Fox’s Andrew Napolitano Stirred the Pot for Trump’s British Tempest -
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMARCH 17, 2017
Andrew Napolitano was a Superior Court judge in New Jersey until, frustrated by the constraints of his salary, he left the bench for more lucrative pastures: talk
radio, a syndicated small-claims court TV series (“Power of Attorney”) and, eventually, Fox News, where he rose to become the network’s senior legal analyst.
Mr. Trump refused to back down from the claims on Friday,
and even praised Mr. Napolitano, telling reporters, “All we did was quote a very talented legal mind.”
The president’s next scheduled appearance on Fox News is Saturday night, when an interview will air between him and Mr. Watters, a host known for on-the-street interviews
that have been denounced as offensive and, at times, racist.
But Mr. Johnson, who was himself once a Fox News contributor, said in a telephone interview
that Mr. Napolitano called him on Friday and requested that he speak to .
It was in that basic-cable capacity this week that Mr. Napolitano managed to set off a cascading scandal, which by Friday had sparked a trans-Atlantic tiff between Britain
and the United States while plunging President Trump’s close relationship with Fox News into new, murkier territory.
