Chris Wallace recently explained his decision to leave his post as a Fox News anchor after 18 years, saying he “just no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox,” according to a new report.
“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Wallace told the New York Times. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”
He added that he “spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job.”
Wallace declined to renew his contract as host of Fox News Sunday in December and now will host a daily interview show — Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace — on the new CNN+ streaming service beginning Tuesday.
Wallace said he became increasingly concerned in the months after former President Trump’s 2020 loss as the channel fired the political editor who helped project a Trump defeat in Arizona on election night and promoted hosts, including Tucker Carlson, who downplayed the Capitol riot.
Wallace told the New York Times he took his concerns about Carlson’s documentary, Patriot Purge, which falsely suggested the riot was a “false flag” operation to gin up opposition against conservatives, directly to Fox News management.