Jonah Goldberg, anti-Trump conservative who left Fox News, joins CNN

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CNN announced Monday that Jonah Goldberg, an anti-Trump conservative writer and commentator who left Fox News last year, is joining the network as a contributor, Variety reported.

According to Variety, Goldberg "will appear on CNN programs as news networks gear up for the 2022 midterm elections."

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According to its official summary, Carlson's documentary alleges that "the Biden regime is using the Capitol riots on Jan. 6 to paint Americans as terrorists" and asks "how much of what we're told was a lie?"

Goldberg and Hayes announced their departure in a piece published at The Dispatch, a commentary site they founded. Carlson's documentary, they wrote, was a "collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering," and at Fox, "the voices of the responsible are being drowned out by the irresponsible."

Goldberg was an editor at conservative magazine National Review from 1998 until 2019.

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