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(https://www.statussummit.news/) Get tickets »        Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal   Fox News offered no explanation for Maria Bartiromo’s abrupt firing. But Status has learned what happened behind the scenes, and why it put the longtime host at odds with her own network.    (Oliver Darcy)       (https://www.status.news/authors/oliver-darcy) Oliver Darcy      Sep 3, 2026                              (Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal)           Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal   Fox News offered no explanation for Maria Bartiromo’s abrupt firing. But Status has learned what happened behind the scenes, and why it put the longtime host at odds with her own network.    (Oliver Darcy)       (https://www.status.news/authors/oliver-darcy) Oliver Darcy      Sep 3, 2026              (Bartiromo’s Fox Betrayal)           On Thursday afternoon,  Fox News  issued a press release that reverberated through the media and political worlds. In a terse statement, the network announced that it had severed ties with  Maria Bartiromo  , the once-respected business journalist who in recent years became consumed by right-wing conspiracy theories. "We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter," Fox News said.   That was it. The  Rupert Murdoch  -controlled network offered no explanation for parting ways with the high-profile host, who is known to be very close to  Donald Trump  . It didn’t even explicitly say that Bartiromo had been fired—though make no mistake, she was. In the hours that followed, insiders wondered what had gone awry. What had Bartiromo done to get pink-slipped by the outlet she had called home for more than a decade?   Status  has learned that Bartiromo’s termination stems from an incident, which has not previously been reported, that occurred in July. 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