A former ABC News senior correspondent has publicly acknowledged what conservative media critics have argued for years, that the network operates as a liberal institution where not a single journalist backed Donald Trump.
Terry Moran, who spent decades at ABC News before the network declined to renew his contract in June 2025, made the admission Friday during an appearance on "The Fifth Column" podcast. When co-host Michael C. Moynihan asked him point-blank, "Is ABC News a liberal institution?", Moran's answer was immediate and unequivocal.
"Yes," Moran said. He then offered what he called an explanation rather than an excuse: a newsroom that lacked anyone who saw the country the way tens of millions of Trump voters did.
As Fox News Digital reported, Moran told Moynihan that the bias stemmed from a workforce drawn almost entirely from one side of the political divide.
"I think, like a lot of mainstream media, it's because of lack of viewpoint diversity. That was one of the problems in covering Trump. Nobody had voted for him."
Nobody. Not one reporter, not one producer, not one anchor, at least by Moran's account. A network that covers a president elected twice could not find a single employee in its news division who had cast a ballot for him.
Moran described himself as a lonely voice inside ABC pushing for balanced Trump coverage. He said he circulated internal emails urging colleagues to treat the administration fairly.
"I sent out these 'Hey, we should be fair to Trump' internal emails. I heard from people, engineers, maybe the occasional producer, who said 'Thank you.'"
The detail is telling. The people who thanked him were not correspondents, not editors, not executives, they were engineers and the stray producer. The journalists who shape what millions of Americans see each night apparently had no interest in the message.
Moran also drew a line between objectivity and fairness, rejecting the former as a realistic standard while defending his own track record on the latter.
"There is no such thing as objectivity in journalism. I'd put the work I did at ABC News out there as excruciatingly fair."
That claim sits uneasily beside the record that ended his time at the network.
ABC News cut ties with Moran in June 2025 after he published, then deleted, a social media post describing President Trump and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as "world-class haters." The network's spokesperson left no ambiguity about the reason.
"We are at the end of our agreement with Terry Moran and based on his recent post, which was a clear violation of ABC News policies, we have made the decision to not renew. At ABC News, we hold all of our reporters to the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism, and we remain committed to delivering straightforward, trusted journalism."
An unnamed ABC News staffer who spoke to Fox News Digital described the situation as regrettable but unavoidable. The staffer said Moran had clashed internally with liberal colleagues, and that the network moved fast once the post surfaced.
"It's just sad honestly. It's sad for him, a long-time colleague, friend, a good person, family man... It's just unfortunate, but there was no alternative, especially in these times."
The same staffer added, in blunter terms, that ABC took the matter seriously and acted swiftly to keep the controversy from lingering.
Moran's departure came shortly after a combative Oval Office interview with Trump marking the president's first 100 days back in office. When Moran pressed Trump on questions related to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump cut him off.
"I don't trust you. I don't trust a lot of people. I don't trust you. Look at you. You're so happy to do the interview, and then you start hitting me with these fake questions."
The exchange took place less than six weeks before ABC ended Moran's contract. The timeline suggests the relationship between the correspondent and the network was already strained well before the deleted post gave ABC a clean policy reason to part ways.
Not everyone accepted Moran's admission at face value. David Bozell, president of Media Research, told Fox News Digital that Moran was less a whistleblower than a participant in the very bias he now describes.
"Terry Moran spent years proving ABC News is a liberal institution, including smearing Trump as a 'Fuhrer.'"
Bozell went further, arguing that Moran's podcast appearance amounted to a convenient rewrite of his own record.
"Now he admits the newsroom has zero pro-MAGA journalists and lives in a media bubble. Spare us the newfound candor. Moran was not an innocent observer of the bias he now acknowledges. He was one of its most enthusiastic practitioners."
Bozell's critique lands on a real contradiction. Moran now presents himself as someone who fought for fairness inside a lopsided newsroom. But the post that ended his career, calling the sitting president and his deputy chief of staff "world-class haters", does not read like the work of a man committed to balance. It reads like a journalist who shared the newsroom's assumptions and simply got caught saying so publicly.
ABC's spokesperson statement insisted the network holds reporters to "the highest standards of objectivity, fairness and professionalism." Moran himself rejected objectivity as a realistic goal in journalism. And his description of the newsroom, one where nobody voted for a president who won the Electoral College twice, suggests the network's standards are aspirational at best.
Moran had made a similar acknowledgment shortly after leaving ABC, noting that the scarcity of Trump supporters inside the network prevented its news division from hearing large parts of the country. The podcast appearance expanded on that earlier concession with more specific detail, the internal emails, the engineers who thanked him, the wall of indifference from the editorial staff.
Fox News Digital reached out to ABC News for further comment. No immediate response was noted.
When a veteran correspondent admits his own network couldn't find a single Trump voter in the building, the debate over media bias stops being a debate. It becomes a confession, and the only remaining question is whether anyone at the network plans to do something about it.
