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Liberal pundits and anti-Trump figures slammed ABC News for suspending longtime correspondent Terry Moran after he ranted on social media about President Donald Trump and Stephen Miller.
“They can clutch their pearls and act mad but this is spot on from Moran,” Tommy Vietor, a co-host of “Pod Save America,” wrote, reacting to Moran’s deleted social media post that referred to both men as “world-class hater[s].”
Moran called out Trump and Miller on social media early Sunday morning and proceeded to delete the post. An ABC News spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement that Moran was suspended, saying, “The post does not reflect the views of ABC News and violated our standards.”
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Liberals defended Terry Moran after ABC News announced the correspondent would be suspended over his rant against President Trump and Stephen Miller. (Photo by Lorenzo Bevilaqua/ABC via Getty Images) )
“MAGA, I thought you all defended free speech and the First Amendment, right? Why are you so upset about Terry Moran’s comments? Stop being such snowflakes, right? Stop looking for safe spaces. Man up,” posted left-wing writer Wajahat Ali, who edits “The Left Hook” Substack.
Joe Walsh, a former GOP congressman who joined the Democratic Party this year, said, “shame on you, @abcnews.”
“Way to NOT stand up for a free press,” he added. In another post on X, Walsh called the suspension of Moran “utter b——-,” and said, “You’re the free press. You don’t do what the authoritarian in the White House tells you to do. Thank you @TerryMoran for having the courage to speak the truth.”
“What Moran reported was demonstrable fact. Indisputable fact. Yet they suspend him. This is the advantage that Trump and his ilk have. They are so beyond the moral pale, so beyond normality, that it is considered impolite, impolitic, or intemperate to describe them as they are,” Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway wrote.
Medhi Hasan, a former MSNBC host who started his own publication, Zeteo, directed his criticism at the Trump officials who defended the president and Miller.
“Snowflakes. Pretend free speech warriors. Getting journalists suspended and calling for their firing. Hypocrites,” Hasan wrote.
Hasan also posted on Bluesky that Moran’s suspension was “‘ironic given Moran went out of his way to not embarrass Trump over the president’s delusion about the doctored MS13 photo, repeatedly saying ‘let’s agree to disagree’ and ‘let’s move on’ but they still got him suspended. You can’t appease these people ever.”
Moran interviewed Trump about his first 100 days in office, during which Trump repeatedly called out Moran and ABC News.
Trump accused Moran of “not being very nice” during an exchange about the deportation of illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
“They’re giving you the big break of a lifetime,” Trump told Moran. “You’re doing the interview, I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you, but that’s OK. I picked you, Terry, but you’re not being very nice.”
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Far-left former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann re-posted Moran’s attacks on Miller and Trump, and called out Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney, which owns ABC News.
“Another coward named @RobertIger responded by letting ABC News suspend Terry indefinitely for telling the truth,” Olbermann wrote. “I have copied Terry’s words here and I encourage everybody, journalists especially, to do the same, or cut and paste what I’ve written, and put it out under your name.”
Others also called on their followers to share Moran’s deleted post.
Ron Filipkowski, editor-in-chief of MeidasTouch, a liberal website, said Moran’s suspension was a product of corporate journalism.
“Independent journalism is when you can write what Terry Moran wrote without getting in trouble. Corporate journalism is when you can’t,” he wrote.
ABC News did not immediately return a request for comment.
Moran’s suspension for airing his thoughts comes as public trust in the media continues to steadily erode. A Gallup survey last year showed a record-low 31 percent of Americans expressed at least a “fair amount” of trust in the media to accurately report the news.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to Moran’s post on X, Sunday, calling it “unhinged and unacceptable.”
