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Trish Regan is out.
Fox Business announced on Friday that it has “parted ways” with the “Trish Regan Primetime” host. This comes just weeks after she stirred up controversy with a March 9 segment where she accused Democrats and the “liberal media” of using the coronavirus to “destroy the president.”
“Fox Business has parted ways with Trish Regan – we thank her for her contributions to the network over the years and wish her continued success in her future endeavors,” the network said in a statement, as reported by Variety. (The network’s parent company Fox Corp. FOXA, -9.85% shares common ownership with News Corp, NWSA, -6.88% the parent of MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones.) “We will continue our reduced live primetime schedule for the foreseeable future in an effort to allocate staff resources to continuous breaking news coverage on the Coronavirus crisis,” the statement also said.
Regan added in a prepared statement that, “I have enjoyed my time at Fox and now intend to focus on my family during these troubled times. I am grateful to my incredible team at Fox Business and for the many opportunities the network has provided me. I’m looking forward to this next chapter in my career.”
The show went on hiatus last week, which the network said was in response to shifting resources to meet “the demands of the evolving pandemic crisis coverage.”
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But Regan had infuriated many viewers just the week before with a segment that featured a graphic reading “Coronavirus Impeachment Scam” on the screen, where she went as far as to say that Democrats were blaming Trump for the virus.
“We’ve reached a tipping point,” she said at the time. “The chorus of hate being leveled at the president is nearing a crescendo as Democrats blame him and only him for a virus that originated halfway around the world. This is yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
There are now 585,040 cases of COVID-19, and at least 26,819 people have died from it. About 129,000 people have recovered.
