UPDATE: Maria Bartiromo’s Lawyer Goes On Record: “She wasn’t fired!”

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Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer is pushing back on reports that Fox News fired her, and another report offers a possible explanation for the conflicting accounts.

Attorney Bryan Freedman says claims that she was fired or is no longer a Fox employee are false. John Solomon reports that Bartiromo has been removed from the air but remains under contract and receiving pay through 2029.

Those are two different questions: Does she still have a show, and does Fox still have an employment relationship with her?

Dylan Byers shared Freedman’s statement Friday:

According to TheWrap, Freedman rejected both the firing reports and claims that Bartiromo is no longer an employee, calling them “absolutely and unequivocally false.” He also said he has evidence and witnesses, and warned that the dispute could reach a courtroom.

That was a denial from her attorney, not an announcement that she would resume hosting. The statement challenged the reporting about her employment status and the accounts offered to explain her departure.

Fox, meanwhile, directed TheWrap back to its Thursday announcement when asked for comment Friday. The network had previously described the move to the outlet as a business decision.

Freedman has represented other prominent television personalities in disputes over their departures, including Tucker Carlson, Don Lemon, Chris Cuomo and Megyn Kelly. His statement gives Bartiromo’s side of this dispute a clear public position, but does not itself resolve the competing accounts.

Solomon’s report addresses the distinction between her on-air role and her contract:

Solomon says Bartiromo will not return to the air, while Fox continues paying her under a pay-or-play provision. He reports that her contract runs through 2029.

If his account is accurate, being removed from the schedule would not necessarily mean that Fox had terminated her contract or stopped paying her.

That would allow two things to be true at once: Bartiromo could be finished as a Fox host while still having a contractual relationship with the company.

In everyday conversation, someone might describe that as being pushed out. But calling it a completed firing can imply something different about the employment relationship, which is precisely what her lawyer is disputing.

The available statements do not establish whether Bartiromo agreed to leave the air, and Solomon’s reported contract terms have not been independently verified here. It would go too far to state as fact that she was removed against her wishes or to treat the payment arrangement as a publicly disclosed contract.

There is also a real conflict in the wording. Fox News Media announced Thursday that Bartiromo was no longer with the company, effective that day, and thanked her for more than twelve years of work.

The announcement laid out immediate changes to all three of her programs. Mornings with Maria would become Mornings with FOX Business on Friday, with rotating anchors taking over.

Her weekly Wall Street program would become FBN’s Wall Street, with Cheryl Casone hosting this week’s broadcast and rotating anchors afterward. Fox also said a new weekday business-channel schedule would be announced in the coming weeks.

For Sunday Morning Futures, the network named Jason Chaffetz as this Sunday’s host and said a permanent replacement would be announced later. Those concrete programming changes confirm that Fox is moving ahead with other hosts.

Fox’s release did not publish Bartiromo’s contract, spell out continuing pay obligations or describe a negotiated settlement. It therefore establishes the programming changes without settling the contract dispute now raised by her attorney.

Earlier reporting also offered an explanation for the split that remains contested. On Thursday, Byers reported an internal dispute involving proposed coverage of China and the 2020 election:

TheWrap summarized reporting from Status and Puck that Bartiromo shared internal Fox guidance with the White House. Those accounts relied on sources describing events inside the network; Freedman’s subsequent statement disputed the firing narrative and the claims supporting it.

For now, the clearest distinction is between what viewers will see and what the contract requires. Fox has announced replacement programming, her lawyer denies a firing, and Solomon reports that the pay continues.

Her absence from the air would not, by itself, tell us whether Fox has ended its financial obligations to her.

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

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Sacred Scripture

Acts 28 ends abruptly and that’s never sat right with me. With the inclusion of Acts 29, we are given a nice well-rounded finale to Luke’s biography and some interesting closure to Pontius Pilate as well. Join me as I continue my Lost Books of the Bible series on YouTube, reading from Acts 29, 3 Corinthians, and the Phoenix of Tertullian.

You can read along with these texts and more on our Sacred Scripture page. 

IN the summer of 2019, I was seated in the wine cellar of a walled Medieval town high above the Dordogne Valley of France, not far from Sarlat-la-Canéda, making phone calls, writing reports. I have given this story in other places and it appears as though you’re about to hear it again. Rob Skiba is a name you that you might be familiar with. Though he had made a name for himself as a Nephilim researcher, more recently Rob had taken a dive into the deep end of the pool via flat earth research. The recorded interviews I conducted between he and Rick Hummer, a fellow flat earth investigator and close friend of his, was published while still occupying that very wine cellar. Read all about it. Chicago Is Not a Mirage.

Word quickly spread. Within a few short weeks, dozens of flat earth researchers began accepting my invite for a private interview, if not a series of interviews. From a 17th-century tower built by King Louis XIV, and with a stunning view of the Alps, I sat down with Robbie Davidson, founder of the Flat Earth International Conferences, conducting multiple sessions. While staying in Dumfries, Scotland, David Weiss agreed to take part in the interviews, as did Bob Knodel of Globebusters. There were others. But when I asked the interviewees to discuss the moments that shaped their lives, among the many PSYOPs, false flag attacks, and hoaxes that were discussed, only these men committed commentary to the false 9/11 narrative.

The resulting recordings ballooned into The Unexpected Cosmology, a book which became a website and was even intended as an anthology. And of course, the following discourse was originally a chapter. It was Walt Disney who stated, “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.” Those sentiments remain applicable here as well. American Sensationalism: The 9/11 Interviews was always intended to be expanded upon with the inclusion of new researchers. So I’m sorry to say the project became stagnant during the Covid-19 psychodrama. I took a break to tackle other projects. We lost Rob Skiba. Rob offered hours of private conversation regarding his life but we never got around to the big one. 9/11. It was in the cards. Sadly, Bob Knodel died soon afterwards. Voices are being squeezed from an entire generation. Gnosis passes with them.

In the aftermath, the FE community became fractured. People began going their separate ways. Robbie Davidson, among a noted few others who were interviewed for the project, got up and left the movement altogether. It is not my intent to erase his or the contributions of others if only brief. They came, they went, their testimonies remain.

The original vision may have hit roadblocks but it is not forgotten. I expanded this paper a few years later to include testimony from author Pauly Hart, a dear friend of mine. I had wanted to continue that trend every year thereafter but you know how it goes. For the 25th anniversary of the attack I have redirected my efforts to its first large scale expansion, including Andrew Hoy and Darrin Geisinger into the mix. Perhaps others will lend their experiences to the recorder in time.

The following is their report.

Read the 9/11 Interviews

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