Former US President Donald Trump is seen on video during the hearing of the election commission of the US House of Representatives to investigate the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6 on Capitol Hill in Washington, USA, June 9, 2022.
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A former political editor of Fox News, who was fired from the cable network last year, said on Friday that he would testify on Monday at the next hearing of the House of Representatives election committee for the January 6 Trump uprising in the Capitol.
Chris Sturworth made the announcement on Newsnation’s cable network, where he is a political editor. He said he could not discuss what the testimony would be about.
His announcement came the morning after the first public hearing of the Uprising Committee on January 6, 2021, when hundreds of followers of then-President Donald Trump broke down doors and windows to invade the Capitol and delay Congressional confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. elections.
The next meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, followed by five more. Fox News did not broadcast the hearing live on Thursday night, as did other news and television networks. Instead, Fox aired two hours of ad-free programs from right-wing commentators Tucker Carlson, who dismissed the hearing as “propaganda,” and Sean Hannity.
While Fox News broadcast live footage of the hearing, Carlson and others talked about it, and the camera often focused on the audience rather than the footage of the Capitol attack. During the hearing, the commission showed texts from Haniti to then-White House spokeswoman Kaylee McEnnany outlining the “game set” for Trump after the riots.
Stirewalt was criticized by Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political bureau was the first to call Biden in Arizona in November 2020. The state had a recent attempt to vote for Republican presidential candidates, so the call stunned political world and all but confirmed that Trump will lose the election in 2020.
Stirewalt was fired in January 2021. Rupert Murdoch, who controls the parent company of Fox News, told The Washington Post that Stirewalt’s dismissal “had nothing to do with a proper call to Arizona from the Fox decision office.”
After Fox fired him, Stirewalt, without mentioning Fox News, said the media “hype men” had helped spread the false story that the election had been stolen by Trump.
“The revolt of the populist right against the results of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, conscious effort by political operators and their advertising people in the media to steal elections or at least get rich by trying,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times. “But it was also the tragic consequence of the information malnutrition that has hit the nation so hard.”
Representatives of Fox News and the selected committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kevin Brewinger and Brian Schwartz of CNBC contributed to this report.
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