Senator Ron Johnson revealed additional evidence Sunday from the Senate investigation into Dr. Anthony Fauci, including a newly released text message and email tied to concerns about vaccine safety.
The Wisconsin Republican discussed the documents during an appearance on “Sunday Morning Futures” with guest host Jackie DeAngelis.
The latest disclosures arrived as Johnson and Senator Rand Paul continue reviewing records from Fauci’s phone and diary.
Johnson said investigators received the phone only a week earlier, leaving senators with a considerable amount of material still to examine.
Johnson previously warned Fauci after the former federal health official refused to participate in a private transcribed interview.
Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, according to the senator, raising even more questions about what the longtime face of the federal Covid response does not want to discuss.
Johnson and Paul released an initial batch of messages from Fauci’s Covid era iPhone last Monday.
The senators said those records showed Fauci privately received information about miscarriages involving women vaccinated during the first trimester, even while federal officials publicly insisted there were no meaningful safety signals.
The latest material includes a January 25, 2021, message from Dr. John Mascola, who was then director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Mascola sent the message directly to Fauci.
“I am corrected on pregnancy studies. Initial Studies avoid vaccination in first trimester due to possible fever and higher rates of miscarriage in first trimester[.]”
That message appears to acknowledge specific concerns surrounding vaccination early in pregnancy.
Johnson now wants Mascola to answer questions directly rather than allowing another troubling federal record to disappear into Washington’s usual fog of excuses.
“I am hoping Dr. Mascola will fully cooperate by talking to us and clarifying what this text means,” Ron Johnson said.
MORE NEWS: Today, @SenRandPaul and I released additional context to Dr. Fauci’s message to Drs. Vivek Murthy and Rochelle Walensky expressing concerns about mRNA COVID shots “theoretically” resulting in “miscarriage in the 1st trimester.”
On January 25, 2021, Dr. John Mascola,… pic.twitter.com/HWoRQUVaKs
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 16, 2026
Johnson also released an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock concerning patients who reported difficult to classify adverse events.
According to Johnson, Woodcock told Fauci that sufferers were being ignored while doctors lacked both useful guidance and a serious research effort.
“no one takes them seriously, no one knows how to treat them, and there is no effort to study this.”
Johnson said Fauci appeared hesitant to engage with Woodcock’s warning but apparently concluded that he could not simply disregard her.
THERE’S MORE: In addition to the texts, @SenRandPaul and I released an email from Dr. Janet Woodcock from May 2021.
Dr. Woodcock emailed Dr. Fauci about personally receiving reports of patients experiencing hard to classify adverse events: “no one takes them seriously, no one… pic.twitter.com/sVG4zrNWtB
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) August 16, 2026
That reluctance is likely to fuel more scrutiny of how Fauci and other officials handled information that did not fit the government’s preferred public narrative.
During the television interview, DeAngelis asked what would happen after Fauci declined Johnson’s request to appear voluntarily.
Johnson said the Senate was reviewing its available options while investigators continued working through the recently obtained documents.
“We are looking at our options as well, but what we are gonna continue to do is go through the documents we just received. Understand, we only got his phone a week ago. We got his diary a couple weeks ago,” Johnson said.
Johnson accused federal officials of failing at their basic responsibility to identify safety concerns and communicate them to physicians and the public.
In his telling, the bureaucracy did not merely miss isolated warning signs, it repeatedly buried inconvenient information while assuring Americans that everything was fine.
“They didn’t do their job. They didn’t take their responsibilities seriously, looking for safety signals and then passing those safety signals along to doctors, practitioners, and the public,” Johnson continued.
The senator said government officials repeatedly claimed there were no red flags and no safety signals.
He argued that Americans were denied information they needed to make personal decisions about potential risks and benefits, while mandates and official pressure continued across the country.
“They lied through their teeth to the American public, and I can’t tell you how many people died or were permanently disabled because they didn’t have that information to make the decision themselves in terms of risk benefit,” Johnson explained.
DeAngelis noted that officials presented their guidance with sweeping certainty and demanded compliance from the public.
She questioned why Fauci could not have shared the concerns reflected in the messages and emails so Americans could decide for themselves.
Johnson then turned his fire toward the press corps that spent years treating Fauci like an untouchable celebrity rather than a powerful official deserving scrutiny.
“The other question they ought to ask is why is the legacy media continuing to cover up and apologize for Anthony Fauci?” Johnson asked.
The senator also accused Fauci of being consumed with his public image, influence, and personal recognition during the pandemic.
“He’s a megalomaniacal narcissist and that’s all he was really concerned about. I mean, asking his employees to apply for awards that put over a million dollars in his pocket as he was using that power and control to scaremongering, to shut down our economy, to destroy people’s lives, to destroy people’s businesses,” Johnson said.
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With more phone records and diary entries still under review, Johnson’s investigation appears far from finished.
Each new disclosure adds pressure for direct answers from Fauci and the officials who helped shape pandemic policy while the establishment media cheered from the sidelines.
