'Failing the American people': Ousted ABC reporter rips old network for caving to Trump

Terry Moran, a broadcast journalist who was fired from ABC News in June after posting a message on X referring to top White House adviser Stephen Miller as a "world-class hater," blasted his old employer this week for "failing the American people."

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 joined "In Good Faith with Philip DeFranco" on Thursday to talk about Trump 2.0.

When asked if he knew the post would put his job at risk, Moran said he wouldn't have made the post if he knew he'd get fired.

"But I did think I'd get in trouble and good trouble," he said, noting he had earned a reputation of challenging the network's coverage — including advocating for more coverage of President Joe Biden's age and fairer coverage of President Donald Trump.

"It wasn't, 'Oh, the hell with it,'" he said, referring to flippantly posting on X.

ABC, he said, was under intense pressure from the White House to fire Moran. Disney executives in California made the call, he added.

“Look, Disney is a multi-kabillion dollar business, right? ABC News is a little tiny speck in that giant empire. The last thing that the head of Disney or anybody in these corporate offices wants is a problem with the president of the United States because somebody in the news division tweeted something,” he said.

Moran said network TV is "failing the American people."

They have corporate pressure on them and they have kind of rules — what they can say and what they can’t say, what they can describe and what they can't describe,” Moran said of his fellow journalists. “The facts in front of them are eluding their coverage. And I think they are disserving the American people.”

His remarks come after ABC settled a lawsuit with Trump by agreeing to pay $15 million to Trump's presidential library and $1 million to his legal team to resolve a defamation lawsuit stemming from on-air statements by anchor George Stephanopoulos.

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