Terry Moran Insulted Stephen Miller? That’s None of the Government’s Business.
Terry Moran is a senior national correspondent for ABC News. Over the weekend, his employer suspended him over a statement he posted (and subsequently deleted) on X. In it, Moran described Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff, as “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.”
“You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment,” wrote Moran. “He eats his hate.”
The tweet drew a fierce rebuke from Vice President J.D. Vance, who described it as an “absolutely vile smear.” Vance, of course, is entitled to that opinion. But White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt went a step further, declaring that “we”—i.e., the federal government—would be inquiring with ABC about disciplinary action.
Last night, in a since deleted post, so-called “journalist” @TerryMoran went on a rampage against Stephen Miller and called President Trump “a world class hater.”
This is unhinged and unacceptable.
We have reached out to @ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry… pic.twitter.com/HsgusJEIvH
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) June 8, 2025
This is a textbook example of “jawboning”—when the government tries to accomplish some censorship by threatening improper government action. It is exactly the sort of thing that conservatives rightly hated about the previous administration: President Joe Biden, his senior advisors, and various feder
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