Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller tried to use a massive document dump to prove his ex-wife was lying about him. Instead, the Trump-backed congressman may have exposed another secret of his own.
Miller, 43, is refusing to abandon his re-election campaign despite facing disturbing domestic abuse allegations involving his former wife, Emily Moreno, and their 2-year-old daughter.
On Sunday, the Republican lawmaker posted a link to a Dropbox folder containing hundreds of pages of documents and excerpts from conversations that he apparently recorded without Moreno’s knowledge.
The recordings were meant to bolster Miller’s claim that his ex-wife — the daughter of Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno — fabricated allegations against him during their bitter custody dispute.
But one conversation appeared to reveal that Miller had been injecting himself with testosterone.
In an August 2024 recording, Moreno, now 32, confronted Miller about what she described as a possible drug problem.
“First it was weed, then I found needles next to your bed,” she told him. “I took a picture of it. You can try to deny it to me.”
Miller repeatedly denied that she found a needle beside their bed or that she had found one at all. During the same conversation, he also denied secretly recording her.
The couple separated that month and finalized their divorce the following year.
However, in another recording from September 2024, Miller appeared to acknowledge that he had used needles to administer testosterone replacement therapy, commonly called TRT.
“I told you I was doing TRT and that I had stopped,” Miller said. “Testosterone replacement therapy. You knew I was doing that, right?”
Moreno responded that Miller had told her he had only used the treatment several times.
“So when I found a needle, I had no idea what the f— it was,” she said.
Moreno added that she had repeatedly asked whether he was still using testosterone and claimed Miller told her he had stopped.
A spokesperson for Miller did not respond to a request from the Daily Beast seeking clarification about his testosterone use.
The revelation comes at a politically dangerous moment for the congressman, whose carefully planned attempt at damage control has instead placed even more scrutiny on his private conduct.
Moreno has alleged in court that Miller poured hot water on her, beat her, pointed a firearm at her head and may have broken their toddler’s collarbone.
Miller has forcefully denied all allegations of abuse.
He has sued Moreno for defamation, while she has filed for a restraining order against him.
During a roughly 20-minute livestream Sunday, Miller insisted he had never harmed their daughter.
“Let me begin with the most painful accusation of all: I have never abused our daughter,” Miller said while sitting in front of a blurred background that appeared to contain children’s drawings.
“This isn’t about defending myself,” he continued. “I’m speaking up as a father, trying to protect our daughter.”
Miller also accused Moreno of lying and suggested, without publicly presenting evidence, that she had mental health problems.
He questioned why she continued interacting with him after the alleged incidents.
“If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?” Miller asked. “Would she have invited me to spend an afternoon at the playground with her and our daughter?”
Minutes after Miller’s livestream, Sen. Bernie Moreno publicly broke with his former son-in-law and called for him to be removed from Congress.
The Republican senator said Miller had failed to meet the “basic standards of character” expected of an elected official.
“I believe Max Miller needs to seek professional help to end the clear pattern of abuse he has left in his wake,” Moreno wrote on X.
“I believe he should not be free to continue endangering others until he does.”
The statement was a dramatic escalation from the senator, who had largely avoided publicly discussing his daughter’s divorce and the allegations surrounding Miller.
The current allegations are not the first time a woman has accused Miller of physical aggression.
Miller rose to prominence while serving in the White House during President Donald Trump’s first administration. During that period, he had a relationship with former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.
Grisham later accused Miller of pushing her and slapping her after she confronted him about allegedly cheating.
Miller denied those claims and sued Grisham for defamation over allegations included in her book. The lawsuit was eventually settled.
Grisham is now suing Miller over comments he made during an interview this summer.
Miller has remained closely connected to Trump, who endorsed his congressional campaigns and attended his wedding at the president’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey.
Trump addressed the controversy Sunday but stopped short of condemning Miller.
“I mean, so far, it’s accusations,” Trump said at Joint Base Andrews, according to The New York Times. “We’ll look at it.”
Miller has made clear that he does not plan to leave the race.
That decision could create another political headache for Republicans. According to the Times, Miller is only about one percentage point ahead of his Democratic opponent, despite representing a district that was considered reliably Republican in 2024.
What began as Miller’s attempt to publicly destroy his ex-wife’s credibility has now become an even larger scandal — one involving secretly recorded conversations, admitted testosterone injections, dueling lawsuits and abuse allegations so serious that a Republican senator is demanding his own former son-in-law be pushed out of Congress.
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