Emily Moreno, wife of MAGA Congressman Max Miller of Ohio, accuses him of drug use – South Arkansas Sun

A MAGA congressman is accused of drug use by his estranged wife amid a bitter divorce and custody battle.

Max Miller, a former Donald Trump aide and later Republican congressman from Ohio, disclosed in court documents he filed against Emily Moreno Miller that he was accused of “drug use.” Cleveland.com first reported on the matter.

Miller, 35, told the newspapers that his 30-year-old wife, from whom he was separated while he was at work, left their home in the Cleveland suburb of Rocky River and moved into a $650,000 house in neighboring Westlake that her father had secretly bought for her, taking their daughter and her personal belongings with her.

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Then, he claimed, Moreno Miller used allegations of drug use to prevent him from spending time alone with their 10-month-old daughter, Ruth, whose birth he had announced to Congress on his Twitter account. In the papers, Miller said he took a voluntary drug test to prove he was clean. His lawyer reiterated to the Daily Beast that Miller does not use drugs and passed the test, and declined further comment.

Miller also claimed that Moreno Miller claimed he “spoke ill of her family.” In a MAGA twist, Moreno Miller is the daughter of Bernie Moreno, the Trump-backed candidate for the Ohio Senate seat currently held by Democrat Sherrod Brown. The papers did not specify who Miller was alleged to have disparaged.

The papers portrayed Miller's version of a bitter split after just two years of marriage between a seemingly powerful MAGA couple, both with multi-million pound family fortunes. Moreno Miller appears to have failed to respond to any of his allegations in court and has no lawyer on file. He had the documents served on her by a bailiff, underlining how bitter the split is.

Miller claimed his estranged wife did not allow him to see their daughter unless she was present and “baselessly claimed” he was trying to abscond with the baby. When he took a drug test and disclosed the negative result to his estranged wife and her attorney, he was “stonewalled,” he claimed. He called any suggestion that he could not care for their daughter or “physically protect” her “absolutely absurd” and testified that Moreno Miller left him in charge of their daughter when she went to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July before absconding. Her father was one of the speakers.

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He also claimed that she had “THC drinks” in her refrigerator, which would not be illegal in Ohio, where marijuana was legalized for recreational use by vote in 2023. He also accused her of attempting “extortion.” She allegedly told him in early August that he could not see the baby unless he paid the nanny and gave Moreno Miller sole custody.

And he described in detail how he told her he would not pay the insurance on her $140,000 Mercedes – which she had bought from one of her father's car dealerships – and the fees on her Washington DC condo, and she then told him his lawyers would have to talk to her lawyers if he wanted to see their child.

The divorce papers were filed two years to the day after the couple were married at Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Miller, scion of a multimillion-dollar real estate dynasty from Ohio, and Moreno, one of five children of Bernie Moreno, a Colombian immigrant who made millions as a car dealer and donated to Democrats before fully embracing Trump.

Miller currently has two court cases pending. In the other, he is attempting to sue his ex-partner, former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, for defamation after she accused him of domestic violence. He is alleged to have shoved and hit her when she accused him of cheating on her with an unnamed partner.

Moreno Miller's father declined to comment. “Bernie is very sad that their marriage ended the way it did, but it is a private family matter and he will have no further comment,” a spokesman for Bernie Moreno's Senate campaign, Reagan McCarthy, said in a statement to Cleveland.com.