Three Women, One Congressman Named Max Miller, and a Party That Looks Away

His own lawyer told the court, he "just can't control himself."

Picture a courtroom in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. A sitting congressman sits at the table, watching his former wife, Emily Moreno, across the room. His own attorney, Larry Zukerman, stands to address the judge. And in a sworn filing days later, Emily swears the room heard Zukerman say the quiet part about his own client out loud. Max Miller “just can’t control himself.”

Read those words again. His own lawyer said them, by Emily’s sworn account. Not a reporter. Not an opponent running against him. The man hired to defend him, describing the person paying his bills.

What the record shows

Emily Moreno told police her husband held a gun to her head. She said he threw hot water on her on the morning she planned to leave. She said their two year old came to her carrying the words “Daddy kill you.” Their little girl turned up with a fractured collarbone and a bruise a police report described as shaped like a handprint.

Then Miller posted a pile of documents online to clear his name, and buried in the pile sat a photo of his own daughter so disturbing her mother’s lawyer called the image possible child sexual abuse material and demanded answers. The House Ethics Committee now says it is reviewing whether Miller committed domestic abuse and used illegal drugs.

Today Miller was interviewed by Jake Tapper:

This is the record. And this is the man expecting to be voted back to Congress.

Emily Moreno’s father is Bernie Moreno, a sitting Republican senator from Ohio. On Tuesday he broke his silence to call his former son-in-law a danger who needs serious psychological help and belongs nowhere near the House of Representatives.

Almost every Republican in Congress is looking the other way.

Here’s my take.

I believe the victims. I’ve handled too many abuse cases over the years.

I believe that guys like Miller belong in jail, not in Congress. And while we’re here, that goes for Trump too, but that’s another post for another time.

When a Republican senator says a Republican congressman should not hold office, and the party looks away, you are watching something rot in real time. Asked on Sunday whether Miller should resign, Donald Trump told reporters…