ABC News’ senior national correspondent Terry Moran went off on a late-night screed against top White House adviser Stephen Miller along with President on social media — drawing scathing backlash from the Trump administration.
Moran, who landed an interview with the president in April, blasted Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff for policy, as a man “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.”
“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. 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,” Miller argued on X early Sunday.
“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,” the ABC News reporter added. “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 later deleted his posts, but not before they were screen-shotted and spread across X like wildfire.
“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 against Miller came as tensions boiled over in Los Angeles, where hundreds of protesters attempted to derail Border Patrol apprehensions near Paramount, California.
Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops against riots that had spread further around Los Angeles. During this time, Miller publicly ripped the riots as an “insurrection.”
“We will take back America,” Miller vowed in another X post.
Miller, who previously did comms for former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), is widely seen as an immigration hardliner and one of the driving forces behind the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Miller’s portfolio goes beyond immigration.
The White House adviser also helped oversee a slew of Trump’s top policy objectives and has publicly emerged as one of the top champions of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted Moran’s broadside against Miller.
“Last night, in a since deleted post, so-called ‘journalist’ @TerryMoran went on a rampage against Stephen Miller and called President Trump ‘a world class hater.’ This is unhinged and unacceptable,” she wrote on X.
“We have reached out to @ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable.”
Moran is Washington, DC-based and has covered the White House, Supreme Court and presidential campaigns for ABC News.
The ABC news correspondent hasn’t been shy about weighing in on some of the politically dicey subjects he covers. 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 last November.
“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.”
In April, Moran notched a highly coveted interview with Trump for his 100 days in office milestone. The two had sparred over Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador and alleged ties to MS-13.
In December, ABC paid $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit President Trump brought against the news network over George Stephanopoulos’ use of the word “rape” to describe the civil sexual abuse judgement against Trump in a case brought by E. Jean Carroll.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in that case.
The Post reached out to ABC News for comment.
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