Chris Wallace says working at Fox News became "unsustainable" prior to his departure from the network.
In December 2021, the 74-year-old journalist opted not to return as host of Fox News Sunday, ending his run with the network after 18 years.
Speaking with The New York Times in a new interview about his decision, Wallace said he noticed things began to change at Fox after President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
"I'm fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion," he explained in the piece, published Sunday. "But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable."
The veteran journalist admittedly "spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job," after he realized he "no longer felt comfortable with the programming at Fox."
Wallace also confirmed previous reports about him complaining to Fox News management about Tucker Carlson's documentary Patriot Purge, which falsely claims that the Jan. 6 insurrection was simply a "false flag" operation with the goal of painting conservatives in a negative light.
"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."
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