Terry Moran, ABC News’ correspondent, said he was completely sober before writing his famous Trump post-post Stephen Miller, saying that the network broke an agreement to sign again after the consequence of the fire storm, according to a report.
Moran, in his first interview since he was preserved last week, said to the New York Times: “It was not a drunken tweet.”
“I wrote it and said,” It’s true, “according to the interview published on Monday.
The veteran journalist called the Deputy Director of Chief of Staff of the White House “A World Class Hater” in a place from morning to X on June 8.
“What happens to Stephen Miller is not that it is the brain behind Trumpism … But this is not the interesting thing about Miller. It’s not a brain. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with hatred. He is a world -class hater. A means to finish, and this ending is his own glorification.
Some speculated that the split of Moran’s social networks in the hours may have been induced by alcohol.
Moran, 65, shot this line of thought, telling the times during a zoom call that came after a “normal family night”.
He has been composing the place since a night walk, a family dinner and watching “Ocean’s eleven” with his children, said Moran.
“I wrote it and looked at it and thought,” It’s true, “he said.
The reaction from the inside and out of the net was quick. Trump administration officials circulated on social media and demanded actions. The Vice President JD Vance called the statements “an absolutely vile frotis”.
Press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, also re -published the message, calling it “puzzled”.
Moran was contacted by ABC News Brass, he said -he was put in office and suspended at the end of the day.
“I was clearly and full of fear, and I realized that this would be a very serious situation and I had to plant and tackle,” Moran said to Times.
His contract expired last Friday and he hoped to reduce the outcry, despite the fact that staff colleagues said they were “angry” about the reputational damage they caused and some were asking for the head, according to the post exclusively.
Moran, who joined ABC News in 1997, said that the network had reached an oral agreement to expand its contract for three more years, only to reverse the course abruptly.
“We had an agreement,” he told Times. “They are rescuing.”
Last Tuesday, the network announced that it would not renew Moran’s contract.
“We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on its recent publication, which was a clear violation of ABC news policies, we have made the decision not to renew -At ABC News, we maintain all our journalists with the highest standards of objectivity, equity and professionalism, and we are still committed to delivering simple trust journalism.”
Bob Iger, CEO of the ABC News Matrix, Disney, signed the decision.
Moran disputes the ABC calendar and insists that it was under the impression that it would remain.
His lawyers are drawing up the terms of his separation, he told the Times.
In a tracking interview with Bulwark Tim Miller, Moran said, “I became a bad business.”
The fall comes at a sensitive time for ABC News. The network recently agreed to a $ 16 million agreement with President Trump for a complaint demand related to George Stephanopoulos’s inaccurate comments on the conclusions of the Civil Jury in the case E. Jean Carroll.
Moran suggested that the tension on this settlement – and Trump’s attacks on the moderators of the ABC news debate – could have influenced his situation.
“It should have been [worried]But no, it wasn’t, “Moran said.” I was known in ABC, as someone said, and I think I know who it was … that “he has always had a very high opinion of his opinions”, which is unpleasant when someone has been fired, but a fair comment, I guess. “
Since then, Moran has launched his own substitute and is behind his harsh criticism of Miller.
“You see him all the time, spitting the poison and lies, degrading our public speech, debating and using the power of the White House and what has been given to crush,” he told The Bulwark.
“This is very disturbing to me.”
He also pushed again to not check his personal biases at the door.
“Do not sacrifice your citizenship as a journalist and your job is not objective,” Bulwark told Bulwark.
“There is no Olympus of objectivity of the Mount where a class of tangerine of wise people does not have feelings about their society. We are all together. What you have to be is fair and accurate … while very hot, [the post] It is an observation, a precise and certain description. “”
Moran had interviewed Trump in April in an oval office related to the first 100 days of the President. He called the “accidental” task and said he was unusual for Stephanopoulos or “World News Tonight”, David Muir for not managing a presidential interview.
Asked about his policy, Moran described himself as “a Hubert Humphrey Democrat”, adding: “I am great enough to remember and, you know, do practical things that people need decent and defend what is right.”
The Moran Substack Bulletin has already attracted more than 90,000 subscribers, including thousands of paid readers.
He compared it to the “eighteenth-century pamphleterator” and said, “I’m definitely free to talk to me.”
As for whether he regrets the episode that ended his 27 -year career in ABC, Moran was clear: “I don’t think we would never have to regret the truth. And no.”
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