For years, this argument has run in a maddening loop: does Anthony Fauci know more than he's telling us? Did he understand the risks he wasn't disclosing? Did he actually believe the certainty he projected on our television screens night after night? We asked. We speculated. We demanded accountability, which was never his strong suit, and mostly we got silence, spin, or a lecture about trusting the science.

This week, the loop broke. We don't have to wonder anymore. Now we know.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) released the first tranche of texts recovered from Fauci's old government iPhone, and buried in a January 2021 exchange between Fauci, then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and Dr. Vivek Murthy is a sentence that should end any remaining debate about what Fauci actually understood at the time. "Since many people have significant cytokines storm and fever after the 2nd dose," Fauci wrote, "this theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester." Privately, in writing, to two of the most powerful health officials in the country, Fauci flagged a specific, plausible mechanism by which the vaccine he was publicly urging on every American, including pregnant women, could end a pregnancy in its earliest and most vulnerable........

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