FBI Director Kash Patel announces Covid breakthrough after seizing Anthony Fauci’s phones and hard drives
FBI Director Kash Patel announces Covid breakthrough after seizing Anthony Fauci’s phones and hard drives
By EMILY JOSHU STERNE, SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
Published: 15:54 EDT, 6 June 2025 | Updated: 17:23 EDT, 6 June 2025
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The Trump administration has recovered a cell phone and hard drives used by Dr Anthony Fauci during the Covid pandemic, the president’s FBI chief has revealed.
Speaking Thursday on the Joe Rogan Experience, FBI director Kash Patel described the discovery as ‘a great breakthrough’ in the government’s ongoing investigation into the origins of the pandemic and the federal response.
Patel said investigators had long struggled to locate the devices Fauci used while serving as chief medical advisor to the White House — records that could shed light on key decisions surrounding lockdowns, mask mandates, and ties between Fauci’s former agency and the Wuhan laboratory central to the lab leak theory.
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During the episode — where Patel shared a cigar with Rogan and touched on topics ranging from Covid to UFOs — he revealed that the FBI had recovered the phone and hard drives just days before the interview was recorded.
Patel did not clarify when the phone was in use, how investigators verified its connection to Fauci, or how the devices were obtained. Nor did he disclose what the FBI’s ‘multiple investigations’ into the pandemic’s origin have uncovered so far.
It is unclear exactly when the phone was used and how they verified it belonged to Fauci. Patel did not specify how they seized it or what the team’s ‘multiple investigations’ thus far on the origins of Covid have found.
He also warned against drawing premature conclusions, noting that ‘everything’s not necessarily in there’ and that potentially relevant data may have been erased.
Still, Patel called the discovery ‘a victory for the American people’ and said his team is actively reviewing the contents of the devices.
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FBI director Kash Patel is pictured on the Joe Rogan Experience. He claims the FBI has ‘found’ one of Dr Anthony Fauci’s Covid-era phones
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Fauci is pictured here taking a call on Capitol Hill in 2020. It’s unclear if this is the exact device that was seized
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Patel said: ‘We found it [the devices], and at least we can tell the American people we’ve been looking because it is of public importance to figure out, did that guy lie?
‘Did he intentionally mislead the world and cause countless deaths?
‘We owe those answers to the American people, and the best evidence ever is always the people’s evidence who created it. So now we’re going to go and exploit those hard drives.’
‘We did find it [the cell phone], we’re not done, we’re still looking and we’re on the case.’https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/html_modules/Annie/tests/240905-healthsubheading-finalversion/index.html
Patel did not specify how his team got the old phone or how they verified it was Fauci’s. Generally, a warrant is required to seize a cell phone, even for a government official.
There are no publicly available warrants out against Fauci currently.
The FBI and CIA have both asserted they think Covid most likely originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, which was conducting risky experiments on coronaviruses in the years leading up to the pandemic.
Some of those experiments were funded by US taxpayer money through grants awarded by Dr Fauci’s old department, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
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During the episode Patel shared a cigar with Rogan and touched on topics ranging from Covid to UFOs
