Max Miller promotes warning that he should be kept away from people's daughters

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) this week promoted a right-wing journalist's piece that warned he is probably not someone you should let near your daughter or sister.

Miller thanked journalist Michael Tracey on Tuesday on X for being "the only journalist to ask the important questions… approach the story from a place of curiosity, and actually do your research before reporting."

The article — a defense of Miller published the day after Ohio's deadline for Republicans to replace him on the ballot — did not exactly clear his name.

Tracey said he had personally reviewed the court files and evidence Miller's lawyers posted online before reaching his conclusions, he wrote on his Substack.

Miller was "not someone you'd recommend your own daughter / sister / female friend go out with on a date," Tracey wrote.

"Emily may not be entirely wrong that her former husband has various unpleasant character traits," Tracey wrote, "but for the media and political system just to credulously parrot the 'allegation escalation' s—show she's unleashed is completely bonkers."

Miller's ex-wife, Emily Moreno, has accused him in court filings of throwing hot water on her, slamming her against a wall, holding a gun to her head, and fracturing their 2-year-old daughter's collarbone, according to NPR.

Miller has denied the allegations, according to NBC News.

"He is a danger to my daughter, and I hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter," Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) — Emily Moreno's father — said last week.

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham — not the only woman to have accused Miller of abuse — accused him of physical abuse in a 2021 Washington Post op-ed. Miller sued her for defamation, then both parties signed a nondisclosure agreement, according to the Ohio Capital Journal.

Tracey's piece also took aim at the allies who distanced themselves from Miller — including Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who had vouched for him but pulled out of a campaign rally last week.

Miller's own supporters, who organized the event, stated that security threats were the reason for the last-minute cancellation.

Tracey called that explanation a "bogus cover story," blaming Luna's reported discomfort over a separate allegation that Miller had shared what his ex-wife's legal team called child sexual abuse material — a photo, Tracey argued, of a toddler with her shirt off examined during a welfare check.

"…only a sicko would ever have even the slightest notion that this totally innocuous image could possibly constitute 'CSAM,'" Tracey wrote.

The House Ethics Committee opened a formal investigation into Miller on Aug. 4, according to NPR, after he requested the probe himself.

"Only Miller has withstood the pressure so far," Tracey wrote.