Fox’s Andrew Napolitano Stirred the Pot for Trump’s British Tempest -<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMARCH 17, 2017<br />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<br />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.<br />Mr. Trump refused to back down from the claims on Friday,<br />and even praised Mr. Napolitano, telling reporters, “All we did was quote a very talented legal mind.”<br />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<br />that have been denounced as offensive and, at times, racist.<br />But Mr. Johnson, who was himself once a Fox News contributor, said in a telephone interview<br />that Mr. Napolitano called him on Friday and requested that he speak to .<br />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<br />and the United States while plunging President Trump’s close relationship with Fox News into new, murkier territory.
