A top Trump administration official indicated on Tuesday that the admin isn’t happy with Fox News over its treatment of ousted anchor Maria Bartiromo.
Bartiromo was out at Fox News after she reportedly ran to the White House for help when the network refused to allow her to move forward with a story about 2020 election fraud and alleged Chinese interference.
“Status, a publication focused on the media industry, and Puck News reported that Bartiromo was fired after sending White House officials sensitive internal Fox communications,” according to The Washington Post.
To be clear, her lawyer Bryan Freedman has denied this narrative and alleged that she’s “still employed by Fox.”
Either way, just the reports that she was fired have been enough to anger the administration’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, Peter Navarro.
Appearing on Newsmax late Tuesday, Navarro slammed Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, blaming her for Bartiromo’s ouster, and also accused the network of not being “friendly to MAGA.”
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Peter Navarro talks about what actually happened with Maria Bartiromo.@gregkellyusa pic.twitter.com/PNPUl5CU5S
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) September 9, 2026
“The bigger story here is, forget about anybody thinking that Fox is a conservative network that’s friendly to MAGA, that’s friendly to Trump,” he began, immediately signaling his anger at Fox News.
“Suzanne Scott is the enforcer. They’ll feed you some red meat over there — the easy stuff, the trans stuff, stuff like that — but when it comes down to MAGA things, Suzanne Scott gets rid of everybody over there who wants to talk about MAGA issues,” he scathingly added.
Navarro also suggested that Bartiromo’s alleged firing, as well as the past ousters of former hosts Lou Dobbs and Tucker Carlson, all had to do with President Donald Trump.
“This was all about talking about Trump issues,” he said. “You fire people like Tucker Carlson and Lou Dobbs, now Maria Bartiromo. That throws fear into all these other anchors and keeps them in line. It’s like, ‘Don’t talk about kinda Trump stuff,’ right? And we know how that network has not treated Donald Trump very well.”
Navarro also penned an op-ed for The Washington Times reiterating some of the points he’d made on Newsmax.
The muzzling of Maria Bartiromo by Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott should be a wake-up call to every Fox viewer who believes the network is pro-Trump and pro-MAGA.
READ @WashTimes 👇https://t.co/XCYduA3Sug
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) September 8, 2026
“The muzzling of Maria Bartiromo by Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott should be a wake-up call to every Fox viewer who believes the network is pro-Trump and pro-MAGA,” the fierce column began.
“I don’t know whether Suzanne Scott is a Trump-hating RINO,” Navarro added several paragraphs later. “I do know what her business model is.”
According to him, her business model involves feeding the base “conservative red meat” while ignoring “MAGA themes such as election integrity, Big Pharma, and benefits of the Trump tariffs.”
Navarro concluded his column by calling for Scott to beg for forgiveness and resign from her post.
“If this story were to end in a triumph of journalistic ethics, Ms. Scott would prostrate before Mr. Trump for disrespecting the office and to Trump Nation for suppressing MAGA news,” he wrote. “She would apologize to Ms. Bartiromo for punishing, at worst, a minor infraction and, at best, an act of journalistic integrity, and put her back in the anchor chair.”
“She would also lift the shadow ban on Trump surrogates, and fast, so the administration goes into this critical November election at full strength,” he added. “Then she would resign.”
Navarro also made an appearance on Steve Bannon’s podcast.
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Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott should resign.
Fox censored President Trump’s primetime address, muzzled Maria Bartiromo for trying to cover it, and gave its viewers censorship when they tuned in for the truth. pic.twitter.com/mHZxQ2P2mK
— Peter Navarro (@RealPNavarro) September 8, 2026
As for Bartiromo, The New York Times has alleged that she’s still on contract at Fox News for a couple more years.
“Ms. Bartiromo still has considerable time left on her contract, according to two people familiar with the matter, meaning that Fox News is still obligated to pay her millions a year despite ending her on-air role,” the paper reported.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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