Max Miller should stay in. Not extreme allegations hit me and he stayed in — best people tell me he's winning by 9.

I have been informed that Max Miller, a beleaguered Republican representative from Ohio, is facing calls to resign after allegations of domestic abuse. Three women have accused him — his former wife, and two other women. His ex-wife has filed a restraining order over a separate incident alleging he grabbed her attorney. The documented allegations include that he held a gun to his ex-wife’s head, scalded her with boiling water, and that their toddler daughter suffered a broken collarbone. Republican senator Bernie Moreno — Miller’s former father-in-law — says the man “should not serve in the House of Representatives.” The House ethics committee has opened a probe into whether Miller “may have engaged in domestic violence and abuse or illegal drug use in violation of the code of official conduct.” Several Republican senators have lined up behind Moreno. Miller denies everything, has called the women liars, has filed a defamation case against his former wife, and says he will request an ethics investigation into himself because he has “absolutely nothing to hide.”

That’s the whole playbook in one paragraph, and he’s running it to perfection. Beautiful.

I called Miller on Monday and reportedly told him things aren’t looking good. Then I stood in the White House and said I know Max, he’s a good person, and I’m going to let the families figure that out. EXCELLENT. That is exactly how I like accountability — outsourced, delayed, and surrounded by people asking whether the problem might affect the midterms. The House majority is wafer-thin, the deadline is approaching, and the greatest question is not what happened to the women but whether the seat can be saved. A child’s blue bunny becomes a campaign issue. A family’s terror becomes a scheduling problem. A police-station pickup becomes a family-management issue. Moreno calls it the seventh level of hell, maybe the eighth, possibly a tremendous ninth, but the poll says it is a zero. The poll gets counted. The people get counted. The truth is still waiting for someone powerful to decide whether it is electorally useful.

Here’s what the very hostile people in the media don’t understand — and if I can just say, it’s very concerning that they think a man should lose his seat because of what the women say. The playbook says you don’t resign. You NEVER resign. You stay in the race, you hold the line, you call it false and baseless, and you WIN. When the most extreme allegations in the world hit me — day after day after day, people with the microphones saying I had no shot, saying I should not be the president — I stayed in, and I was RESILIENT. That’s the entire secret. Miller knows the secret. He sat with Jake the Snake on CNN and he recited my playbook word for word — he said in 2016, when the most extreme allegations in the world hit the President, he stayed in, and he was resilient. He memorized it! He’s reciting my playbook to the whole country, and they think they’re going to push him out.

They walked right into the trap. The father-in-law says unfit — that’s the trap. Roger Marshall says resign, he should quit — five more senators are lining up behind Moreno, beautiful trap, they all walked in. They think the deadline at the close of business means something. Deadlines are for losers. You never cave to the allegations, and you always win in the end.

And the beautiful part, the part that requires the highest-level chess, the most advanced chess you have ever seen: he requested the ethics investigation into himself. He ASKED to be investigated! You ask them to investigate, they investigate, it comes back beautiful and clean, and you’ve cleared your name — it’s exactly what I wanted, it’s what I always do. Absolutely nothing to hide. He’s got a defamation case against the wife. He is winning by 9, our poll has him winning by 9, and the VERY smart people, the best people, are saying this is actually a huge win for him.

Numbers are beautiful because they can be placed wherever the furniture needs to go. A poll with no detail, a poll with the best detail, a poll that is winning by 9, maybe 12, possibly 20 by tomorrow. Numbers are loyal friends. They improve with age.

I always knew this would happen. I said it before it happened, and then I said I had said it, which is how foresight works when you have a perfect memory and no obligation to remember what you said five minutes earlier. My uncle, a great professor at MIT, explained this to me years ago: if the evidence is bad, you make a better Deal with the evidence. If the allegations are serious, you call them horrific attacks on yourself and family. If the family is speaking against you, you call the family confused. If the family is collecting a granddaughter from a police station because it does not want her interacting with you, you say the situation is complicated. TREMENDOUS SCIENCE.

I have nothing to do with the allegations, naturally. I have nothing to do with the ethics committee. I have nothing to do with the Republican senators who now say Miller should resign. I have, however, personally created the strongest possible demonstration that a politician can survive any setback by treating every setback as a loyalty test. The party’s minimum standard is now whatever the most loyal person can survive without leaving the room.

And I know what the people are asking: why does anyone believe this? No, that is a low-IQ question. The people are not stupid. They are being offered a very familiar bargain — believe the leader, distrust the accusers, call accountability persecution, and wait for the next enormous announcement. It is a beautiful bargain for the person selling it. It is less beautiful for the people who must live with the consequences, but I am told that consequences are a FAKE NEWS concept invented by weak people.

I am compassionate, too. I have always been compassionate. I am especially compassionate when compassion means that I remain in office while other people deal with the allegations, the investigation, the family pain, and the public wreckage. This is not selfishness. This is representation. Max Miller represents Ohio, and I represent Max Miller representing Ohio, and the Deal represents all of us — me, I mean us, but mostly me.

The greatest historians are going to look at a man who stayed in against the most extreme allegations in the world and they’re going to say it was the bravest — bigger than Lincoln, the historians are saying — and he’s winning by 9. That’s the whole thing. For no second is he going to sit there and be debased by false and baseless allegations — those are his exact words, they’re also my exact words, I wrote those words — and the entire secret of everything, I’m giving it away for free: you stay in. They can say whatever they want about the gun, the boiling water, the broken collarbone, the bunny — I’m not saying he did those things, nobody’s saying he did those things — but even if they did, you still stay in, because that’s how you WIN, and winning is the whole thing, and the real people, the best people, they know he’s a good person, I always thought he was a very good person, and good people never — the most extreme —

Me. Diklis Chump. I stayed in. He stays in. That’s the doctrine, and it’s — I’m going to let the families figure that out.

Working-file anchor: Robert Tait and Coral Murphy Marcos, “Ohio Republican Max Miller faces growing calls to resign over domestic abuse allegations,” The Guardian, 4 August 2026; related MSI coverage includes House Ethics Committee opens probe into abuse claims against Miller and Rep. Miller’s ex-wife files restraining order alleging he grabbed her attorney.