This Sleazoid MAGA Congressman May Just Have Turned a Red Seat Blue

Ohio’s Max Miller is fighting off (and denying) some sickening allegations. Meanwhile, his Democratic challenger seems like the real deal.

I’m betting there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Max Miller. Just another take-a-number MAGA Congressman. Except that he’s not. He’s a personal favorite of Donald Trump, having worked in the Trump 1.0 White House; he accompanied Trump on that cynical June 2020 stroll to St. John’s Church so he could hold a Bible in front of the cameras. He’s the soon-to-be-former son-in-law of Ohio GOP Senator Bernie Moreno, another MAGA dead-ender. That “soon-to-be-former” should have told you that there’s trouble in Trumpy paradise: Miller and the senator’s daughter, Emily, are in some extremely ugly divorce proceedings, apparently still ongoing. And oddly, he’s the nephew of the respected foreign policy analyst Aaron David Miller (our sympathies to him).

And now, he’s something else: in trouble in Ohio’s 7th congressional district, which leans Republican and which Trump carried by double digits in 2024. Stories have been popping lately that have detailed Emily Moreno’s allegations that Miller has gotten physically abusive with her—and even that Miller injured their then-two-year-old daughter, who, according to a recent Mother Jones report, returned to her mother from a night at dad’s place with a broken collarbone.

Miller denies all these charges vehemently. But they sure have roiled a race to which no one was paying a lick of attention. Indeed, the needle has nudged close enough to the red zone that Miller felt compelled on Sunday morning to release, via X, some documents that he claimed exculpated him entirely. He followed it up with a nearly 20-minute video he posted Sunday (“I have never abused our daughter,” he said, even alleging that day care workers may have harmed her).

Not to be outdone, just after Miller posted his material, Senator Moreno posted a statement on X that … well, what did he say, exactly? He didn’t explicitly call........

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