Journalist Terry Moran is out at ABC News after calling top White House official Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” whose “hatreds are his spiritual nourishment” on social media.
On Tuesday, ABC News said that it was not renewing its contract with Moran because of the 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,” a spokesperson for the network said in a statement.
“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,” the spokesperson said.
Moran’s post, which was timestamped early Sunday, appears to have been deleted.
The post said Miller 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.”
“It’s not brains. It’s bile,” the post read.
“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater,” it read. “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,” the post read. “But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”
Vice President JD Vance and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt were among the White House figures who objected to the post.
Miller is deputy chief of staff for policy and an immigration hard-liner who also had a significant role in President Donald Trump’s first term.
One former Trump adviser who knows Miller well has described him as “the president’s id.”
ABC suspended Moran on Sunday, the same day as the social media post.
Moran was an anchor for ABC News Live and a senior national correspondent who led coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court, ABC News said on its website.
Before that, he was the network’s chief foreign correspondent. He joined ABC News in 1997.
