Politics
Prominent ABC Reporter Lets The Mask Slip With Unhinged Anti-Trump Rant
Senior ABC News correspondent Terry Moran, who has long billed himself as an “unbiased journalist,” let the mask slip on Saturday night with a wild screed against President Donald Trump and one of his leading allies, Stephen Miller.
Moran, who landed an interview with President Trump back in April, referred to Miller as “one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy,” adding, “It’s not brains. It’s bile.”
Moran further blasted Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, as a man “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,” the ABC host ranted in the now-deleted post. “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.”
On Sunday morning, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Moran’s outburst in a scathing X post of her own.
“Last night, in a since deleted post, so-called ‘journalist’ [Terry Moran] went on a rampage against Stephen Miller and called President Trump ‘a world class hater,'” Leavitt wrote, adding that the ABC correspondent’s conduct was “unhinged an unacceptable.”
“We have reached out to [ABC] to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable,” she added.
While Moran ultimately deleted the post, screenshots were obtained and quickly ignited a firestorm on social media. “An ABC journalist [Terry Moran] posted this absolutely vile smear of Stephen Miller. It’s dripping with hatred. Remember that every time you watch ABC’s coverage of the Trump administration,” Vice President JD Vance posted on X.
Moran’s tirade came as the Trump Administration was announcing extraordinary measures — including the deployment of the California National Guard and possibly U.S. Marines — in order to quell two days of rioting that erupted in Los Angeles over the weekend. Trump deployed 2,0000 troops in order to end what Miller referred to as an “insurrection.”
Despite his prominent position, Moran is no stranger to making controversial political statements. Last November, Moran explained that he predicted Trump would win in 2016 and 2024.
“The way to understand Trump (as I said on ABC Election Night 2016) is to see him not as a Republican or Democrat, not as a conservative or liberal, but as a Nationalist,” he posted on X. “And, like many nationalist leaders, he is a man with an authoritarian cast of mind and a personality to match,” he added, noting that he was “not endorsing any political point of view.”
Moran’s latest outburst comes on the heels of a $15 million defamation settlement ABC News reached with President Trump in December. The settlement came after network mainstay George Stephanopoulos’ use of the word “rape” to describe the highly controversial defamation and sexual abuse case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
