CNN anchor Chris Wallace is calling out his former network Fox News for creating an “unsustainable” environment following the 2020 election.
In an interview with the New York Times published this weekend, Wallace said he felt uncomfortable with programming at Fox News.
“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 drew the ire of critics at the network following his performance as a moderator of the Trump-Biden presidential debate in 2020.
“Some people might have drawn the line earlier or at a different point,” he said. “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.’”
In December, Wallace joined CNN’s streaming service CNN +, following an 18-year run with Fox News. Shortly after Wallace was hired, the man who hired him, Jeff Zucker, resigned amid a relationship with former network executive Allison Gollust.
Regarding his previous employer, Wallace told the paper that he is fine with opinions on both sides of the aisle.
“But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”
