GOP Rep Max Miller pushes back against abuse allegations: ‘I have nothing to hide’
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Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, went live on X on Sunday morning, denying allegations from his ex-wife that he abused her and their daughter.
"I'm not getting out of this race, and I'm winning in November," Miller said at the end of a roughly 17-minute X livestream statement with pictures of his family in the background.
Miller claimed his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, has documented mental health circumstances that might have led to her allegations after their public divorce.
"They frame me as an abuser," Miller said, adding there is "no evidence" against him.
Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, is still facing calls to resign, including from his former father-in-law Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, on Sunday.
"No court or agency has even substantiated any allegation against me," he added. "Every single one of these allegations were already investigated. No criminal charge has ever been filed against me."
Miller released troves of evidence via Dropbox that he says undermines the allegations against him.
Faced with a narrow path to winning control of the U.S. House, Democrats are seeing fresh opportunity in a northeast Ohio congressional seat where the Republican incumbent is facing mounting pressure over allegations that he abused his ex-wife and daughter in a bitter and drawn-out dispute with his former spouse.
Allegations against Miller, a White House advisor during President Donald Trump's first term , have been public for years but have recently drawn increased media scrutiny amid an escalating legal back-and-forth with his ex-wife. That has Democrats sensing Miller could be vulnerable in a district he won two years ago with just over 51% of the vote.
Over the past week, they have called for Miller to resign , requested a congressional ethics investigation and suggested more help could be directed in the fall toward his Democratic opponent, union ironworker Brian Poindexter. Miller has denied the abuse allegations and filed defamation lawsuits against his ex-wife and a second accuser.
After Miller's X livestream, Sen. Bernie Moreno stood by his daughter's allegations and called for Miller to resign and get "serious psychological help."
"Out of concern for the safety of my family, I hoped to keep this matter private but Max Miller’s increasingly erratic and dangerous behavior has made that impossible," Moreno wrote. "As he has admitted privately, Max Miller needs serious psychological help. He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter.
"If there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them.
"He should not serve in the House of Representatives. I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake. I believe he should not be free to continue endangering others until he does."
The deadline to resign and be replaced on the November ballot is Wednesday.
Miller addressed the accusations directly Sunday after concluding that traditional media interviews would not allow him to present his full account. He accused reporters of accepting allegations as fact without adequately examining court records, child welfare findings and communications between him and his former wife, Emily Moreno.
Sen. Bernie Moreno stood by his daughter and called for Rep. Max Miller, his former son-in-law, to resign from Congress and get "serious psychological help." (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Moreno alleged that Miller threw her against a wall, held a gun to her head and threw hot water on her.
Miller's livestream addressed each of those allegations directly, rebutting each.
"She didn't call the police after that," Miller said of the assault allegation. "She didn't go to the hospital. Ladies and gentlemen, do you want to know what she did? She went straight to a child's birthday party."
On the holding a gun to her head, Miller rejected it on the basis that no criminal account has been made of that serious crime.
"She has also claimed I held a gun to her head while standing over our child because a light wasn't turned off: That never happened," Miller said. "It is absolutely outrageous. And two days after that allegedly occurred, ladies and gentlemen, she asked me to come over for dinner and to stay the night."
Miller added the Dropbox documents — paid for by Miller and produced by his lawyers, he wrote on X after their release — provide that evidence.
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Emily Moreno and Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, are now divorced and exchanging public accusations of abuse and mental health issues. (Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP)
"I can literally walk you all through this," he continued in the livestream. "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. And if these accusations were true, I would be in jail.
"My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
The hot water incident reported in the media was just "horseplay," according to Miller.
"Now, the boiling water story the media has run with: That story is about an incident in June of 2024 while we were still married, and here's the truth — and this is the absolute truth: It was horseplay in our kitchen," he said "I sprayed water at her from the sprayer attached to our kitchen sink. Tap water, which does not reach boiling temperature or scalding.
"From that day, you could even see my text messages from that day show she was laughing during it. She never sought or received any medical attention ever. And it was two months after this incident, that Oct. 7 recording that she told me I was a very kind person who she didn't think would ever hurt her physically.
"I mean, ladies and gentlemen, this doesn't add up. Our…
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