ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran interviewed President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. There were some contentious moments in the discussion.
Moran interviewed Trump as part of coverage of the first 100 days of the administration. Moran’s interview was featured in the President Trump the First 100 Days: The Interview in the Oval Office special that aired on Tuesday evening.
During the interview, Trump asserted that Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the wrongly deported Maryland man — was a member of the MS-13 gang. He stated that photographs of Abrego Garcia’s tattoos show that to be true. Moran argued that the picture had been photoshopped because the MS-13 identifiers did not appear in the immigrant’s processing photos when he was sent to El Salvador.
That led Trump to state that he had hand-selected Moran for the interview.
“Terry, you can’t do that,” Trump said. “Hey, they’re giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you’re doing the interview because I picked you because — frankly — I’d never heard of you. But that’s ok. I picked you. But Terry, you’re not being very nice.”
Terry Moran has been at ABC News since 1997. He served as the network’s Chief White House Correspondent from 1999 to 2005, before becoming the co-anchor of Nightline. After exiting the late-night news program in 2013, he became the network’s Chief Foreign correspondent, before assuming his current role in 2018.
Moran called the interview a “great opportunity” to ask important questions of President Donald Trump. He encapsulated the interview by calling some of the answers “provocative, at times combative, and, as always, he was strong in his convictions about his policies.”
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