Bill O’Reilly is certain “there’s nothing good” for Fox News about Tucker Carlson’s exit from the network.

While speaking with NewsNation, O’Reilly suggested a string of lawsuits was the primary factor behind Fox News choosing to let Carlson go.

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Carlson’s departure from Fox News followed the network settling a $787.5 million defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems. Smartmatic, another election technology company, is also suing Fox News for 2020 election fraud allegations.

Additionally, O’Reilly said Carlson was named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed by a former producer that alleged hostile workplace conditions.

“The board of directors said we got to start cleaning this up,” O’Reilly suggested as Fox News’s reasoning for terminating Carlson. “Get out ahead of these lawsuits because we’re going to lose them, and we’re going to get hammered, and it’s never going to stop, so we’ll start the purge.”

Despite impending litigation, O’Reilly said Carlson’s departure would only hurt Fox News, given Carlson’s success in drawing, on average, around 3 million viewers each night.

“There’s nothing good about this! Nothing!” O’Reilly said.

O’Reilly, who left Fox News in 2017 following sexual harassment allegations, also predicted that the network will “lay off about 30% of their personnel in the next six months.”

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Carlson’s Tucker Carlson Tonight took over O’Reilly’s prime-time spot and would go on to drive ratings for Fox News, leading cable news programming only to be topped recently by the network’s roundtable program The Five.

“This is bad for Fox News,” O’Reilly said. “You have a slide in television ratings, including Fox, the last six months. That slide will now be on steroids when the 8 o’clock hour collapses on Fox, which it will, because Tucker Carlson was driving that train.”