Horrific Republican wife-beating scandal goes nuclear
Sen. Bernie Moreno says former son-in-law Max Miller should not serve in the House Ohio's Republican Senator has finally publicly condemned his wife-beating son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, and declared that he should not serve in the House of Representatives in a public statement. In typical Republican fashion, Moreno waited until the absolute last second to weigh in on the scandal. Emily, who is Moreno’s daughter and Miller’s now ex-wife, accuses her ex of breaking her daughter's collarbone, throwing boiling water at her, and holding a gun to her head. Miller attempted to get out ahead of Moreno's statement with his own video, in which he said "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 a common defense of abusers, falsely equating a traumatic response to warmth, and definitely does not help his case. On top of that, where ...