After a 22-day absence, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with Fox News. The terse statement from Fox:
“We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 and a half years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,” it said.
The Potential Reason
Maria Bartiromo had delivered an on-air apology in June 2026 after guest Kevin O’Leary falsely claimed on her show that opponents of his Utah data center project were funded by China.
It wasn’t true, and O’Leary walked it back.
Prompted by potential defamation concerns, Bartiromo and other Fox hosts read formal network retractions and corrections on-air, stating that neither the network nor O’Leary had any evidence of Chinese funding or coordination.
Fox kept her after problems in the Dominion lawsuit. Maybe this was too much of an error, or they were threatened with lawsuits and had no choice. That is just my opinion.
Her enemies and Fox News’s enemies were just waiting for an opportunity. The truth is no one on our side can allow mistakes in this climate.
She will be missed. One by one, Trump’s supporters are being erased.