“Max Miller, 32, is the poster child of Trump’s post-impeachment retribution tour. In his mounting efforts to punish Republican apostates in next year’s midterms and to bolster his political sway for a potential run of his own in 2024, Trump has endorsed an array of supportive candidates in House, Senate and state-level races – but there’s nobody on the list like Miller. He’s not merely a loyalist – he’s a loyalist who worked on both Trump campaigns as well as in the White House and used proximity to the president to foster by all accounts an actual affinity and rapport. He’s not just one of Trump’s ‘Complete and Total’ House endorsements – he was the first. And he’s pitted against one of the impeachment voters who galls Trump the most – in a state he won twice. While the statement that accompanied Trump’s late February endorsement called Miller ‘a wonderful person,’ this rally on a sweltering summer Saturday marked a yet more full-throated and visual showing of his backing. ‘An incredible patriot,’ Trump said, ‘who I know very well.'”

“Maybe not well enough, according to police records, court records and interviews with more than 60 people. Ranging from people who grew up with Miller in the affluent Cleveland inner suburb of Shaker Heights to those he worked with and for in the White House and on Trump’s campaigns – some of whom were granted anonymity because they fear retaliation from Miller, Trump or both – these people told me Miller can be a cocky bully with a quick-trigger temper… And barely more than a year ago, according to three people familiar with the incident, Miller’s romantic relationship with former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham ended when he pushed her against a wall and slapped her in the face in his DC apartment after accusing him of cheating on her” – Politico.