ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran was suspended on Sunday after he characterized White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as being “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” in a since-deleted X post.
Moran’s post was made in reference to President Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops for 60 days in order to combat two days of violent rioting targeting federal immigration agents in Los Angeles.
Miller had described the disturbances — which resulted in numerous injuries to ICE agents — as a violent “insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.”
Moran, who landed an interview with President Trump back in April, referred to Miller as “one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy,” adding, “It’s not brains. It’s bile.”
“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,” the ABC correspondent ranted in the now-deleted post. “Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”