@kpellet10@redsteeze@FettermanStaff dude he's a high profile politician that openly puts another country before America. he brings on the negative attention. "If you can't take the heat ... "
NEW: The Maria Bartiromo backstory, per multiple sources familiar....
Maria Bartiromo wanted to pursue a story related to China and 2020 election voting conspiracies... a major sensitivity for the network given its Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits.
A Fox Business executive sent a text to Fox Business producers informing them that that story could not go to air.
Bartiromo took a screen shot of the guidance and sent it to senior White House officials.
Fox News leadership learned about that after receiving a call from the White House, which they viewed as a fireable offense.
Fox pulled Bartiromo from air after Aug. 9. She was fired today. I have also learned that her executive producer Patrick Ignozzi was also fired after the annoucnement.
Maria had resigned her contract with Fox last February.
More in tomorrow's edition of IN THE ROOM @PuckNews
BREAKING: Fox News reportedly FIRED Maria Bartiromo after she leaked confidential internal messages to the Trump White House.
According to Status, Fox executives had instructed staff not to amplify Trump’s latest debunked 2020 election conspiracy theories. Bartiromo allegedly forwarded that guidance directly to the White House—violating her employment agreement.
She apparently viewed herself as a Trump informant first and a journalist second.