Chris Wallace said it had become “increasingly unsustainable” for him to remain with the conservative cable news giant as the network’s stars peddled election denialism and Jan. 6 trutherism
, bemoaned the hard-right shift at Fox News following former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.
Notably, this included expanding the network’s opinion programming, firing its longtime political editor who defended the network’s early and accurate election night projection of Arizona, and the increased prominence of Carlson.
“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace noted. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”moderator acknowledged that critics would say that it took him too long to finally call it quits.
“Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he declared. “I think Fox has changed over the course of the last year and a half. But I can certainly understand where somebody would say, ‘Gee, you were a slow learner, Chris.’”
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