VENDETTA – Institutional Investor's smear piece on Fox Business Super Star Maria Bartiromo
Would seem Maria's real journalism & avoidance of the 4am talking points is a perceived threat the "old guard" and has drawn their ire?
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"For instance, after Trump’s infamous August 15, 2017, press conference — where he seemed to defend the racial violence that had just transpired in Charlottesville, Virginia, by claiming there were “some very fine people on both sides” — Bartiromo tweeted in support of Trump, “T[o]d[a]y @POTUS @realDonaldTrump fights back w[ith] excellent press conf[erence] & facts.”
Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and former Treasury secretary (and former National Economic Council director and Harvard president) was appalled. He tweeted, “.@MariaBartiromo my friend, say it ain’t so. A serious person defending @realDonaldTrump #Charlottesville? Is this you or @FoxNews speaking?”
Summers, who used to appear on television with Bartiromo, hasn’t been on with her since.
In May 2018, Bartiromo claimed on her morning show that President Obama had “politicized all of his agencies: the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the CIA — they were all involved in trying to take down Donald Trump.” This was after Trump had tweeted the day before, “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes — and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” Nothing came of these allegations — no surprise — although the topic did divert attention for a day or two.
But Bartiromo’s commentary did attract the wrath of S.E. Cupp, once a frequent guest on Fox News and now a CNN star. “Who is writing the story of Bartiromo’s spectacular career turn?” Cupp tweeted on May 30. “. . . It. Is. Stunning.”
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1cq2nzw56k40k/Maria-Bartiromo-Was-a-Generational-Icon-for-Financial-Television-What-Happened?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Essential%20II%2011619&utm_content=The%20Essential%20II%2011619%20Version%20A%20CID_add82884214a9c143d8548b236fdb8e3&utm_source=CampaignMonitorEmail&utm_term=Maria%20Bartiromo%20Was%20a%20Generational%20Icon%20for%20Financial%20Television%20What%20Happened