ABC News suspends journalist after calling Trump and adviser ‘world-class’ haters
Terry Moran to be evaluated after now deleted post said Stephen Miller is ‘richly endowed with capacity for hatred’
ABC News has suspended its senior national correspondent after he described top White House aide Stephen Miller as “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred” on social media.
In a now deleted post, Terry Moran, who recently conducted an interview with Donald Trump, said that the president and his deputy chief of staff, Miller, were both “world-class” haters.
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