Terry Moran Disputes ABC News' Statement After His Exit, Responds to Rumors He Was 'Drunk' When He Wrote the Stephen Miller Message

Terry Moran is breaking his silence on the tweet that got him suspended before being ousted.

If you don’t know, earlier this month, the former ABC News journalist called Donald Trump‘s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller a “world-class hater” on X.

“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism,” he wrote in the now-deleted post.

“Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred only a means to an end, and that end his his own glorification. That’s his spiritual nourishment.”

Now, he’s giving his first interview about it.

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“It wasn’t a drunk tweet,” Terry told the New York Times.

“I was thinking about our country, and what’s happening, and just turning it over in my mind,” he said, adding, “I wrote it, and I said, ‘That’s true.’”

There was no igniting incident that caused him to send the tweet, either. “I don’t think you should ever regret telling the truth. And I don’t,” he said.

ABC News responded to the interview and said that “based on his recent post,” they decided not to renew his contract that was coming up. Terry called this “incorrect.”

Terry, in response, said this is not true and they had an “oral agreement” that his contract was going to be renewed for three more years and they were “bailing” on it.

“We had a deal,” he added.