Eric Thomas Bolling is an American television personality, conservative political commentator, author, and financial commentator.
27 Facts About Eric Bolling
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Eric Bolling has occupied numerous roles as a commentator on financial issues for television, most notably for Fox News.
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Eric Bolling hosted Fox Business Channel's Cashin' In and Fox News Channel's The Five before leaving in May 2017.
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An outspoken supporter of Donald Trump, Bolling has published two books: Wake Up America and The Swamp: Washington's Murky Pool of Corruption and Cronyism and How Trump Can Drain It.
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In September 2017, Bolling was ousted from Fox News, after the network conducted an independent investigation following an article published by HuffPost reporting that Bolling had sent unsolicited lewd photographs and text messages to three female colleagues.
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Eric Bolling later hosted the television shows America on TheBlaze and America This Week produced by Sinclair Broadcast Group and carried by their stations as a Sunday morning talk show.
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Eric Bolling was born in Chicago and attended grade school at Queen of All Saints Basilica school and high school at Loyola Academy.
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Eric Bolling was drafted in 1984 by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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Eric Bolling was one of several analysts who appeared on CNBC's Fast Money as a panelist.
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Eric Bolling joined Fox Business Network in March 2008 as a financial analyst.
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In 2008, Eric Bolling was named a co-host of Happy Hour, a market commentary show in the 5 pm time slot.
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In June 2011 on the Fox Business Network, Eric Bolling criticized President Barack Obama's decision to meet with Gabon's president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, in the White House.
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Fox News Specialists was created to replace The Five in the 5 pm time slot, with Eric Bolling serving as a co-host alongside Katherine Timpf and Eboni Williams.
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The program premiered on May 1,2017, but was cancelled when Eric Bolling departed the network.
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Trump and Eric Bolling first met on the set of The Apprentice about ten years before Trump's 2016 presidential campaign; the two were introduced by Mark Burnett, a mutual friend, and went on to develop close ties.
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Eric Bolling interviewed Trump more than six times over his presidency.
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Eric Bolling is accused of making "wildly inappropriate" comments to female employees.
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The day after the HuffPost article was published, Eric Bolling was suspended from Fox News pending an investigation, which the network commissioned the law firm Paul, Weiss to conduct.
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Eric Bolling's summons did not specify the statements he contended were defamatory, and he did not bring an actual complaint against Ali.
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On September 8,2017, Eric Bolling was ousted from Fox News.
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Eric Bolling joined the Conservative Review's CRTV in the summer of 2018.
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CRTV merged with TheBlaze to form Blaze Media in 2018; in December 2018, Eric Bolling signed an agreement to stay with Blaze Media through 2021.
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At Sinclair, Eric Bolling repeatedly promoted Trump's campaign to discredit voting by mail and baselessly suggested that mail-in voting was prone to fraud.
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In 2020, Bolling conducted an interview for America This Week with Judy Mikovits, a discredited researcher featured in the video Plandemic.
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In June 2017, Eric Bolling publicly mulled running as a Republican for US Senate after his contract with Fox expired; Eric Bolling opined that some Republicans were insufficiently right-wing.
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In early 2021, Eric Bolling considered a congressional run in 2022, looking into a possible Republican primary challenge in South Carolina to either Representative Tom Rice or Representative Nancy Mace.
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Eric Chase Bolling died on the same day Bolling departed Fox News.