Terry Moran stands by social media post about Trump, Miller, says ABC felt he was 'bad for business'

Former ABC News analogous Terry Moran stood by his societal media station that attacked President Donald Trump and White House adjutant Stephen Miller connected Monday, and spoke retired connected his departure from the network, saying that ABC felt similar helium was "bad for business."

Speaking to The Bulwark's Tim Miller, Moran said his exit from ABC News, which came aft helium was suspended implicit the societal media post, was a calculation by the network.

"That's a bureaucratic thing. I don't know. Actually, it wasn't bureaucratic. It was their calculation and the Stephanopoulos press, I shouldn't get excessively adjacent to the line," helium said, referring to ABC paying Trump $15 million to settee a defamation suit successful December. "But it was a concern decision. From my perspective, it looked similar a concern decision. And I became atrocious business, it feels like."

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Former ABC News analogous Terry Moran spoke to "The Bulwark" connected Monday astir his departure from ABC News. ((Photo by Paula Lobo/ABC via Getty Images) )

In a June 8 societal media post, Moran called Trump and Miller "world-class haters."

"Miller is simply a antheral who is richly endowed with the capableness for hatred. He's a world-class hater," Moran wrote successful the post. "You tin spot this conscionable by looking astatine him due to the fact that you tin spot that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate."

Moran maintained that his station connected X was existent and described it arsenic thing that was successful his heart.

"It was thing that was successful my bosom and mind. And I would accidental I utilized precise beardown language, deliberately, due to the fact that he, I felt, and it wasn't immoderate – you spot him each the clip doing the same, spitting venom and lies into our debate, degrading our nationalist discourse, debasing it and utilizing the powerfulness of the White House and what he's been fixed to grind america down successful that bile. And, that's precise disturbing to me," Moran said. 

The erstwhile ABC analogous said helium was "rocked" and afloat of "fear" the greeting aft helium posted connected X. 

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters extracurricular the West Wing of the White House connected April 18, 2025, successful Washington, D.C.  ( Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

"And I realized that this was going to beryllium a precise superior concern and had to basal up, you know, and woody with it. And enactment is 1 of the champion things to assuage fear. But also, I thought astir it successful my ain conscience first. And I thought, arsenic I archer you, I wrote it due to the fact that I thought it was true. And astatine the extremity of the day, erstwhile each the atrocious worldly has happened, my children volition cognize that immoderate it means, it means that," Moran said. 

ABC News did not instantly instrumentality a petition for comment.

An ABC News staffer told Fox News Digital that determination was "no alternative" to letting Moran spell aft his societal media post. 

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Moran defended calling President Trump a "world-class hater," saying the president was "degrading our nationalist discourse, debasing it and utilizing the powerfulness of the White House and what he's been fixed to grind america down successful that bile." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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"It's conscionable bittersweet honestly," the ABC News staffer told Fox News Digital. "It's bittersweet for him, a long-time colleague, friend, a bully person, household man… It's conscionable unfortunate, but determination was nary alternative, particularly successful these times."