Trump shares Fauci diary headline about US Ebola aerosol experiment

Donald Trump shared a Just the News headline about Anthony Fauci and an aerosolised Ebola experiment on Truth Social on 28 September 2026. His post repeated the headline, including the words ‘Never should have been done’, and linked to the report published the previous day. Those words came from a diary entry attributed to Fauci, rather than a separate statement by Trump. [1] [2] [3]

An internal overview emailed to Fauci in March 2016 describes a 2015 study at a US Army research institute. Researchers compared four vaccines in non-human primates exposed to aerosolised Ebola Zaire, examining the effects on their lungs. The overview says Fauci’s agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, helped design and funded the study. [3]

In the diary passage, Fauci wrote: ‘This should have been a classified experiment that never should have been done in the first place.’ He argued that publishing such work could reveal a vulnerability, while also calling it important for biodefence. Discussing the aerosol experiments, his notes say vaccinated animals showed more inflammation than unvaccinated animals and that almost all those exposed to the aerosol died. He considered the experiments of little relevance to naturally occurring Ebola outbreaks. [2] [3]

On classification, agency official Michael Kurilla wrote in a March 2016 email to Fauci that it had never been considered. He also said the disease-transmission dynamics differed fundamentally from those in public-health outbreaks. Fauci’s notes acknowledged that earlier experiments had been published. [3]