Until last Monday he could boast of being the most watched man on American television. But the scandal over the lies surrounding the 2020 electoral fraud has cost him his head at Fox.

Through the back door comes a character as revered by conservative hosts as hated by progressives. The product of a conservative home and married for 31 years to a woman who pushed him towards a religion with which he does not fully commune. In his Fox days, he went so far as to say that Iraqis were "semi-literate primitive monkeys" and that immigrants who come to the United States make "the country poorer, dirtier and more divided"