ABC News has suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran for criticizing a White House official.
In a since-deleted post, Moran called White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world class hater” who is pulling the strings behind the scenes.
“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.”
He continued: “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.”
Moran’s post came hours after Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to protests over ICE raids in Southern California. Miller, an immigration hardliner, had described the protests as a “violent insurrection.”
In a statement on Sunday, ABC News said Moran has been “suspended pending further evaluation” following his post.
“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.”
Moran’s suspension comes after Trump administration officials criticized the network.
Miller responded to the post on X on Sunday morning writing, “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.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt publicly demanded that ABC discipline Moran.
“We have reached out to ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable,” she wrote on X.
“Hopefully this journalist will either be suspended or terminated,” Leavitt said in an interview on “Sunday Morning Futures” on Fox News.
