Former Fox News host Chris Wallace stunned viewers last year when he announced his plan to leave the network for CNN’s new streaming service but now he’s revealing what truly prompted his departure. Speaking with The New York Times, Wallace said he felt things at Fox were “unsustainable”, especially in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election.

According to The Daily Wire:

“I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” Wallace said. “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable. I spent a lot of 2021 looking to see if there was a different place for me to do my job.”

Wallace also told the NYT that he had complained to network executives about programming like then colleague Tucker Carlson’s “Patriot Purge,” which he believed only encouraged those who had been caught up in false narratives about the 2020 election being “stolen” from former President Donald Trump.

“Before, I found it was an environment in which I could do my job and feel good about my involvement at Fox,” Wallace continued. “And since November of 2020, that just became unsustainable, increasingly unsustainable as time went on.”

Wallace also admitted that it’s been his plan to leave the world of politics altogether and when CNN+ offered a new show outside the scope of politics Wallace jumped at the chance.

“One of the reasons that I left Fox was because I wanted to put all of that behind me. There has not been a moment when I have second-guessed myself about that decision,” he said.