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Katie Miller downplays former close friendship with Dr. Fauci.

Katie Miller downplays former close friendship with Dr. Fauci.
Stephen Miller and Katie Miller attend the 2025 Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025. Photo: Samuel Corum/Sipa USA

Katie Miller, a conservative podcaster and wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller, is trying to distance herself from Dr. Anthony Fauci as she joins several right-wing figures calling for his imprisonment over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic following the release of Fauci’s diary.

“The most disturbing part of Fauci’s diary — is what he decided to memorialize versus what he kept out of his diary,” she wrote in a post on Twitter. “It’s almost like he knew this diary would one day become public. He wanted to cast himself as the hero, as famous, as the savior.”

But the same diary Miller celebrated for outing Dr. Fauci as a calculating attention-seeker revealed that she had a close relationship with him during the height of the COVID pandemic.

In entries dated to 2020, Fauci’s diary suggests he had a close relationship with Miller, who was Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director at the time, according to NOTUS. Fauci wrote that he gave the Millers medical advice when Katie tested positive for COVID-19 while pregnant in 2020, when Stephen Miller tested positive, and when their newborn child experienced a medical episode later that year.

“I am calling katie frequently to check on her couple time per day. She is very anxious about getting very ill since she is 10 weeks pregnant. Tonight she had an anxiety reaction. I calmed her over the phone,” Fauci wrote in a May 9, 2020, entry.

Fauci also wrote about contacting the Millers’ pediatrician to discuss their child’s medical care. These are just two of the several entries about the Millers in Fauci’s diary. NOTUS reported that several entries detailing the Millers’ cozy relationship with Fauci were redacted.

In a statement to the outlet, Miller sought to downplay her relationship with Fauci.

“He was not my doctor. He was not my friend. He was a work colleague who called me for work purposes, and in the course of a phone call, you would discuss other things,” she said.

Miller added that she found Fauci to be “incredibly self-centered and sought to promote himself above the good of the people” and gave him the impression that they were close he “did not leak against me or my husband.”

“I understood who he was, and I understood how to manage somebody like him,” she said.