Fox fired Stirewalt in January 2021 following a right-wing backlash on the network – rightly – calling Arizona incumbent President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Stirewalt wrote in a Los Angeles Times post that the refusal to believe the election results among many of former President Donald Trump supporters was a “tragic consequence of the information malnutrition that is affecting the nation so badly.” “I am not in a position to tell you now what my testimony will be,” Stirewalt told NewsNation. He continued: “I was asked to testify and I had to go.” He criticized both parties for politicizing the January 6 investigation, adding: “These two parties have pushed it from pen to post.” When asked to comment on his remarks, Stirewalt told CNN: “I will leave my remarks on the air to speak for themselves.” The House Select Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 held its first prime time hearing on Thursday night, detailing the committee’s findings and playing a new video from behind-the-scenes testimonies of team members. of Trump and depicting violence in the Capitol. Thursday’s hearing was the first in a series this month to highlight the commission’s findings, which included interviews with more than 1,000 people about how Trump and his team sought to reverse the 2020 election results. on multiple fronts. As the hearing aired Thursday, Fox – which did not participate in other major networks to broadcast the hearing live – downplayed the Jan. 6 violence and dismissed revelations about Trump’s behavior. The network also ignored its own role in promoting false allegations about the election before the uprising and the publication of personal messages by the commission among some of its hosts.
