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 said retired connected his departure from nan network, saying that ABC felt for illustration he was "bad for business."

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

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

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Former ABC News analogous Terry Moran said 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 man who is richly endowed pinch nan capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater," Moran wrote successful nan post. "You tin spot this conscionable by looking astatine him because you tin spot that his hatreds are his belief 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 opportunity I utilized very beardown language, deliberately, because he, I felt, and it wasn't immoderate – you spot him each nan clip doing nan same, spitting venom and lies into our debate, degrading our nationalist discourse, debasing it and utilizing nan powerfulness of nan White House and what he's been fixed to grind america down successful that bile. And, that's very disturbing to me," Moran said. 

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

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters extracurricular nan West Wing of nan 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 very superior business and had to guidelines up, you know, and woody pinch it. And activity is 1 of nan champion things to assuage fear. But also, I thought astir it successful my ain conscience first. And I thought, arsenic I show you, I wrote it because I thought it was true. And astatine nan extremity of nan day, erstwhile each nan bad worldly has happened, my children will cognize that immoderate it means, it intends that," Moran said. 

ABC News did not instantly return a petition for comment.

An ABC News staffer told Fox News Digital that location 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 nan president was "degrading our nationalist discourse, debasing it and utilizing nan powerfulness of nan 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 sad honestly," nan ABC News staffer told Fox News Digital. "It's sad for him, a long-time colleague, friend, a bully person, family man… It's conscionable unfortunate, but location was nary alternative, particularly successful these times."