Ousted journalist says ABC News saw him as 'bad for business' amid Trump fallout

Former ABC senior national correspondent Terry Moran, who was fired after calling top Trump aide Stephen Miller "a world-class hater," said he believed the network made a "business decision" to let him go.

"It was their calculation," Moran said of his former bosses during an interview with The Bulwark's Tim Miller. "It was a business decision. From my perspective, it looked like a business decision. And I became bad business, it feels like."

The controversy began when Moran posted to social media, "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. It's not the brains. It's the bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater."

Moran said he doesn't regret the sentiment "because I thought it was true." Earlier, he told The New York Times, “I don’t think you should ever regret telling the truth. And I don’t."

"You don't sacrifice your citizenship as a journalist, and the job is not to be objective," Moran told Tim Miller. "There is no Mount Olympus of objectivity where a Mandarin class of wise people have no feelings about their society. We're all in this together. What you have to be is fair and accurate."

Moran added, "I will also say, while very hot, is an observation, a description, that is accurate and true."

Shortly after posting his observation, ABC News released a statement saying it did "not reflect the views of ABC News" and "violated" their standards. Moran was first suspended, then fired several days later.

Moran's social media bio now says he's an "independent journalist" writing on Substack.

Watch the Bulwark interview with Terry Moran below.