ABC News suspended a main correspondent on Sunday following a social media position deleted since he criticized the deputy chief of staff of the White House Stephen Miller and President Trump.
Shortly after midnight, Sunday, the main national correspondent Terry Moran wrote on X that Miller was “richly endowed with hatred capacity”. Moran continued: “He is a world class hate.”
Moran also castigated Mr. Trump, saying that his hatred is “only a means for an end, and which ends (is) its own glorification”.
The position was deleted early Sunday morning and Moran has not said anything publicly since then.
An ABC News spokesperson confirmed that the news division suspended Moran pending more in-depth assessment of the incident.
“ABC News represents objectivity and impartiality in its media coverage and does not tolerate subjective personal attacks on others,” the spokesman said in a statement to CBS News. “The message does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards.”
Sunday, the White House went to the offensive against Moran, with the press secretary Karoline Leavitt Respond to Moran’s commentsThe appellant “disarticulated and unacceptable” on Sunday.
Miller posted on social networks that Moran’s “complete public merger” shows that the “privileged anchors and journalists telling and guards our society were radicals adopting the installation of a journalist”.
Vice-president JD Vance also weighed, calling the post of Moran of “Salting Vile” on Miller and that he is “dripping with hatred”.
“In this case, I know Stephen very well,” said Vance. “And he is motivated by the love of the country. He is motivated by a fear that people like Terry Moran establish rules that normal Americans should follow, but well -connected people do not do so.”
In April, Moran interviewed Mr. Trump in the first significant appearance of the president’s dissemination during his second term. Moran has been with ABC News since 1997 and covered terrorist attacks on September 11 and the war in Iraq.
In December 2024, ABC News set a defamation costume With Mr. Trump, agreeing to contribute $ 15 million to his presidential foundation and his museum. The trial, brought by Mr. Trump, accused the anchor George Stephanopoulos of having acted with “malice or with an imprudent contempt for the truth”, to wrongly point out that a jury found Mr. Trump responsible for rape in the E. Jean Carroll case, rather than sexual abuse.
Mr. Trump is also Continue news from CBS Accusing the press organization of the interference of the elections for the “deceptive” edition of an interview “60 minutes” with vice-president Kamala Harris during the 2024 campaign. CBS News calls claims “false. “”
