Chris Wallace Roasts NBC Execs’ ‘Pretty Dumb’ Decision to Hire Ronna McDaniel [Video]

Chris Wallace took NBC News executives to task for their ill-fated decision to hire Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor.

After fierce backlash, NBC parted ways with the former chair of the Republican National Committee after she lasted just half a scaramucci in the role.

Wallace appeared on CNN’s Laura Coates Live on Wednesday to offer his thoughts, but not before Laura Coates played a clip of him grilling McDaniel in July about the 2020 election. McDaniel told Wallace the contest had “lots of problems” as she echoed former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud.

“What do you make of what happened here?” Coates asked Wallace of the drama at NBC.

“I think it was just a terrible mistake,” he replied. “I understand the idea that you want to find somebody to reflect Trump’s policies, Trumpism, if you will, because he’s one of the two candidates… running for the presidency.”

He then noted that the issue …