Those who remember Maria Bartiromo as a fast-paced and respected business reporter who even inspired Joey Ramone to write a song about her on his first solo album were disappointed when Donald Trump became president.
Bartiromo spent over 12 years as one of Fox News’ most loyal supporters of Trump.
Her loyalty was so strong that she ended up leaking confidential messages from her own network to the White House, which led to her losing her job.
Fox News announced Bartiromo’s sudden firing with a simple statement that gave no details.
However, according to Status News, the real reason goes back to July, after Trump gave a major speech promoting false claims about the 2020 election.
Fox executives, who had grown tired of spreading untrue and crazy ideas, wrote internal instructions to their top staff to not give Trump’s statements any credibility on air.
This decision might have been influenced by the $757 million penalty Fox had to pay to Dominion Voting Systems after their false claims in the wake of the 2020 election.
The next day, Fox’s coverage skipped Trump’s speech, which caught the attention of media watchers and the White House.
It seems Bartiromo told the White House why: that Fox bosses had ordered the network to downplay Trump’s claims.
She even shared the actual text message with White House officials.
This decision came back to haunt her.
One of Fox’s top anchors reportedly gave away her employer’s private messages to a sitting president because that president couldn’t handle not getting his message amplified for just one news cycle.
This shows what happens when loyalty to a person becomes more important than journalistic integrity.
Even Fox News, which has been a major part of Trump’s media support, had its limits.Bartiromo crossed that line, choosing Trump over her employer’s rules.
The irony is almost perfect: a network known for spreading conspiracy theories and loyal support for Trump finally took a stand against an employee not for spreading false information, but for being overly loyal to protecting Trump’s feelings, even at the cost of her company’s internal rules.
When Fox News itself can’t take your level of Trump worship, that says a lot.
Given the loyalty Bartiromo showed to Trump, it’s not surprising to see her get a big new job in the Trump administration or one of his businesses soon.
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Marie ,is a threat to the USA democracy. the more of these communists get caught and fired the Better the USA is without these people.