ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent, Terry Moran, after he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” in a since-deleted post on X.
“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” an ABC News spokesperson said in a statement. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been suspended pending further evaluation.”
Moran’s post went out just after midnight on Sunday. In it, he writes that although Miller is “one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy,” he operates not on “brains” but on “bile.”
“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” Moran wrote. “He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”
The post prompted a response from Miller on X. He wrote Sunday morning, “The most important fact about Terry’s full public meltdown is what it shows about the corporate press in America. For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose. Terry pulled off his mask.”
Vice President JD Vance also weighed in, writing on X that he knows Miller “quite well,” and that he knows he is “motivated by love of country.” He added that Miller is also motivated by “fear that people like Terry Moran make rules that normal Americans have to follow, but well connected people don’t.”
“It’s why he fought so hard to get President Trump elected and why he works to hard to implement the agenda,” Vance added. “ABC should apologize to Stephen. What Terry posted is disgraceful.”
