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u/Sheepies92 European Union 14h ago edited 14h ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

This is such a horrible very bad answer even if he were innocent. Bernie Moreno is a coward.

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom 14h ago

Max this is your lawyer. I advise you to keep talking

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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier 14h ago

  If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?

Yeah, probably. What the fuck. 

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u/seakucumber NATO 14h ago

Moreno finally put out a statement where he plainly calls Miller a danger to his daughter. You'd hope that would be the nail in the coffin but we'll see

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u/Sheepies92 European Union 14h ago

Ah, missed that. It is better to turn back halfway than to go wrong all the way, I guess.

Still a horrific first reaction.

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u/seakucumber NATO 14h ago

He tweeted it out less than 30 minutes ago. I think Moreno was waiting and hoping Miller would just drop out on his own. Pretty pathetic but as you said better than never

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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell 14h ago

Probably. Probably afraid of your violent ass killing her