WASHINGTON — Ohio Rep. Max Miller is mired in a messy custody battle together with his ex-wife that has concerned a police investigation into their 2-year-old’s damaged collarbone, courtroom paperwork reveal.
The previous Trump aide had filed for divorce from Emily Moreno in 2024, not lengthy after the beginning of their daughter and initially agreed to an association the place the congressman ponied up $2,500 in baby help every month.
However final month, Emily, who’s the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), moved to overtake their shared parenting settlement, citing issues about his conduct.
Miller “commonly speaks to me in an inappropriate, aggressive and demeaning method, which isn’t in the very best curiosity of our baby,” she wrote in courtroom paperwork first reported by TMZ.
“[Miller] has performed harmful bodily conduct within the baby’s presence,” she added. “I don’t imagine it’s in our baby’s greatest curiosity for [Miller] and me to collectively decide for her.”
“I worry that trying to make joint choices — and the dearth of cooperation from [Miller] in doing so — will trigger direct hurt to” their daughter.
That drew the congressman’s authorized wrath. Miller countered that his ex-wife’s conduct has “change into more and more confrontational, irrational and considerably weird.”
He then alleged that she “repeated and unsubstantiated allegations of abuse of” their daughter to native police and household providers.
Particularly, police regarded into issues about their daughter’s damaged collarbone and bruised shoulder whereas the congressman was watching her.
The Ohio rep claimed that native authorities investigated the matter and “apparently cleared” him, however made certain he had a booster seat put in correctly in his automobile.
However an investigation into attainable baby abuse is technically nonetheless listed as lively by native police. And the police haven’t publicly divulged any conclusions from the probe.
Miller pushed the courtroom to mandate that each he and his ex-wife bear psychological evaluations to find out custody.
”If Mr. Miller is searching for a person with abusive conduct, he ought to look within the mirror and previous the veneers,” Emily’s lawyer Andrew Zashin mentioned in a press release.
Extra lately, Miller moved to subpoena his ex-father-in-law, Bernie, a populist ally of Vice President JD Vance and former luxurious auto mogul.
“Mr. Miller has already misplaced in courtroom, Zashin added, “His determined and completely false allegations towards his ex-wife regarding their daughter have been thrown out of courtroom.”
“These baseless claims are nothing greater than a cynical try by Mr. Miller to weaponize the authorized system towards his ex-wife, a robust, loving mom who refuses to undergo his coercive management.”
Miller, who was elected to the Home in 2022, did a number of stints within the first Trump administration, together with a Treasury Division function, serving as an affiliate director of the Presidential Personnel Workplace, and as a particular assistant to the president.
The second-term congressman beforehand had a nasty defamation battle with former White Home press secretary Stephanie Grisham, his ex-girlfriend, over her e book detailing their allegedly poisonous relationship.
She publicly alleged that her relationship with an unnamed White Home staffer “turned abusive” and “had change into violent.” Miller voluntarily dismissed that swimsuit in 2023.
When requested for a remark, Miller’s staff referred The Submit to his lawyer’s assertion.
“The one one who has been granted a restraining order by a courtroom of regulation is Rep. Max Miller,” an lawyer for the congressman mentioned in a press release first given to TMZ.
“The proof introduced towards his ex-wife Ms. Moreno was sufficient to persuade a decide that she was a menace to the Congressman.”
Restraining orders are sometimes given in divorce or custody battles, requiring the ex-spouses to steer clear of one another till there’s extra consideration by the courts.
