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Former ABC News reporter Terry Moran isn’t letting up on his “vicious” criticism of Stephen Miller more than a month after his “world-class hater” post about Donald Trump and his senior White House aide led to his abrupt exit at the network.
Moran, in an appearance on ex-MSNBC host Chris Matthews’s Substack podcast, referred to old clips of Miller while arguing that he’s been “spitting the same kind of venom and lies” as he has in the Trump administration.
In one video, a 17-year-old Miller said that the torture of Iraqis during the Iraq War is the “way to go” because it’s a “celebration of human life and dignity.”
“The cruelty is the point,” said Moran of Miller.
“He’s about power. Trump is his path to power. Trump sees him as essentially putting kind of some intellectual gloss on his own gut instincts and they work together to bludgeon the country with almost a disheartening and depressing level of cruelty and falsehood every day.”
He continued, “I think that’s accurate, fair and true. And it got me fired!”
Moments earlier, Moran argued that Miller “clearly sees lying as a way of exerting power,” calling such moves “deeply wrong” and “a bludgeoning.”
Moran — who has since launched a Substack of his own since his ABC News ouster — has previously defended his June post, saying it was something on his “heart and mind” at the time.
His post — which described Miller as getting “spiritual nourishment” from his “hatreds” — led to swift outrage from top White House officials, including Vice President JD Vance.
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He was subsequently suspended by ABC News, which called the post a “clear violation” of the network’s policies. The network would later announce that his contract would not be renewed.
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