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…