Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo strongly implied nefarious ties between NPR and the private messaging app Trump administration officials used to discuss a military operation

According to Bartiromo, both NPR and Signal share a suspiciously common connection.

“What are the odds that Katherine Maher, the leftist NPR CEO, is on the board of Signal as well?” Bartiromo asked Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Tex., during Fox Business’ “Mornings with Maria” on Friday.

Maher, who became NPR’s chief executive last year and testified Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee’s DOGE subcommittee that Fallon sits on, is on the Signal Foundation’s board of directors.

The Signal app was used by Trump administration officials to discuss an upcoming military operation in Yemen in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth purportedly gave a blow-by-blow account of the operation.

Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, was to the conversation after he was apparently inadvertently added to the group text by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.

Bartiromo did not elaborate on the alleged conspiracy, which Fallon agreed with.

“Yeah, she’s a hard lefty, too, when you see some of the comments she’s made,” said Fallon, “that she’s so tired, done with, quote-unquote ‘late-stage capitalism,’ and ‘President Trump is racist’ and ‘America is addicted to white supremacy.’ This is the CEO of NPR.”

During her testimony, Maher expressed contrition for her tweets about Trump, which were posted before she took the helm of NPR.

“I regret those tweets,” the NPR chief executive said. “I would not tweet them again today. They represented a time where I was reflecting on something that I believe the president had said, rather than who he is. I don’t presume that anyone is a racist.”