US broadcaster veteran reporter Terry Moran had termed Trump aide Stephen Miller a ‘world-class hater’. ABC News veteran reporter Terry Moran won’t be coming back to ABC News after the broadcaster suspended him for calling United States President Donald Trump and his deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller “world-class haters” in a social media post.
In a statement, the US network added on Tuesday that Moran’s hastily deleted post on X was “a clear breach of ABC News policies”, the Associated Press news agency reports.
It continued that Moran’s contract was set to expire and “given his recent tweet… we’ve decided not to renew” it. The Sunday night post was mainly aimed at Miller, whom Moran referred to as “the brains behind Trumpism”.
“Miller is a person well-endowed with the ability to hate. He’s a world-class hater,” Moran had written on X. Moran, who had just interviewed Trump as Senior National Correspondent for ABC News, had also termed the US President as a “world-class hater”, but said in Trump’s case, it was merely a “tool towards an end” of “his self-glorification”.
In Moran’s case, though, Moran explained, “his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate”. The Trump administration was quick to denounce Moran’s tweet, with Vice President JD Vance calling it an “absolutely vile smear of Stephen Miller”.
Moran, age 65, had been working at ABC News since 1997. He was a longtime co-host of “Nightline”, and covered the Supreme Court and national politics. During an interview with Trump that was broadcast a month ago, the president told Moran, “You’re not being very nice” during a contentious exchange about deportations.
Trump aide Steven Cheung responded to Moran’s exit on Tuesday with a post on X, simply saying: “Talk s***, get hit.”
Miller, however, has been preoccupied with the Trump administration announcing that it is deploying 4,000 National Guard troops and a Marine battalion to Los Angeles amid anti-immigration enforcement protests in California’s capital.
In one X post on Tuesday, Miller called California a “criminal sanctuary for millions of illegal alien invaders” and that “huge swaths of the city where I was born now resemble failed third world nations.”
