ABC Reporter Fired After Criticizing Stephen Miller Goes Scorched Earth on 'Vicious' Trump Advisor

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Source: MEDIAite

Jul 25th, 2025, 1:19 pm


Former ABC News senior correspondent Terry Moran laid into White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, calling him a liar who relishes in “cruelty” during an appearance on former MSNBC host Chris Matthews’s Substack podcast during which both made personal digs at Miller.

“What do you make of this guy? I don’t want to get you in more trouble, but honesty doesn’t hurt too much. I think honesty does work. Steve Miller, I mean, he strikes me in the same area you described him. He seems to me having an attitude. It goes beyond politics, something vindictive. Is that the right word? Is it cruel? It seems to be there’s something there to precede Donald Trump,” Matthews asked Moran.

The “more trouble” remark refers to Moran’s ABC contract not being renewed in June, shortly after he sent out a tweet calling Miller someone who “is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.” ABC called the tweet a “clear violation” of their policies. Moran held nothing back in criticizing President Trump’s advisor, referring to recently-resurfaced videos of Miller as a young man discussing the Iraq War and calling torture a “celebration of human life and dignity.”

The video was originally published in 2017. At the time, the Trump White House characterized it as a “sketch comedy routine.” “I think you’re exactly right, and we now see a bunch of old videos of him as a high schooler, as a young post-college person spitting the same kind of venom and lies, and the word that occurs to me is vicious. He’s a vicious man. He’s cruel and clearly relishes cruelty,” Moran said.

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[flying_wahini]

1. I really really really want to see Stephen Miller get what's coming to him.

If Karma ever needed a push it would be on him.

[Evolve Dammit]

9. All of "them". All domestic terrorists

[sop]

23. At 39, Miller has a lot of post-Trump years ahead of him to get what's coming.

[drmeow]

31. I would like him be on the receiving end of

exactly what considers a "celebration of human life and dignity.”

[Baitball Blogger]

2. All these left leaning reporters need a safe haven place with wide coverage to broadcast

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their truth. I think we're almost at a point where we need something that mirrors FoxNews, with the difference being that it will be fact based.

Maybe then it will be easier to see who is really saying the truth because FoxNew's court settlements will expose them.

[Mysterian]

18. Moran is not a "left leaning" reporter

He is a journalist reporting as objectively as possible, abiding by journalistic professional standards. Right-wingers call objective, fact-based journalism the "liberal media." You should not fall for their propaganda and accuse actual, ethical journaliss of "left leaning" bias.

[The Roux Comes First]

3. It's Truly Astounding to Think a Journalist Could Be Fired for the Words

"Richly endowed with the capacity for hatred," regardless of who it was applied to. In this case, of course, it's akin to being fired for suggesting the earth isn't flat.

Note to self; add ABC to the lengthening list.

[Bengus81]

4. Not surprising in NAZI America..........

[mdbl]

8. As far as news goes, the major networks are going the way of the DODO

No one will want to watch them. The Magats already were trained to mistrust them and now those that counted on them for fact based reporting can't trust them either. Who's left?

[Botany]

5. A while back I met a brother and sister who had been in Miller's, "kids in cages" program .. I can't write what

…. I would do to him. How bad a person do you have to be to have your own wife leave you
for Elon Musk?

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[Evolve Dammit]

7. Family resemblance is striking.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

17. One big difference between the two of them, though.

Goebbels was a notorious womanizer while Miller gets cuckolded.

Both of them have the same cold, dead eyes.

[sop]

24. And Goebbels would have shipped Miller off to the real Auschwitz.

[Marcuse]

33. Goebbels would have had Musk killed. Miller aspires to be Goebbels but is now an incel again.

[rubbersole]

13. Somebody needs to give Miller a can of spray on hair.

Then they could be twins.

[sop]

25. Miller already tried the spray on hair...

[3Hotdogs]

28. Da poor fuck. If I got up and looked at that in the mirror every morning,

I'd be pissed off at the world, too.

[AZ8theist]

44. That 5-head makes a perfect ...........

...can't say it. I'd get banned.

[maddiemom]

27. But WAIT!

Check out the background of Miller's WIFE! Regardless of the truth of the Musk thing, if you ever wondered who would marry Miller.... or who would come up with "kids in cages" ?

[MrsCheaplaugh]

32. Talk about separated at birth nt

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Miller needs to be in the Hague. Homan, Bondi and Noem as well.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. Gitmo

We aren't a part of the ICC - which can work in our favor when the Regime falls.

[Evolve Dammit]

21. I forgot he burned that bridge too

[JustAnotherGen]

22. Bill Clinton

Signed the Rome Statute, but never submitted it to the Senate.

Now get this - Bush the 2nd formally withdrew us 2002.

March 2003 we went into Iraq and committed war crimes and torture.

This is why I get so angry when people say we are supposed to be a beacon of liberty, freedom, and human rights.

We have NEVER been that country.

[Evolve Dammit]

39. That is awesome recollection and I thank you. I had zero idea, and I watch a lot (too much) of news. n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

41. My late father

Was stridently against the war in Iraq. The Vietnam Era Green Beret missed the anti War movement of the 60's. I remember his yelling about this after our imperious invasion of Iraq. Then the Abu Ghraib incident sparked another round hollering.

[Evolve Dammit]

42. I remember like it was yesterday. Abu Ghraib (and Falluja) were our war crimes c. 2001. "Unitary Executive."

"we create our own reality." IMHO that's how we got to where we are. Attacking the Wong fucking country. We used white phosphorous Willie Peet, a fucking chemical weapon in Iraq. Ironic since we were allegedly trying to address Saddam's chemical weapons which Rumsfeld gave the Iraqi's when they were seen as a deterrent to Iran. "Aluminum tubes and mushroom clouds." Thanks Colin Powell and Kinda Sleezy Rice.

[Evolve Dammit]

43. And sorry about the loss of you father. He knew.

[Joinfortmill]

35. There's a work around for that.

[MLWR]

10. Dear ABC,

I thought you were better than this. I was wrong. Terry Moran has been a mainstay forever. Screw you. Fortunately we have the internet for our news. All of you media moguls who are bending the knee to the likes of donald trump will end up reaping what you sow. You all have lost your trustworthiness. Bah bye.

[live love laugh]

12. It's just "corporate" media not complicit only "for profit" of shareholders....

[Cha]

14. Bravo Terry Moran! I'm glad

his voice can still be heard on Podcasts! Underground Democracy.

Who knew the media on the Slippery Slope would Slide into Assessing Fascism? I cancelled all M$M in November 2002.. and here we are.

[sakabatou]

15. ABC kisses the ring

[ReRe]

16. I would love to tell everybody what I would do with NaziMiller, but

DU would ban me for life. So I won't.

[Qutzupalotl]

19. Someone should start a network of all the journalists Trump got fired.

Call it Fired News: All the news with nothing to lose.

[Botany]

29. Fired News and Fake History that is modus operandi for this criminal outfit and its supporters

News reports the facts that make you look bad go after the news organizations and
if American History has to do with genocide, racism, slavery, and some really fucked
up Christianity that told people that God was good with slavery because he made them
black or the ultra nut ball Christians of New England were nut balls just rewrite history
via Musk’s A.I. machine.

[Joinfortmill]

36. I like it!

[thought crime]

38. Absolutely Brilliant!

[BoRaGard]

20. k and r

[marble falls]

26. I think Terry Moran didn't go far enough, and that ABC has all the back bone of a bowl of jello.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. Stephen Miller reminds me of Goebbels

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[Joinfortmill]

34. Legacy News is committing suicide

[thought crime]

37. It's chilling to see media outlets backing down.

This is what fascism looks like.

[FakeNoose]

40. Please tell me Terry Moran is writing a BOOK

I'd definitely buy it and read it.