Fox kept Trump’s Reflecting Pool fiasco afloat — now it’s ignoring the fallout | CNN Business

President Donald Trump’s crazed claims about the Reflecting Pool were a ready-made Fox News story, repeatedly embraced by hosts like Jesse Watters earlier this summer. But now the story has fallen apart, and Fox is barely interested. The network isn’t even mustering up a defense for Jeanine Pirro, previously one of its most prominent pro-Trump hosts. Pirro now runs the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. She crossed Trump last Friday by undermining his “vandalism” cries about the Reflecting Pool. Now Trump is considering removing Pirro from her post, sources told CNN on Monday. The schism between Trump and Pirro, whose friendship dates back more than 30 years, is big news almost everywhere. But MAGA media is looking the other way, perhaps because the spat makes both figures look bad. Trump disses Pirro over Reflecting Pool case Fox News only covered the dispute once on Monday, for under a minute, on the evening newscast “Special Report.” Most of that time was spent on a clip of Trump insulting Pirro. “She folded like an umbrella,” he told the press corps Monday afternoon. Fox correspondent Lucas Tomlinson then said, “Pirro’s office said there’