201d Dr. Anthony Fauci was also busy behind the scenes cultivating a chummy friendship with CNN anchor Jake Tapper.Fauci\u2019s meetings and family dinners with the longtime CNN personality were revealed in a series of diary entries made public on Saturday by Sen. 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Rand Paul (R-KY), who uncovered them during his lengthy and thorough investigation into Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.The former White House chief medical adviser thoroughly documented his actions throughout the pandemic \u2014 with a heavy focus on his own media appearances and coverage, particularly when it was overly flattering \u2014 and referenced an interview with Tapper that took place on April 13, 2020. During that interview, Fauci conceded that Tapper had asked tough \u2014 but reasonable \u2014 questions, and then had called him directly afterward to make sure that the interview had not caused him \u201cany problems.\u201d\u201cPotential big problem (we shall see). NY Times reporting on an answer to a question that I gave on CNN yesterday (see above). Jake Tapper asked me if we had closed down earlier, whould (sic) that have saved lives. I said it is complicated; he persisted and I said obviously, if you close earlier there would have been lives saved, but the decision was complicated,\u201d Fauci wrote. \u201cI could have answered the question better and with more clarity, but the Times is now saying that I was implying that the POTUS was to blame for additional deaths according to me. The far right is tweeting to fire me. The POTUS even re-tweeted the tweet that said to fire me. We shall see how the day goes \u2026\u201dFauci said that he later met with President Donald Trump, who said that he did not have an issue and business continued as usual.Of the press briefing that followed, he said, \u201cI went out and explained that I was being hoest (sic) in my answer to Jake, but that I was not implying that anyone was responsible for more deaths \u2026 Phone call with Jake Tapper. Jake wanted to make sure the interview did not cause me any problems.\u201dLater that month, Tapper spoke with Fauci about an interview he\u2019d done with Coronavirus coordinator Deborah Birx. Of that exchange, Fauci wrote, \u201cI was not on Sunday shows. Deb was on CNN with Jake Tapper and did not answer the question of whether it was a mistake for the POTUS to talk about injecting or swallowing bleach. Jake wrote me a text afterwards and said: \u201cBirx has lost her way I fear. She has chosen to focus on defending the president and attacking the press. Odd.\u201dOn May 4, 2020, Fauci referenced a CNN interview in which Tapper had been hard on the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cinadequate\u201d response to the pandemic \u2014 but had spared him the ire reserved for the president: \u201cJake Tapper did a segment last night on the inadequate response of the Trump administration to the pandemic. I came out relatively well.\u201dLater that month, when Katie Miller, a spokesperson for Vice President Mike Pence, tested positive, and Fauci was directly exposed to SARS-CoV-2, he got a call from Tapper making sure that he was all right.\u201cJake Tapper called me and asked whether I was going inot (sic) quarantine. I explained to Jake that I would do a \u201cmodified quarantine\u201d since I was a low risk exposure to Kstie (sic). Thid merans (sic) that I will get tested every day, would wear a mask ontinually (sic), and would spend most of my time either alone in my home office or alone in my NIH office and would go to White House or Congress with precautions of universal mask wearing and phycial (sic) distancing. I tested negative yesterday and will get tested every day for 14 days and then 1 time per week,\u201d he wrote, adding in a subsequent entry that Marc Short was not taking enough precautions.\u201cMarc Short (whom I resally (sic) like) practically sits on Katie\u2019s lap and he is vey (sic) close to the VP. Yet he is not even wearing a mask. He actually should be self-quarantining. He was at a much greater risk than I.\u201dOn July 1, Fauci mentioned a dinner with Tapper and his wife: \u201cHad dinner over Jake Tapper and Jen Tapper\u2019s home in DC. Terrific couple. Friendship building.\u201dBy late July, Fauci was feeding questions to Tapper ahead of interviews with other officials: \u201cBrett Giroir on Tapper (State of the Union) talking bullsh*t about testing with Jake pressing him. I gave Jake some questions to ask him.\u201dAnd Tapper was calling Fauci to complain about President Trump: \u201cJake Tapper woke me up at 11:23 AM (I went to bed early) furius (sic) at POTUS for tweeting about the fact that Jake severly (sic) questioned Brett Giroir on SOTU CNN show today. Jake was really pissed at the craziness of it all.\u201dIn later entries \u2014 into the fall of 2020, as Americans were preparing to host holiday dinners via Zoom \u2014 Fauci mentioned another dinner at the Tapper home: \u201cHad dinner at my home with Jake and Jennifer Tapper. Relaxed, good time. 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