Chris Wallace Says Working at Fox News Was ‘Unsustainable’ After 2020 Election

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left Fox News last December after 18 years for cable news rival CNN, said that working at Fox News after the 2020 election was “unsustainable” and he “just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox.”“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Wallace told the New York Times in an interview published Sunday. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election?

Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”Wallace, who is launching his own interview show on Tuesday on the new CNN+ streaming service, confirmed that he complained to Fox News leadership about Tucker Carlson’s streaming documentary “Patriot Purge,” which falsely claimed that the Jan.

6 Capitol riot was a “false flag” operation intended to tarnish conservatives. “Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace told the Times. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”Wallace noted the critics who have suggested that he should have left the network sooner. “Some people might have drawn the line earlier, or at a different point,” he told the Times. “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.’”A rep for Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.