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Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Meet the ABC reporter Trump hand-picked for his interview
Donald Trump told ABC News' Terry Moran that he personally selected the journalist for his first interview with the network since his defamation lawsuit because he'd 'never heard of' the veteran reporter. Moran, the network's senior national correspondent and former Nightline co-anchor, was hand-picked by the president, he claimed, during an interview that often saw Trump dismantling Moran's line of questioning , his Disney-owned network, and the 'fake news' media itself. In a heated moment where Moran attempted to fact-check Trump , the president revealed that the choice wasn't exactly a compliment. 'They're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you to do the interview because frankly, I'd never heard of you, but you're not being very nice,' Trump said. The comments came as the two sparred over deported El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia and evidence that he was a member of the MS-13 gang and tariffs. While the president claimed to not know who Moran is, the 65-year-old father-of-four is an award-winning journalist with an apparent affinity for Trump. Moran is currently a senior national news correspondent for ABC News, a network he has been with since 1997. Born in Chicago , Moran graduated from Lawrence University in 1982 with a degree in English. He moved to Washington, DC , and began his career in journalism writing for The New Republic. Moran then transitioned to broadcast and covered high profile criminal trials for Court TV, including O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers. He broke into politics by covering Bill Clinton's presidency and Al Gore's presidential campaign. Moran's ABC News biography claims it was from his reporting on the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Decision that the former vice president learned he had lost the election. In 2004, Moran was named anchor of World News Tonight Sunday, a position he held until joining Nightline a year later. As Nightline co-anchor, he sat down for nine one-on-one interviews with Barack Obama. He has received several awards including the White House Correspondents Association's Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential reporting on deadline and a George Foster Peabody Award. Moran became the network's London-based chief foreign correspondent in 2014, but came back to the U.S. six years later to cover politics. While abroad, he continued to weigh in on U.S. politics and claimed that in 2016 he believed Trump would win the election. 'I told colleagues Trump would win. (People thought I was crazy.)' he said on X after Trump's 2024 win. 'This year I said it felt like Trump would win again. Why? Not polls (it seemed to me they never really caught up with the constant growth of the Trump Movement.) 'But because almost everywhere I looked—in my own neighborhood, out on the campaign trail, on social media and old media—you could see and sense that millions of *new converts* were joining this movement.' In 2019, he told his alma matter, that covering politics during the Trump presidency is 'like drinking from a fire hose, it's hard to keep your perspective.' Moran shares one child with his ex-wife, Karen Osler. He married his second wife Johanna Cox, in 2015, and the couple have three children together. Notably, Cox is the sole winner of the 2008 CW fashion reality competition show Stylista. Her prize included a year-long position at Elle magazine. In December, Moran shared a picture of himself and his daughter with Joe and Jill Biden.
Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Who is Terry Moran? Meet the 'nobody' ABC reporter Trump picked and then eviscerated during new interview
Donald Trump told ABC News' Terry Moran that he personally selected the journalist for his first interview with the network since his defamation lawsuit because he'd 'never heard of' the veteran reporter. Moran, the network's senior national correspondent and former Nightline co-anchor, was hand-picked by the president, he claimed, during an interview that often saw Trump dismantling Moran's line of questioning, his Disney-owned network, and the 'fake news' media itself. In a heated moment where Moran attempted to fact-check Trump, the president revealed that the choice wasn't exactly a compliment. 'They're giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you to do the interview because frankly, I'd never heard of you, but you're not being very nice,' Trump said. The comments came as the two sparred over deported El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia and evidence that he was a member of the MS-13 gang and tariffs. While the president claimed to not know who Moran is, the 65-year-old father-of-four is an award-winning journalist with an apparent affinity for Trump. Moran is currently a senior national news correspondent for ABC News, a network he has been with since 1997. Born in Chicago, Moran graduated from Lawrence University in 1982 with a degree in English. He moved to Washington, DC, and began his career in journalism writing for The New Republic. Moran then transitioned to broadcast and covered high profile criminal trials for Court TV, including O.J. Simpson and the Menendez brothers. He broke into politics by covering Bill Clinton's presidency and Al Gore's presidential campaign. Moran's ABC News biography claims it was from his reporting on the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Decision that the former vice president learned he had lost the election. In 2004, Moran was named anchor of World News Tonight Sunday, a position he held until joining Nightline a year later. As Nightline co-anchor, he sat down for nine one-on-one interviews with Barack Obama. He has received several awards including the White House Correspondents Association's Merriman Smith Award for excellence in presidential reporting on deadline and a George Foster Peabody Award. Moran became the network's London-based chief foreign correspondent in 2014, but came back to the U.S. six years later to cover politics. While abroad, he continued to weigh in on U.S. politics and claimed that in 2016 he believed Trump would win the election. 'I told colleagues Trump would win. (People thought I was crazy.)' he said on X after Trump's 2024 win. 'This year I said it felt like Trump would win again. Why? Not polls (it seemed to me they never really caught up with the constant growth of the Trump Movement.) 'But because almost everywhere I looked—in my own neighborhood, out on the campaign trail, on social media and old media—you could see and sense that millions of *new converts* were joining this movement.' In 2019, he told his alma matter, that covering politics during the Trump presidency is 'like drinking from a fire hose, it's hard to keep your perspective.' Moran shares one child with his ex-wife, Karen Osler. He married his second wife Johanna Cox, in 2015, and the couple have three children together. Notably, Cox is the sole winner of the 2008 CW fashion reality competition show Stylista. Her prize included a year-long position at Elle magazine. In December, Moran shared a picture of himself and his daughter with Joe and Jill Biden.
