Suspended! ABC News takes stern steps against Terry Moran after facing White House criticism; here's the full story

Terry Moran, a veteran ABC News correspondent, was suspended on Sunday after he slammed US President Donald Trump and his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, on X. Moran posted a highly critical assessment of the president and his close aide, which drew a sharp reaction from the White House, prompting ABC News to take disciplinary action.

White House reacts strongly to ‘hate’ post

In the X post, Moran accused Trump and Miller of being "world-class haters." For Trump, he claimed, hatred is “only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment,” according to a CNN report. Moran also said that for Miller, “Hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”

Moran's exact post on Miller reads, "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 brains. It's bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. 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."

He then addressed Trump, saying, “Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred [is] only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment.”

However, he later deleted his post on X and did not post anything further about the issue. Meanwhile, the Trump administration reacted sharply to the issue, claiming that this post by Moran "reflected poorly on ABC News." According to CNN, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt even publicly pushed ABC News to take necessary action against Moran and discipline him, however necessary. “We have reached out to ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable,” Leavitt wrote on X.

Soon after, ABC News took the call to suspend the veteran correspondent.