President Trump known as Rep. Max Miller on Monday and raised issues in regards to the Ohio Republican’s reelection marketing campaign following allegations Miller assaulted his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, and their 2-year-old daughter, two sources instantly aware of the decision confirmed to CBS Information.
Miller, who has adamantly denied the allegations, instructed the president he has no plans to depart the race, in line with one of many sources. Miller pointed to his marketing campaign’s inner polling, telling Mr. Trump it confirmed his marketing campaign in a robust place for reelection.
The decision was first reported by Axios.
A supply near the Miller marketing campaign instructed CBS Information the marketing campaign’s inner polling has proven Miller forward, regardless of the allegations which have engulfed the marketing campaign in latest weeks. CBS Information has not independently verified the polling.
In an announcement to CBS Information, Miller stated: “If I dropped out of this race, it will imply we as a nation have fallen so removed from our American values. I cannot validate false claims by eradicating myself simply to please the court docket of public opinion. I’m harmless of the entire allegations which have been attributed to me. I’ve finished effectively representing my constituents’ pursuits. Why would I drop out?”
Moreno, who’s the daughter of GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno of Ohio, has accused Miller in court docket papers and police stories of throwing her in opposition to a wall throughout a February custody alternate and inflicting their daughter to undergo a clavicle fracture and handprint-shaped bruise. She additionally alleged that Miller threw sizzling water at her in 2024 and pointed a gun at her final yr.
Emily Moreno requested a court docket final week to difficulty a restraining order blocking Miller from contacting her lawyer. She alleged in court docket filings that Miller has repeatedly had bodily and verbal altercations along with her lawyer amid an ongoing custody combat over their younger daughter. Miller and Moreno, who had been married between 2022 and 2025, have court-ordered restraining orders in opposition to one another.
Miller has denied the allegations and accused his ex-wife of defaming him and abusing their daughter herself. In a livestream Sunday on X, he prompt the timing of the allegations was meant to impression the continued custody battle. He argued his ex-wife has engaged in a sample of reporting “critical and harmful allegations with completely no proof.”
“These are extremely critical legal accusations, and if these accusations had been true, I might be in jail,” Miller stated Sunday. He pointed to an April letter from county investigators closing a probe into whether or not he bodily abused his daughter in February, calling the allegation “unsubstantiated.”
Stefan Mychajliw, a spokesman for Emily Moreno, known as Miller’s livestream “shameful” and “lie-filled.”
“There’s a documented trove of proof that Miller has a historical past of violent and harmful conduct and no quantity of sufferer shaming will change that,” Mychajliw stated in a assertion. “Miller can lie and spin on X, however he can not accomplish that beneath oath in a court docket of legislation. We’re assured that justice will prevail in court docket.”
Miller is looking for a 3rd time period in Congress. He ran unopposed within the Republican major for his district and is about to face off in opposition to Democratic nominee Brian Poindexter within the basic election in November.
Sen. Moreno stated over the weekend his ex-son-in-law ought to now not serve in Congress over the allegations.
“If there are any fundamental requirements of character required to carry elected workplace, Max Miller fails them,” the senator stated Sunday in a publish on X. “He shouldn’t serve within the Home of Representatives.”
Sen. Moreno stated he had hoped to maintain the matter personal, however that “Max Miller’s more and more erratic and harmful conduct has made that inconceivable.”
The senator stated that Miller “wants critical psychological assist” and known as him a “hazard to my daughter.”
“I consider Max Miller wants to hunt skilled assist to finish the clear sample of abuse he has left in his wake,” Sen. Moreno wrote. “I consider he shouldn’t be free to proceed endangering others till he does.”
On Monday, Mark Zaid, a lawyer for Stephanie Grisham, who served as press secretary within the first Trump administration and dated Miller from 2019-2020, posted on social media that they had filed a restraining order in opposition to Miller.
Zaid is representing Grisham in her lawsuit in opposition to Miller, which facilities on a Washington Put up op-ed from 2021 by which she described being in an abusive relationship with a person she didn’t determine by identify. She additionally wrote about an abusive relationship in her 2021 memoir about her time on the White Home however didn’t reference a reputation in her ebook both. Miller sued Grisham for defamation shortly after the op-ed was printed however later dropped the case.
Grisham wrote within the Put up that Mr. Trump “endorsed my ex’s bid for Congress.”
Miller launched his first congressional marketing campaign in 2022 in opposition to the then-incumbent Republican Anthony Gonzalez, who had voted to question Trump after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. Miller and Graham finally signed a nondisclosure settlement in 2023 with an understanding that every would chorus from publicly disparaging the opposite.
However in July, Grisham sued Miller, alleging he violated that settlement throughout a June 5 interview with Spectrum Information and a social media publish.
“With out query, each allegation ought to be taken critically,” Miller stated in June. “What ought to be famous is that allegation got here out on the identical day as any person’s ebook launch. And the opposite half, what I wish to talk about, is my ex-wife was with me each single day throughout that point of my life in that election, and she or he, in her personal phrases, will let you know that I by no means did any of these issues.”
