FBI Director Kash Patel reveals Covid discovery following seizure of Anthony Fauci’s electronic devices.

According to the president’s intelligence head, the Trump administration claims to have ‘discovered’ the mobile phone that Dr. Anthony Fauci utilized throughout the Covid crisis.

During the latest installment of the Joe Rogan Experience, FBI director Kash Patel disclosed that he and figures like Senator Rand Paul have been actively searching for any equipment used by Fauci while offering guidance to the American public amidst the pandemic.

Patel mentioned that although Paul and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy have been instrumental in uncovering the Covid origins, the team faced significant challenges over the years in locating Fauci’s phone and other gadgets.

But this week, the team ‘had a great breakthrough.’ 

Patel told Rogan the FBI had just found a phone Fauci used at the time, mere days before the podcast was filmed. 

It’s 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 cautioned Americans ‘shouldn’t jump to the conclusion that everything’s in there’ and that incriminating data could have been deleted. 

However, he called the bombshell ‘a victory for the American people’ and said his team is immediately working to comb through any data on the device. 

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

Fauci is pictured here taking a call on Capitol Hill in 2020. It’s unclear if this is the exact device that was seized

Patel said: ‘We found it, 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, we’re not done, we’re still looking and we’re on the case.’

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.  

Mounting evidence has suggested Covid may have originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, with some reports estimated up to 95 percent certainty 

The Chinese government has always denied the lab-leak theory and maintained Covid was the product of an animal spillover. 

American agencies like the FBI and CIA believe a lab leak is the most likely possibility. Patel did not say on the podcast what he thinks.  

Dr Richard Ebright, a professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University, previously told DailyMail.com: ‘The main points are clear: All informed persons – without exception – knew by early 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 likely entered humans through a research-related incident in Wuhan.

‘But most chose to lie or to stay silent.’

Chinese researcher Shi Zhengli, known as ‘bat woman’ for her work on coronaviruses in bats, is pictured in her lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2019

Fauci, pictured here making a phone call during a Senate hearing in 2022, has denied all allegations of covering up potential lab leak theories

In February 2020, just before the pandemic exploded in the US, Fauci joined a call with scientists who reportedly expressed concern that parts of the Covid virus seemed inconsistent with natural evolution. 

The next month, researchers released the paper ‘The Proximal Origin of Sars-Cov-2,’ which has been accused of trying to shut down lab leak theories. 

The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) carried out a secret investigation into the origins of Covid nicknamed Project Saaremaa during the pandemic, sharing the findings with the US in December 2024. 

Investigators found unpublished dissertations from 2019 and 2020 that allegedly discussed the effects of coronaviruses on the human body.

Additionally, uncovered materials revealed Chinese scientists had ‘an unusually large amount of knowledge about the supposedly novel virus available at an unusually early stage.’

Based on the materials BND agents found and analyzed, they used a ‘Probability Index’ to measure the reliability of information, which determined the lab-leak theory was ‘probable’ with an ’80 to 95 percent’ certainty.

Robert Redfield, former CDC director when the pandemic erupted, also accused American and British health agencies of shutting down concerns over potential lab leaks.  

Fauci has denied all accusations of Covid being ‘covered up’ or originating from a lab. In 2024, he told a US House panel that he had not suppressed lab leak theories or influenced research to discredit it. 

He has also called accusations that he covered it up ‘preposterous.’ 

Fauci has also been the subject of multiple controversies surrounding his handling of the pandemic.  

Patel said: ‘My mission has always been to put out the truth, whatever the consequences, whoever it’s against.