ABC News Senior National Correspondent Terry Moran was suspended on Sunday after he characterized White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller as being “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” in a since-deleted X post.

Moran’s post was made in reference to President Trump’s decision to deploy 2,000 California National Guard troops for 60 days in order to combat two days of violent rioting targeting federal immigration agents in Los Angeles. Miller had described the disturbances — which resulted in numerous injuries to ICE agents — as a violent “insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States.”

Moran, who landed an interview with President Trump back in April, referred to Miller as “one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy,” adding, “It’s not brains. It’s bile.”

“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,” the ABC correspondent ranted in the now-deleted post. “Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

In a statement to Axios, an ABC News spokesperson confirmed that Moran “has been suspended pending further evaluation.”

“ABC News stands for objectivity and impartiality in its news coverage and does not condone subjective personal attacks on others. The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards,” the statement read.

Moran interviews President Donald Trump on April 29, 2025

In responding to Moran’s “public meltdown,” Miller argued that it underscores the fundamental issues with the mainstream media.

“For decades, the privileged anchors and reporters narrating and gatekeeping our society have been radicals adopting a journalist’s pose,” the senior Trump advisor wrote in an X post of his own. “Terry pulled off his mask.”

Vice President J.D. Vance echoed Miller’s sentiments, as did White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “An ABC journalist [Terry Moran] posted this absolutely vile smear of Stephen Miller. It’s dripping with hatred. Remember that every time you watch ABC’s coverage of the Trump administration,” Vance posted on X.

Moran’s latest outburst comes on the heels of a $15 million defamation settlement ABC News reached with President Trump in December. The settlement came after network mainstay George Stephanopoulos’ use of the word “rape” to describe the highly controversial defamation and sexual abuse case brought by E. Jean Carroll.