Grilling on CNN found an embattled lawmaker asserting it would be “very easy” for multiple women to falsely accuse him of violence while decrying his congressional ex-father-in-law for lasting silence.
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Over the weekend, Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno (R) issued a statement calling for Ohio Rep. Max Miller, his former son-in-law, to resign as details about a legal battle with the lawmaker and ex-wife, Emily Moreno, came to light with allegations of domestic violence against her and their young daughter.
Tuesday, Miller joined CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” as the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation regarding the allegations — welcomed by the congressman — where he cast aspersions on the senator for waiting to comment on the allegations from two years ago at the same time he dismissed how two other women independently spoke to alleged violence.
The interview opened with the anchor asking about whether his guest actually kept a blue bunny doll his daughter needed to sleep away from her for days. In response, Miller said, “… if that were true, that would be incredibly disturbing and that the senator would be right. However, he has taken two years to publicly acknowledge — for me to resign from my seat. Why is that, Jake?”
“If he truly believed … I’m a father to a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. I believe that you’re also a father to children. And I don’t know if you’re actually a father to a daughter … what I can tell you is, is that if my daughter came to me and she said, ‘My ex-husband did X, Y and Z,’ and then I waited because I was nervous that a political livestream was going to expose a deeply and personal embarrassing matter to the senator, for him to take that action. Sadly, this has nothing to do with my daughter, Jake, and that’s what this entire thing is about,” claimed the congressman who released a video in response to Moreno’s statement.
Tapper presented the possibility that the senator’s daughter asked him to remain quiet to avoid “more of a spectacle,” to which Miller replied, “You could say that. But also, dealing with this as a private family matter, then why couldn’t we have had a conversation a year ago? If Mr. Moreno felt this was the case, why do we now have to be here on national TV exposing all of our personal family drama?”
As the lawmaker wondered why Moreno hadn’t come to him privately to tell him he should drop out of Congress, Tapper said, “I don’t know, but it’s not really the issue, though, right?”
Later in the interview, after the anchor discussed police reports that included statements attributed to the child given to Children and Family Services alleging she said, “Daddy angry” and “Daddy’s house is scary,” on top of an alleged remark to Emily Moreno, “Daddy kill you,” Tapper brought up the accusations that Miller threw a pot of boiling water at his then-wife and that he fractured their daughter’s collarbone.
He then made note of two other women leveling allegations of “violent behavior.”
“Politico published an article in 2021 that said you, when you were in high school,” said Tapper who quoted, “you ‘… pushed a girl out of the dorm of his room and she fell down some stairs after he became enraged when she resisted his attempts to touch her, according to three people who were there and many more who heard about the incident in the aftermath.'”
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As Miller interjected his desire for that woman to go on the record before insisting he was 13-years-old at the time, Tapper continued, “Okay, hold, hold on, because I’m not done with the list of women that have accused you of violence.”
The host turned to former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, who dated Miller from 2019-2020 before penning an op-ed in 2021 about the alleged abusive relationship, which prompted a defamation suit from Miller he ultimately dropped. A countersuit followed from Grisham, who accused the congressman of violating a nondisclosure agreement.
Tapper said, “She accused you of being abusive and having a violent streak. She wrote in her book, ‘I could do nothing right by him. I would wake up every morning shaking with anxiety about his mood that day … I had seen his temper before, and it had scared me.’ She has recently filed a temporary restraining order against you in a defamation case. And now there are these claims from your ex-wife, Emily Moreno. And I guess the question is, are all three of these women who don’t know each other, are all three of them lying?”
“Yes, it’s very easy. And I can tell you why,” said Miller, who went on to compare himself to President Donald Trump, who in 2016, “faced the most extreme allegations in the world that hit him day after day after day. And people in the media very much like yourself and others said that he would have no shot at winning, that he should not be the president of the United States. But guess what? He stayed in, and he was resilient.”
The congressman’s position that the allegations were hearsay was checked by Tapper, who reminded that each allegation came firsthand from the purported victims.
The entire interview can be viewed below via CNN’s YouTube channel:
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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