{"id":26280,"date":"2026-08-03T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=26280"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:02:27","slug":"sen-bernie-moreno-says-former-son-in-law-max-miller-shouldnt-serve-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=26280","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Bernie Moreno Says Former Son-in-Law Max Miller Shouldn\u2019t Serve in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">\n<p><h2 id=\"miller-s-previous-controversies\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 font-editorial text-black-coffee text-mobile-h2 lg:scroll-mt-28 lg:text-h2 mb-4\">Miller\u2019s previous controversies<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Before being elected to the House in 2022, Miller spent six years in the Marine Corps Reserve. He also previously served in Trump\u2019s first-term Administration, including as a senior advisor to the President.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2021\/07\/28\/max-miller-ohio-congress-trump-profile-500187\" target=\"undefined\">Politico<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/investigations\/behind-the-chaos-office-that-vets-trump-appointees-plagued-by-inexperience\/2018\/03\/30\/cde31a1a-28a3-11e8-ab19-06a445a08c94_story.html\" target=\"undefined\"><em>Washington Post<\/em><\/a> have previously reported on Miller\u2019s run-ins with the law as a young adult, including charges, which were later dismissed, for underage drinking, assault, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">From 2019 to 2020, Miller dated Stephanie Grisham, a White House press secretary during Trump\u2019s first-term Administration. Grisham has also accused Miller of abuse: she wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/10\/05\/stephanie-grisham-abusive-relationship-trump-white-house\/\" target=\"undefined\">a 2021 op-ed for the <em>Post<\/em><\/a> and in a memoir the same year, without naming Miller, that her relationship with a White House staffer had \u201cturned abusive\u201d and that she had told Trump himself about her former partner who had \u201canger issues and a violent streak.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">The partner was later identified as Miller, who then <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/congress-cleveland-ohio-lawsuits-5eb9be34df76a8ed9f8cdd35d794e4f5\" target=\"undefined\">sued Grisham for defamation<\/a>, though he voluntarily dropped the suit in 2023 as part of a confidential settlement agreement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miller\u2019s previous controversies Before being elected to the House in 2022, Miller spent six years in the Marine Corps Reserve. He also previously served in Trump\u2019s first-term Administration, including as a senior advisor to the President.\u00a0 Politico and the Washington Post have previously reported on Miller\u2019s run-ins with the law as a young adult, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static.time.com\/v3\/assets\/bltea6093859af6183b\/bltff6c009ed31ed6ac\/6a7078451081abcd6fa02861\/max-miller.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}