Ex-ABC News reporter Terry Moran bashed 60 Minutes for being too cozy and not pushing back enough on President Donald Trump during his interview on Sunday night, insisting it needed to “stand up” to some of the president’s claims. By not doing so, Moran said, the program played right into Trump’s “authoritarian” hands.
Moran shared his displeasure with 60 Minutes correspondent Norah O’Donnell, without mentioning her by name, during an appearance on CNN News Central on Monday afternoon.
“It was an interview without a lot of pushback. It was an interview that let him carry on,” Moran said.
Co-host Boris Sanchez asked what topics Moran would have called Trump on.
Moran did not have a specific example.
He admitted the president is a “very tough interview,” because he is “spewing a lot of stuff that isn’t true.” Moran added you “shouldn’t” get into a fight with him, but it was important to push back on at least some of his claims, if only to keep him in check.
“If you condone his falsehoods, that empowers him. Every authoritarian in the book does this, and you can look it up,” Moran said.”So I do think at some point you have to stand up for what is true — even at the risk of displeasing Trump or your bosses.”
Earlier in the segment, Moran had taken issue with Trump referring to New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani as a “communist,” because Mamdani identifies as a democratic socialist. Moran said that was a golden opportunity for O’Donnell to push back on Trump.
Moran also wondered if Bari Weiss being the new editor-in-chief of CBS News was “part of the equation” that led to Trump’s interview. He said Weiss, who was running The Free Press before it was bought by Paramount Skydance last month, has been “very kind” to Trump in the past, and that may have contributed to what he considered a soft interview.
His appearance on CNN comes a few months after ABC let Moran go as its senior national correspondent. Moran’s exit stemmed from him ripping Trump and White House advisor Stephen Miller, with Moran saying Miller was “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.” He has since moved over to Substack, where he has 113,000 subscribers.
Watch a part of his CNN segment above.
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