“Some of our opinion programming is there strictly to be entertaining. “They can say whatever they want,” he said. In an interview with Time magazine in March 2018, Smith said that “they don’t really have any rules on the opinion side. The next day, Smith said that “attacking our colleague who is here to offer legal assessments, on our air, in our work home, is repugnant.” Later that night, Carlson asked his own analyst, Joseph diGenova, about that and he called Napolitano a fool. Two weeks ago, Smith clashed with Tucker Carlson that started when Napolitano, speaking on Smith’s program, said that it was a crime for Trump to solicit aid for his campaign from a foreign government, in this case Ukraine. On his afternoon newscast, Smith had frequently given tough reports debunking statements made by Trump and his supporters - even the Fox News opinion hosts that rule the network’s prime-time lineup. While he often angered many of Fox’s conservative viewers, Smith’s work was most prominently cited by the network when it received criticism for being too partisan.

Smith was one of Fox News Channel’s original hires in 1996, and was a particular favorite of Roger Ailes, the former Fox chairman who was ousted in 2016 following misconduct charges and died the following spring. Neil Cavuto, who anchors the broadcast following Smith’s, looked shocked after the announcement. On Thursday, the president cited Smith and Fox analysts Andrew Napolitano and Donna Brazile in a tweet that said, “Fox News doesn’t deliver for US anymore. Trump has been increasingly critical of personalities on Fox News that he views as disloyal. His departure comes one day after Attorney General William Barr met privately with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, founder of Fox News, although Smith’s representatives cautioned against conflating the two events.

“Even in our currently polarized nation, it’s my hope that the facts will win the day, that the truth will always matter, that journalism and journalists will thrive,” he said. Smith, who had signed a contract extension last spring, said that he had asked the network to let him out of his deal and it had agreed. NEW YORK (AP) - Shepard Smith, whose newscast on Fox News Channel seemed increasingly an outlier on an outlet dominated by supporters of President Donald Trump, abruptly quit after signing off his final newscast on Friday.

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