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Bret Hot American Summer

Baier’s surprisingly punchy Trump interview has briefly elevated his stature at the precise moment when Fox News is more insecure than ever. Now it looks like he’s in for a tidy little raise.

Following the Dominion suit and Tucker’s exit from Fox, Baier’s journalistic bona fides now seem more valuable than ever.
Following the Dominion suit and Tucker’s exit from Fox, Baier’s journalistic bona fides now seem more valuable than ever. Photo: Warren Little/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
June 21, 2023

On Monday night, as Fox News anchor Bret Baier was interviewing Donald Trump—memorably contesting many of the ex-president’s false claims, eliciting a possible admission of obstruction, and calling into question the one-time Apprentice star’s talent recruitment pedigree—the chattering classes who usually lament Fox’s toxic effects on American political culture rendered an opposing, near-unanimous verdict. In their estimation, Baier had conducted a masterful interview, a respectful but rigid grilling, an act of journalism that served as antidote to that inglorious CNN town hall.