[UPDATE BELOW] In a rather terse statement [SEE HERE] Fox News has announced that Maria Bartiromo is no longer employed by the media network.
NEW YORK – September 3, 2026 — Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media.
In making the announcement, FOX News Media said, “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter.”
Maria Bartiromo became increasingly popular amid the MAGA base during the research and revelations surrounding the ‘Spygate’ and ‘Russiagate’ storyline. Bartiromo often had several guests on her Sunday Morning Futures program that highlighted evidence of the corruption in the DOJ, FBI and U.S Intelligence Community. However, it also became more visible that Bartiromo was navigating between sensitive topics that often ran counter to the professional republican class interests in Washington DC.
Over the past few years Bartiromo softened her focus toward corrupt endeavors and began staying away from the most controversial aspects of how the structures of government operate. In a time when nearly all U.S. institutional credibility has crumbled, Bartiromo found herself in that awkward spot where you try to act like you’re not noticing the moment in the show when the marionette strings become visible.
[…] “Bartiromo had fallen out of favor at Fox News due to the legal headaches caused by statements made on her programs. But the breaking point may have been her sharing of a company e-mail with President Trump, according to a person familiar with the matter. A Fox News representative did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Bartiromo, who was earning around $6 million a year, was anchor of the daily Fox Business Network program “Mornings with Maria,” which starting Friday will be called “Mornings with Fox Business.” Her weekend program “Sunday Morning Futures” will continue with fill-in hosts until a permanent replacement is named.” (source)
There is always that moment of choice, that time when your influence and affluence no longer run in alignment with uncomfortable truth. It’s a strange dynamic to watch unfold and even more strange when your proximity to the person gives you a different perspective than the average.
Bartiromo did as much as she could, until she couldn’t.
It will be interesting, or not, to see what comes next.
UPDATE: According to Dylan Byers:
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. (source)
I’m surprised she lasted as long as she did.
Next White House press secretary?
I hope not.
Ditto. After what we’ve enjoyed the past two years, Maria, God bless her, would be a dim bulb indeed.
Why? What have I missed? A daily bloodbath in the WH press room would make my day.
This whole post is a reminder that Maria is completely fine with sitting there and not saying anything. She wouldn’t make a good press secretary because she wouldn’t fight, just like she hasn’t fought the last several years on Fox. We need some new blood. Maria is great and she could only do so much, I hope she ends up somewhere her talents are appreciated and she can do more of what she wants to do, I doubt that is fighting with the news media everyday in the press room.
JD Vance today when asked about her departure from Fox: “Maria is a very good friend of mine”. I think you nailed it. She may be the perfect pick!
Maria made around $10 million annually working for FOX News.
WH press secretary pays peanuts. I don’t think Maria will work for peanuts, so you can forget your dream about Maria as WH press secretary.
Good.
Trump made $600 million annually working for himself and now works for zero, nada, nothing!
I have not watched Fox News since November 2020.
She was on Fox Business, which is a lot less “cringy” than Fox News.
I made the decision after they called AZ. Called to cancel the satellite service first thing the next morning.
Watching Fox News actually makes the viewer dumber, dangerous, and less informed. Fox news is purely establishment propaganda tailored to appeal to people that lean right.
It’s news for, primarily but not limited to, aged 55+ retarded republicans that vote and support the wrong way in republican primaries.
Exactly. Same here.
They always show you who they are!
I remember I had to hold a long time waiting in the queue. A lot of people were calling doing the same thing.
When they asked the reason for my cancellation, I told them I can’t in good conscience allow Fox News to get any money from me regardless how miniscule it may be and the person said they were hearing complaints about Fox News all morning and they were all cancelling everything.
It’s conservative CNN.
It’s not conservative. It’s UniParty.
Couldn’t agree more, Sunshine
I can’t remember the last time I watched TV.
However, recently I was stuck at the auto shop for two hours with nothing but golf magazines and crappy phone service.
I watched the news station on the TV, I can’t even recall what it was but I was shocked that people can sit there like zombies and stare at the screen, I couldn’t do it.
I think people are dumber just for watching TV in general.. I suppose if you want to zone out it’s okay but sheesh, life is short, get busy!
That’s why they used to call it the boob tube.
Still do.
You mean 55> retahded republicans that can’t discern fact from fiction and don’t mind having a $30 trillion deficit
Uhhh…$40 trillion.
Same here.
The broad brush gets the most votes, eh?
All news all the time is a psyop. Exactly why did it take you so long to figure that out smarty pants.
Fox is Controlled Opposition. They want us believing in the establishment. They want to show enough to keep us angry, but not angry enough to take the next steps.
Perfect description! That is my SIL. I can have conversations w/her thinking she is “in the know” and then I get frustrated when I realize she doesn’t get it. She comes home every day from work plops down on the couch and watches FOX til bedtime.
Don’t care. Not patronizing Fox.
be nice if everyone that cares for the country could say the same, Tom
watching zero tell-a-lie-vision in well over 10 years has set me free
Maria covered the border invasion while others were mum.
very appropriate!
I’m disappointed. On balance she was very good.
Wonder what that email she allegedly shared with Trump said? A good guess was a directive to either stop defending him, and/or to be more critical of him.
i can see that tool Paul Ryan behind this.
Anyone who shares an internal workplace email with outside people deserves to get fired.
Maybe that was her intent?
In your world does that extend to government whistle blowers?
Yes. The whistleblower protection statutes have been twisted and abused so much that they are meaningless.
In “my world,” the whistleblower gets fired for “blowing the whistle.”
The whistleblower sues in court for damages and airs his grievances publicly. A court of law adjudicates the whole affair.
Getting fired can offer damage settlements, when quitting on your own does not.
“Anyone who shares an internal workplace email with outside people deserves to get fired.”
What if the internal memo documents the internal workplace corruption?
Corrupt government officials do it all the time with their media buddies.
They never seem to get fired, their media buddies run the lies and attack anyone who tries to prove the lies are lies, and never acknowledge when the liars are proven to be liars.
And, notably…….the media never burns their lying sources in government who never get fired. They just continue to run more false stories for them.
If Maria showed President Trump documentation from Fox that they were out to “get” Trump in some way, I can see her being fired for telling the truth.
It ain’t right, but I can see it happening.
It’s always “according to a person familiar with the matter”. Could be a dozen people from GOP transparently anti-Trump, and Congressional critters; down to 2028 presidential wannabes and contenders.
Obviously she got the talk by the upper heads on what to say on the air. Fox finally saw the opportunity to cut her loose. She may have been walking a fine line for some time now.
She will thrive in an environment that lets her be herself. She is a New Yawker so that holds prominence. She may be headed south.
I’m sure she’ll get by somehow. I hope she stays aligned more with the Elizabeth Nickson crowd and less with the Tucker/Candice crowd.
“It will be interesting, or not, to see what comes next.”
My vote is “not.”
Similar to the Lou Dobbs parting ways,,,,
Now that you mention it, Newbie, yeah.
The best to you, Maria.
Disappointed. She’s the only one I occasionally tuned in to.
My guess is she’ll be part of the Ellison/Paramount media.
The lawfare by Democrats against Ellison/Paramount is only to “protect” CNN from those dastardly conservatives in order to continue Democrat propaganda. Maria could do a lot of damage if the merger goes through. Interesting.
Something brewing before/during/after the midterms. Like another round of dubious results.
I’m not worried about her. She will land on her feet and be better than ever, without the restrictions. I am a recovering Foxaholic and I have been purged and cleansed. I’m looking forward to her next chapter!
Press Secretary
or Special Assistant to the President.
I can imagine that Maria wasn’t that easy to control, she likely pushed back and argued a lot and did her thing.
That got old with the Boss Men I’m sure.
Howie Carr tonight wondered if she’s going to be the new Press Secretary.
To: Fox News
From: Maria Bartiromo
Please be advised that I hereby tender my resignation from Fox News, effective immediately. I was recently contacted by the White House regarding the position of Press Secretary to President Trump, and was honored to accept the position. Thank you for your attention to this matter. PS: Trump won Arizona in 2020!
LOL 😉
And the Dominion lawsuit / settlement story is wholly fabricated. You know it and I know it. Do with that what you will. I am not suicidal.
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Better position for Maria:
Chief of Staff
Suzie has too much crud up her nose . . .
I guess she should go out and found her own Wall Street investment firm.
IMO, Bartiromo may have become a little “too good” at what she did and/or had wandered “too far” off the leftward-drifting Murdoch Reservation that is today’s Fox News Channel — complete with all its leftist English tentacles and sycophantic, yes-men and women talking heads …
Next stop for the lady ?? Unless there’s some contractual prohibition … or retirement … ??? … Newsmax perhaps … ??? They could certainly use it …
I sometimes wonder who’s next up in the Fox on-deck batter circle to move along … ?? Gutfeld … ??? Gutfeld … ??? Bueller … ??? Bueller … ???
Joey Ramone wants to know!
“I watch her at the big board every single day, While she’s reporting you best stay out of her way; I watch her every day
I watch her every night
She’s really outta sight
Maria Bartiromo
Maria Bartiromo
Maria Bartiromo”
Bye, Felicia!
0.o
To many puppets from FNC have been placed in 2016 and 2024 that never should have been.
Fox always gets rid of their hosts when they’re telling just a little bit too much truth. Lou Dobbs comes to mind. Even Tucker to an extent, he’s completely off the reservation now but when he left Fox he was doing a lot of good work. Even, to her credit, wayyyyy back in the day Megan Kelly would get a little bit unsafe on some of her shows so she had to go.
Fox likes when you go a little bit but doesn’t like when you say the truth in public too much. Next guy they’ll go after is Jesse Waters if they haven’t already, I haven’t watched Fox in at least 6 years.
She is the only show I watched on Fox Business. It was probably Paul Ryan who had her removed. War monger and Big Pharma whore.
I used to watch Stuart Varney, but ever since we are at war with Iran, he has to state how high gas prices are. Never did he ever talk about gas prices being so high during the Biden administration.
I see it the same way.
Maria did as much as she could until she couldn’t.
I hope in her next endeavor she can speak freely and truthfully without walking on the razor’s edge.
They can’t have anyone truely credible at Fox News. After all it is a Murdoch enterprise.
I was a regular listener to her shows on SiriusXM. I’ll miss her.
They are saying that she shared an email/text about a story regarding the 2020 election and Chyna. Her producers were told to not air it. She supposedly shared the message with the Whitehouse, who then called Fox. She just hired a bit time lawyer too.
Someone from the Whitehouse ratted on her to Fox executives?
Now who can that be?
Screeching Maria. No worries, they never go away….
Fox News is still on the air?
Who knew??? I haven’t watched in over a decade and I sleep much better for it.
She had been a work in progress. Not with us MAGA but having enough gut to keep looking for the real picture. Sundance once wrote she might come around and she did. One of my favorite, if not only journalist I listen to when I could.
Actually, when I look at “ANOTHER(!) very well-known public face,” I wonder if he faced – and is still facing – the same pressure, but has responded differently.
As to Maria: “Thank you for your service.” I mean that.
As to him? I purposely reserve comment.
From X
Dylan Byers:
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.