MAGA is going off on an ABC reporter who dared attack White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
ABC’s Terry Moran wrote Saturday night on X in a since-deleted post that “what’s interesting about [Stephen] Miller” is “not brains. It’s bile,” further describing President Donald Trump’s top aide as “a man who’s richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” and “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,” Moran went on, suggesting that what sets Miller aside from the president is that Trump’s “hatred [is] only a means to an end, and that end his his [sic] own glorification.”
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One of Trump’s closest confidants, Miller is the architect of the administration’s hardline immigration policies.
A spokesperson for ABC told The Daily Beast Moran had been suspended on Sunday “pending further evaluation.”
“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others,” the spokesperson said. “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards.”
Lambasting the anchor as a “so-called ‘journalist’” on X Sunday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt eviscerated Moran for his “rampage.”
She described his comments as “unhinged and unacceptable” and said the White House has “reached out [to ABC] to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable.”
Vice President JD Vance was quick to pile on, blasting Moran for “this absolutely vile smear of Stephen Miller,” insisting that the aide is “motivated by a love of country” and calling for the anchor to apologize.
“[Miller’s] motivated by a fear that people like Terry Moran make rules that normal Americans have to follow, but well connected people don’t,” the vice-president added.
Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, said Moran’s comments demonstrate “why Americans don’t trust the legacy media” and said it is an example of “propaganda [...] under the guise of righteousness.”
Katie raised eyebrows this past week after departing the White House with Elon Musk after the Tesla CEO brought his tenure at the Department of Government Efficiency to a close.
She went a step further than Leavitt and Vance, saying Moran should be “fired from the network immediately.”
The Daily Beast has reached out to ABC News for comment.
Earlier in April, Moran attended the White House for an interview with Trump to mark the first 100 days of the president’s second term in office.
It was a tense affair, with Moran challenging the president over the wrongful deportation of Maryland dad Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, and Trump trying to pressure Moran into agreeing that a clearly doctored photo, which showed “MS-13” tattooed across the man’s knuckles, was in fact real.
It was not the first case of friction between Trump and ABC. Last March, the then-presidential candidate sued ABC for defamation after host George Stephanopolous repeatedly mischaracterised a court ruling in which Trump had been found liable for sexual abuse rather than “rape.”
In December, both Stephanopoulos and ABC issued an apology and agreed to pay $15 million toward Trump’s presidential library fund, as well as $1 million in legal fees, to settle the president’s claims.
