Can You Really Get Fired From Fox News for Being Too Trumpy? I’m Skeptical.

The Slatest I’m skeptical. Sept 04, 20265:21 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images. This story is adapted from the Slatest newsletter. You can sign up here to get it in your inbox every day. Maria Bartiromo, the conservative TV host known for her staunch support of Donald Trump, is out at Fox News. Generally speaking, we at the Slatest try to avoid getting wrapped up in palace intrigue, especially media palace intrigue. But this particular ouster offers an important window into how things really work at Fox—as well as into the broader conservative media ecosystem in which the network is the apex predator. What exactly did Bartiromo do? Details are still trickling out, but here’s what we know. On Thursday, Fox announced that Bartiromo was “no longer with” the network