Yea, but it's not looking good for him...
“Reputational Self-Immolation”: Congressman Max Miller leaks audio admitting he scalded ex-wife, torpedoing his own defamation lawsuit
On Wednesday, June 3, 2026, the New York Post published an audio recording that Congressman Miller secretly recorded and personally provided to the outlet. In his defamation complaint, Miller had claimed that accusations he threw scalding water on Ms. Moreno during a June 2024 argument were completely false.
But, today’s second supplement notes, the Congressman's own audio leak proves the substantial truth of the incident:
In the recording, Ms. Moreno explicitly tells Miller he abused her by pouring “steaming hot water” on her.
Miller does not deny the act, replying on the recording: “First of all, the water incident—which I have the text messages from that we have, even following up after that I never thought that that hurt you and you know that.”
Miller later adds: “I didn't mean to hurt you. It wasn't done with intent.”
