Fox Business Network has paid news anchor Maria Bartiromo a massive $70 million since 2014, reports Martin Holmes of TV Insider. Holmes reports, “The revelation came in documents disclosed as part of Smartmatic’s $2. 7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The files, obtained by TheWrap, include transcriptions of the deposition in which Bartiromo, a defendant in the suit, was asked about [.].
Fox News host Trey Gowdy suggested on Wednesday that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and her latest “psychotic episode” is contributing to the GOP’s inability to unite and defend President Donald Trump’s agenda. This follows Republicans facing a severe drubbing in this week’s elections, with Democrats claiming huge victories in state and local races in Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and elsewhere.”Do not get distracted,” said Gowdy. “I mean, you look at the headlines recently . you got an apoplectic congresswoman who’s having a psychotic episode in Charleston, at an airport. You’ve got this debate over white nationalism. I think Trump is saying Republicans quit talking about all of that. Start talking about the best 10 months any president has ever had in our history, and maybe we have a chance in the midterms.”Mace, who has a long history of public meltdowns and bizarre stunts, has spent several days throwing a temper tantrum over an interaction she had at Charleston International Airport with TSA officers, calling them “incompetent,” claiming that they endangered her safety, and threatening to sue over allegedly falsified incident reports. She also claimed they would never have treated Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) like this, prompting the senator to issue a scathing rebuke of Mace’s behavior. This is also not the first time that Mace has clashed with Gowdy, who himself used to be a South Carolina representative. At one point, she even suggested he could be transgender during her recent crusade against LGBTQ rights. YouTube www. youtube. com.
A North Carolina Democratic state lawmaker resigned from his position after being charged with felonies tied to alleged sexual conduct with a minor. The move from Rep. Cecil Brockman of High Point comes after he faced bipartisan calls to resign and a potential committee investigation, announced by North Carolina’s House speaker, into his alleged misconduct. “I am currently facing criminal charges brought against me in Guilford County. Due to the seriousness of these accusations, I need to focus on my defense of these allegations,” Brockman, 41, said in a statement obtained by WXII. “As a result, I am unable to.
