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ABC's Terry Moran Suspended for Attacking Stephen Miller [1]
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Date: 2025-06-08 15:21:37+00:00
ABC News has reportedly suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran over a deleted X post in which he called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater.”
According to CNN’s Brian Stelter, ABC News said Sunday that Moran has been “suspended pending further evaluation” following his post.
“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote in the deleted post. “Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. 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. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
In its full statement obtained by Stelter, ABC News said Moran’s post was a violation of standards.
“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” the network said. “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.”
Full statement from the news division: "ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others. The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards — as a result, Terry Moran has been… — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 8, 2025
The White House immediately denounced the comments — with Vice President JD Vance calling them an “absolutely vile smear.
“ABC should apologize to Stephen,” Vance wrote in a post on X. “What Terry posted is disgraceful.”
And moments before the suspension was reported, the White House ramped up the pressure on ABC News to punish Moran. In an interview on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, press secretary Karoline Leavitt called on the network to take action against the correspondent.
“Hopefully this journalist will either be suspended or terminated,” Leavitt said.
Watch above, via Fox News.
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