The man ain’t following the Trump script over there?
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said Wednesday he has “purposely” kept lawmakers off his Sunday news program who have spread unfounded conspiracy theories about electoral fraud and suggested President Biden‘s win in 2020 was not legitimate.
“Well, there were plenty of people, in the Congress, who were the leaders of challenging it who I have just not had on the show ever since then,” Wallace said during an appearance on CBS’s “The Late Show.”
“And [I] have purposefully not had them on, frankly, because I don’t want to hear their crap,” he said…
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Wallace said Republicans in Congress have “cynically decided” that backing Trump’s claims of a stolen election is the right move “because of the Trump base … they’re gonna say something they know is not true.”
The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was the worst thing he’s ever seen during his decades-long career as a journalist in Washington, D.C., he added.
“I’ve been in Washington 40 years, so I’ve seen a lot of bad stuff,” Wallace said. “But nothing like this … as I’m sitting there and watching it live on television and seeing this mob coming to the cathedral of our democracy and sitting in the chair that the president of the senate sits in and running around the rotunda, I was sickened.” …
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Wallace is the only FoxNews person I respect.
He goes after everybody and usually asks incisive question.
I have a hunch that at some point he will leave FoxNews and write a book which will not be flattering to that network.