Fox host Maria Bartiromo is pushing back on claims from an ex-producer on her show who alleges that she used her personal connections to former President Trump to protect herself at the network.
In an interview with TIME, Abby Grossberg, who was fired by Fox last month and is suing the network for workplace harassment, says Bartiromo was treated differently than her male colleagues and felt pressure to attain high ratings.
Grossberg worked with both Bartiromo and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
“If they were marginalizing her, she could always say, ‘I can get the President of the United States on the phone,’” Grossberg said in the interview with Time. “She had that power over Fox, and it protected her.”
Bartiromo, a longtime financial news host and pro-Trump commentator, remains one of Fox’s top-rated weekend personalities, with her Sunday Morning Futures program rating among the highest on cable television.
She, like several other high-profile hosts at Fox, have well-known personal connections with Trump and other leading political figures in both parties.
“I have interviewed four American presidents and several international heads of state during my distinguished career and have had rapports with leading figures across the world,” Bartiromo said through a spokesperson. “These allegations are absurd and patently false.”
In its most recent statement about Grossberg’s claims, the network said it “will vigorously defend Fox against all of her unmeritorious legal...
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