No one will ever know with complete certainty (unless there is an investigation) but whatever happened to Maria Bartiromo was fast and tragic. She went from being one of the most respected financial reporters on Wall Street to a MAGA hack that is now held below Judge Jeanine Pirro when it comes to credibility. This Sunday, Maria was basically speculating out loud prior to an interview with Sen. Lindsay Graham.

According to Joe.My.God:

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo was just asking questions on Sunday morning when she wondered whether or not the White House wanted to see Ukraine “taken down” and was looking to “sell out” the country.

Bartiromo’s curious questions came less than an hour after she asserted on air that “some people” had told her that the White House doesn’t see Russian President Vladimir Putin as an enemy but rather a “partner” throughout the Ukraine crisis.

This is an incredible position coming from someone who is arguably the single biggest Trump supporter on Fox’s staff. Of course, being a Trump supporter also makes one a Putin supporter, indeed that seems to be the predicate, first one supports Putin and then one supports Trump. This might explain why Bartiromo has been all over the place in the last couple of weeks. As explained by The Daily Beast:

Notably, nowhere in this interview did either Graham or Bartiromo mention former President Donald Trump’s continued reluctance to criticize Putin—or note that Trump was impeached for threatening to withhold military aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the country to investigate Biden ahead of the 2020 election.

Of course they wouldn’t mention anything such as that, why would they

Over the past few weeks, Bartiromo—along with many of her Fox News colleagues—has been all over the map with her commentary on the rising international crisis. Just days before Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in fact, Bartiromo repeatedly suggested that the White House was fabricating the threat of war in order to distract from Fox News’ relentlessly misleading coverage of Special Counsel John Durham’s latest filing.

It is really tough being a “Must Not Say a Bad Word About Putin” type right now and both poor Lindsay and Maria are struggling. You know it’s bad when pairing Putin and Biden is all you’ve got. We suppose that is a way of saying nice things about Putin, saying he’s working with Biden?

Fox's Maria Bartiromo: "Some people have told me over the weekend that they feel that, at the end of the day, this administration does not see Putin as the enemy, they see him as a partner!" pic.twitter.com/lkYddMlXUs

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) March 13, 2022

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