Robert F. Kennedy III, son of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has released a novel satirizing Anthony Fauci, the physician who helped lead America’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
On Tuesday, Skyhorse published The Confessions of Anthony Fauci, a “fictional memoir” written by Kennedy III, a filmmaker and actor. The book, according to the press, purports to be “Fauci's unfiltered admissions following a preemptive pardon by President Biden on January 20, 2025.” (Biden did issue a preemptive pardon to Fauci, but on Jan. 19, 2025.)
Fauci was a member of President Donald Trump’s White House Coronavirus Task Force; his advice to the public about masking and other mitigation factors was frequently contradicted by Trump. Fauci became chief medical advisor to the president after Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021. He has long been a target of Trump supporters, who accuse him of attempting to undermine Trump.
One of Fauci’s chief critics was Robert Kennedy Jr., who wrote a 2021 book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. The book is one of several that Kennedy Jr. has published with Skyhorse.
The Confessions of Anthony Fauci is published by a Skyhorse imprint called MAHA Books, named after Kennedy Jr. and Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement, which advocates for dietary changes in Americans and falsely claims that vaccines cause autism. Skyhorse says of Kennedy III’s book, “Names will be named. Timelines clarified. His fingerprints will be all over it—figuratively, of course. And maybe literally.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
