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The cost of criticizing the Trump administration's most notorious member

Lindsay Beyerstein June 22, 2025

Terry Moran is out at ABC thanks to a White House pressure campaign. Donald Trump campaigned on free speech, but in office, he persecutes media companies with frivolous lawsuits and threats of punitive regulation. ABC is cowed. The broadcaster announced that they weren’t renewing Moran’s contract, because they felt his deleted tweet about deputy chief of staff Steven Miller being a hater violated their standards of objectivity and professionalism.

“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater,” Moran tweeted and later deleted, early Sunday. “You can see this just by looking at him, because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.”

“ABC is gonna have to answer for what their so-called journalist put out on Twitter ... we have reached out to ABC,” said Leavitt. “They have said they will be taking action, so we will see what they do ... hopefully this journalist will either be suspended or terminated."

No doubt the White House is still mad at Moran for exposing Trump’s demented conviction that the labelled symbols M-S-1-3 on a photograph of deported Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia were tattoos.

Miller is, objectively, a hater. The mainstream media says so all the time. “[Miller] is extremely hostile to immigrants. He has always, as far back as high school, rejected the idea that immigration is a net positive for America, and he's been very consistent in that,” Jonathan Swan, a White House reporter for The New York Times said on the Daily podcast.

“This is all I care about,” Miller said of his uncontrollable zeal to eject migrants during Trump’s first term. “I don’t have a family. I don’t have anything else. This is my life.” That was before he met his wife Katie on a junket to watch children being separated from their parents at the border. Now, Miller has a partner who bragged that “DHS sent me to the border to see the separations for myself – to try to make me more compassionate – but it didn’t work.”

Anyone who has watched one of Steve Miller’s twitchy podium-pounding rants knows the truth. Miller repeatedly recommended Camp of the Saints, a polemic about a black giant called Turd Eater whose minions rape a white woman to death.

Trump reportedly said that if Miller had his way, there’d only be 100 million Americans and they’d all look like Steve. It’s hard to think of a human being whose hateration is better documented than Miller’s. It’s a cornerstone of his public image. The MAGA base loves his Peewee German persona.

There is a vast literature documenting Miller’s hatefulness stretching all the way back to elementary school. Moreover, he’s the architect of an immigration policy that sends innocent people to foreign torture prisons and rounds up random brown guys outside Home Depot for looking foreign. He slanders judges who rule against the Trump administration as communists and rails against the enemy within.

ABC claims that Moran showed a lack of objectivity in his blunt and critical assessment of Miller. In fact, Moran’s analysis of character and motive is in line with all the Trump/Musk breakup pieces that dominated straight news coverage for days.

What makes this person tick? What role do they play in the administration? How does their ideology inform their actions?

These are analytical questions that lie at the heart of journalism.

Disallow them and you reduce journalists to stenographers who merely transcribe what powerful people say. Moran erred only in taking the tweet down.

Now read: So much for Trump's big promise to America

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is now being raked over the coals in response to her call for ABC to censor a journalist who criticized President Donald Trump and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

In a Sunday tweet, Keavitt posted a screenshot of a now-deleted post by ABC News' Terry Moran — who — and called on his employer to punish him over his "unhinged and unacceptable" critique of the administration. Moran opined in the post that Miller was not "the brains behind Trumpism" but a "world-class hater" whose "bile" is his "spiritual nourishment." He then said that Trump was also a "world-class hater" whose own "spiritual nourishment" was "his own glorification."

"We have reached out to @ABC to inquire about how they plan to hold Terry accountable," Leavitt tweeted, while mentioning the network's official handle on X.

Leavitt's tweet was quickly met with widespread condemnation, prompting Daily Beast columnist Julia Davis to ask: "What happened to the First Amendment?" Cybersecurity expert Robert Graham opined that Leavitt's call for ABC to "censor" Moran reflected that Trump's second term was "not the 'free speech presidency,' but quite the opposite." And Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) First Amendment litigator J.T. Morris observed that criticizing people in power is "as American as apple pie – and vital for freedom."

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"That's why the First Amendment protects it from thin-skinned officials who would shut it down," he added. "Hopefully, ABC responds with 'get bent.'"

"[Moran] shouldn't have taken the post down," tweeted Never Trump conservative attorney George Conway. "He's a reporter. And he was reporting facts."

Former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann also weighed in, saying that Trump and Miller were "everything Moran described." Calling Leavitt "anti-democracy" and "anti-American," Olbermann added that Leavitt "needs to stick to her lane," which he characterized as "covering up the emergence of a dictatorship."

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