Just days after he was named Donald Trump’s White House communications director, Jason Miller has refused the job and stepped back from the Trump team. His departure from the administration is apparently related to Miller’s needs to focus on his family according to his official statement, but other details reportedly indicate there may be a more salacious reason.
Miller’s statement explains his reluctance to take on the job is due to his wife’s pregnancy with their second child according to the Daily News:
“It’s clear they need to be my top priority right now, and this is not the time to start a new job as demanding as White House communications director,”
This would all be fine if not for a series of deleted tweets from Trump surrogate and transition adviser A.J. Delgado. The posts allege that Miller may have been involved in an adulterous relationship with Delgado and that it could be the reason that Miller was stepping down from the position just two days after it was announced.
“Congratulations to the baby-daddy on being named WH Comms Director!” she wrote in one now-deleted tweet.
“The 2016 version of John Edwards,” she wrote in another, referring to the disgraced ex-Democratic senator who fathered a child with his mistress.
Delgado’s Twitter account has since been deleted, but most of the messages have been captured and saved at this point. Nothing posted online goes away forever, especially when they’re connected to an alleged sex scandal. The Miami lawyer apparently called on Miller to resign ahead of the Trump transition team announcement which did not happen, leading to the situation that played out on Saturday.
This isn’t the first time that the pair were in the headlines connected to behavior away from the campaign. Ahead of the final debate with Hillary Clinton in Las Vegas, the pair were part of a group from Trump’s campaign that entertained members of the media at a strip club the night before according to Page Six:
Sources said that Trump campaign senior communications adviser Jason Miller — along with female colleagues including senior adviser and surrogate A.J. Delgado and deputy communications director Jessica Ditto — went with several members of the media from networks, including CNN, NBC and ABC, to Sapphire Las Vegas Strip Club before the big night.
With “70,000 square feet of topless entertainment and serving the finest variety of cocktails,” Sin City’s Sapphire bills itself as the largest strip club in the world.
This trip was called a “serious lapse in judgment” by some insiders, but it’s likely that the latest allegations would shadow that.
(Via Daily News / Page Six / Mediaite)