It turns out that Maria Bartiromo didn’t resign because she’s going to the White House for some big job. That could still happen, but it turns out she was fired for enlisting the White House to pressure her bosses at Fox News to run a story on election fraud.
Here’s the report via Dylan Byers with Puck News:
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: Maria Bartiromo has hired famed lawyer Bryan Freedman …
*and: she was fired shortly after last appearance on August 9, though network announced news today.
MORE: Maria Bartiromo has hired famed lawyer Bryan Freedman …
*and: she was fired shortly after last appearance on August 9, though network announced news today.
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) September 3, 2026
Wowza. Didn’t really expect a curveball like this. But if true, I kinda can’t blame Fox News. I mean, she totally tried to pull rank on them to get her story out, and there’s isn’t much bigger than enlisting President Trump’s White House to get your way.
But like most things, there’s probably more to this story.
UPDATE: Ok, here’s another version of the story by Status, via a Democrat strategist.
NEWS: Status is reporting Fox fired Maria Bartiromo after she leaked internal texts to the White House showing the network had told staff to stop amplifying Trump’s latest election conspiracy theories. Trump has so thoroughly captured the right-wing media ecosystem that its… pic.twitter.com/GlBDnqVTxi
— Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) September 3, 2026
Not so captured if she was fired, right? You idiot.
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) September 3, 2026
