Suzanne Scott muzzled Maria Bartiromo
By Peter Navarro | The Washington Times | September 8, 2026
The muzzling of Maria Bartiromo by Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott should be a wake-up call to every Fox viewer who believes the network is pro-Trump and pro-MAGA. I am implicated in this story, so I will give it to you straight, no chaser.
On July 16, President Trump gave a rare prime-time address to the nation on communist China’s vast capabilities to interfere in America’s elections. That’s a big story by any measure, the kind every major news outlet carries and then chews on across its programming.
Ms. Bartiromo booked me to discuss the speech the next morning. Hours later, she told me Fox had clamped down on any coverage and forwarded the text that had gone to her producers from Scott enforcer Ralph Giordano, Fox Business’ programming chief: “Hi – We don’t want to promote it or push to the speech at all. We don’t want to do 2020 election segments at all Thurs or Friday.”
Sean Hannity carried the president live and gave him five minutes afterward. The next morning, “Fox & Friends” did not mention that a president had addressed the nation.
That was a slap at the president and at every Fox viewer who tuned in for analysis and got censorship. It was my duty to share that text with the White House. Ms. Scott got an angry call from the West Wing.
Unrepentant, Ms. Scott gave Ms. Bartiromo the Fox “Golden Muzzle”: Just the News reported that Ms. Bartiromo will get paid for the three years left on her contract but cannot appear on a rival network. On Sept. 3, Fox announced she was gone. I got banned from the network.
I don’t know whether Suzanne Scott is a Trump-hating RINO. I do know her business model is.