Exclusive | ABC News staffers pissed at Terry Moran over stupid verbal assault on Trump aide Stephen Miller: He should be fired
ABC News staffers are “pissed” at Terry Moran and some are calling for his head after he blasted Trump aide Stephen Miller as a “world class hater,” The Post has learned.Moran’s diatribe on social media over the weekend, which he has since deleted, was condemned by ABC News executives for lacking “objectivity and impartiality.”The veteran newsman was suspended “pending further evaluation” Sunday, but some colleagues felt the punishment did not go far enough.“He should be fired,” one ABC News insider told The Post on Monday.“People inside are pissed at Terry for screwing things up for the network.”“Everything that Trump has said about the media — that they are haters and they are biased — Moran proved it true,” the source explained, adding that journalists are supposed to “check your biases at the door and only deal with the facts.”Firing Moran may serve embattled ABC News boss Debra OConnell, who is in the throes of trimming the budget amid larger cuts at Disney.A source with knowledge said a journalist with Moran’s level of experience — namely a senior-level correspondent who has covered the White House and co-anchored “Nightline” — likely makes between $600,000 and $900,000 a year.“That could save the network a lot of money, and she would demonstrate to the White House that ABC takes the issue seriously,” the person said.ABC News declined to comment.Moran did not respond to requests seeking comment.His early-morning screed Sunday tore into Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff.“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.
Yes, he 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,” Moran railed on X.“It’s not brains.
It’s bile.Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.
He’s a world-class hater,” the ABC News reporter added.“You can see...