

Terry Moran will not resume his position as ABC News’ senior national correspondent, The Hollywood Reporter announced Tuesday afternoon. The news comes only two days after the network first suspended the journalist over a now-deleted X post in which he criticized White House Deputy Chief of Staff and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller for his role in the second Trump administration.
“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred,” the deleted post read, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He stated Miller was a “world-class hater,” a moniker he also applied to the sitting President.
Various members of the Trump administration publicly reacted to Moran’s comments; Vice President JD Vance wrote that the post was “dripping with hatred” and that ABC should apologize to Miller, while White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the attack was “unhinged and unacceptable,” via CNBC.
ABC announced shortly afterwards that Moran would be placed under suspension “pending further evaluation,” according to Axios — a suspension that has since expanded into a full removal from his post.
“We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post — which was a clear violation of ABC News policies — we have made the decision to not renew,” an ABC News representative told The Hollywood Reporter. “At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism.” Moran had worked for the network since 1997.
Both Moran and ABC News have had recent spats with the Trump administration within the last year. Moran got into an argument with the President during an interview in April in which he questioned Trump about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man that his administration mistakenly deported and imprisoned without trial, as reported by NPR. Trump told Moran that he should be grateful for the “big break” he had offered the journalist by agreeing to an interview in the first place, remarking: “You’re not being very nice.”
ABC also paid $15 million to the administration in December to settle a defamation lawsuit over multiple instances in which members of the programs Good Morning America and This Week incorrectly reported that Trump had been found ‘guilty of rape’ in his trial against author E. Jean Carroll. The President was found guilty of defamation and lesser counts of sexual abuse towards the author — but not rape, a distinction Trump sued the network over (also via The Hollywood Reporter).
Moran did not make a public statement to The Hollywood Reporter following his removal.
