Maria Bartiromo Screamed At William Barr On The Phone Over Biden’s Win: Book

Maria Bartiromo, among Fox Corp.’s biggest on-air enablers of Donald Trump’s falsehoods about election fraud, used her media clout to vent to then-Attorney General William Barr after Trump’s defeat, according to a new book.

“She called me up and she was screaming,” Barr told Karl in an excerpt shared by CNN on Sunday. “I yelled back at her. She’s lost it.”

Karl, the ABC News chief Washington correspondent, confronted Bartiromo about Barr’s assertion because “after all, it’s highly inappropriate for a journalist to call the attorney general and demand he do something related to a criminal investigation.”

Karl wrote that Bartiromo didn’t respond but a Fox spokesperson “denied Barr’s account of the conversation on Bartiromo’s behalf.” It was Barr who set the aggressive tone, the rep said. HuffPost has reached out to Fox for further comment.

Karl also described Bartiromo in unflattering terms. She was someone who “had once been a widely respected and trailblazing financial journalist. … Now she had her own show on Fox News and she was using it to boost a series of unfounded allegations designed to overturn a presidential election,” he wrote.