Terry Moran is still reacting to his high-profile exit from ABC News after he published social media posts critical of Donald Trump and others in his administration.
Earlier this month, Moran labeled Trump and his advisor Stephen Miller as “world-class” haters, stating that they’re both filled with hatred.
“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” Moran wrote. “Yes he is one of the people who conceptualized 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. 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 is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
ABC News severed ties with Moran after originally announcing a suspension. In its announcement that Moran would not return after his suspension, the network said that Moran’s contract was ready to expire and that it would not renew. Moran, however, told The New York Times that that wasn’t the case and that he and the network had agreed to a three-year contract extension and that ABC News was guilty of “bailing” on him. Lawyers for the longtime correspondent are still negotiating with the network over severance.
In a conversation with Tim Miller on The Bulwark, Terry Moran shared that he was almost immediately aware that the comments he made were not being received well and could lead to issues with the network.
“I was rocked, clearly, and full of fear,” he said. “I realized that this was going to be a very serious situation and had to stand up and deal with it.”
After saying he wrote his statements on Trump and Miller “because I thought it was true,” Terry Moran added that he was understanding of why ABC News made the decision it did.
“From my perspective, it looked like a business decision, and I became bad business,” he concluded.
Terry Moran served as the senior national correspondent for ABC News. He had 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.
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