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Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing June 4.Tom Williams \/ CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images file<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be providing the committee all necessary documents needed for a detail examination. The accusations continue to change, but my facts stay the same. I am looking forward to my colleagues reading everything for themselves,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
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Rep. Miller vows to stay in re-election race amid abuse allegations<\/p>\n
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Hours later, the Ethics Committee said it had launched an investigation<\/a> into whether Miller may have engaged in \u201cdomestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use in violation of the Code of Official Conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n Miller denied multiple allegations in a livestream on X over the weekend, saying: \u201cI have never abused our daughter. … No court, no agency, has ever substantiated any allegation of abuse against me. No criminal charge has ever been filed against me.\u201d<\/p>\n He also released several audio recordings and transcripts that he said proved his case. In one of them, Miller\u2019s ex-wife, Emily Moreno, is identified as telling Miller that she believes he has a drug problem and that she had found needles by his bed \u2014 allegations he denied to her. Another transcript identifies Miller telling Moreno that he was injecting himself with testosterone.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Moreno, Stefan Mychajliw, accused Miller of lying \u201cabout his ex-wife to desperately try to save his political career\u201d in an earlier statement. \u201cThere is a documented trove of evidence that Miller has a history of violent and dangerous behavior and no amount of victim shaming will change that,\u201d Mychajliw said.<\/p>\n An ethics investigation is likely to take weeks, if not months, to complete. The House is out on its August recess and will return in September.<\/p>\n But the fact that he made the request suggests Miller does not plan to drop out of his race for re-election, despite a declaration<\/a> from his former father-in-law, Sen. Bernie Moreno, a fellow Ohio Republican, that he is not fit to serve in Congress. <\/p>\n Bernie Moreno issued a stunning statement this week saying Miller \u201cneeds serious psychological help\u201d and is \u201ca danger to my daughter\u201d Emily Moreno, adding, \u201cI hold my breath every minute he has custody of my granddaughter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf there are any basic standards of character required to hold elected office, Max Miller fails them,\u201d he added. \u201cHe should not serve in the House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n In the Capitol on Tuesday, Bernie Moreno became emotional as he told reporters about the toll the public feud with Miller has taken on his daughter, his granddaughter and his wife. <\/p>\n \u201cThis is truly the seventh level of hell. This has been a horrific experience for my entire family,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n He said that his daughter lives in constant fear of Miller and that he met Miller at a police station Sunday to pick up his granddaughter.<\/p>\n So far, President Donald Trump is standing by Miller, though the allegations are unsettling for some congressional Republicans. Trump called the situation \u201ca very sad thing\u201d Monday and said Miller, a political ally, is a \u201cgood person.\u201d<\/p>\n He said he wanted to let the families figure things out.<\/p>\n Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said the allegation that Miller engaged in domestic abuse is \u201cnone of my business.\u201d But he added: \u201cIt just \u2014 it doesn\u2019t help. Just gives people more one more reason to be disgusted with Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawmakers typically do not request Ethics Committee investigations into themselves, but it has happened before. In 2008, then-House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., asked the Ethics Committee to investigate allegations<\/a> that he had improperly used congressional letterhead to rally support for an educational center named after him.<\/p>\n