Cleveland.com: “Max Miller, the White House staffer under former President Donald Trump who is running for Congress in Northeast Ohio, sued former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Tuesday over her accusations that Miller abused her while the two dated. Miller also asked a judge in Cleveland to order Grisham not to repeat the claims she first made in an op-ed in the Washington Post, including preventing her from discussing it during interviews she had scheduled later Tuesday with CNN’s Jake Tapper and Chris Cuomo. Grisham appeared on ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ on Tuesday afternoon and told the host there was ‘abuse in every way there’ during her relationship with Miller, whom she did not name in the op-ed.”

“‘I didn’t put his name in there on purpose because I’ve moved on,’ Grisham said during the interview with Tapper. ‘If there’s anything I can take away, I’m almost stronger than ever now, and no one is ever going to abuse me again in any way, shape or form.’ Larry Zukerman, a Cleveland-based attorney representing Miller, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. The 13-page complaint says Grisham, in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday, made ‘libelous and defamatory statements’ that Miller abused her toward the end of their relationship. Miller says that Grisham made the claims to harm him and to sell more copies of her memoir, titled ‘I’ll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House,’ which also published Tuesday. In a statement to the Plain Dealer on Tuesday, Zukerman said Grisham’s allegations that Miller was abusive and violent toward her were ‘absolutely untrue.'”