Election 2020

Trump Campaign is Reportedly Helping Top Aide Jason Miller Dodge Child Support Payments

The Trump administration is once again dodging the truth, this time by hiding its payments to Jason Miller, one of the Trump campaign’s top advisers, who claims he talks to Trump daily but doesn’t appear in the campaign’s expense filings with the Federal Elections Committee (FEC), HuffPost and MavenRoundTable report.

Miller just happens to be entangled in a “long-running dispute with a former lover over how much child support he can afford to pay,” HuffPost reports.

Miller joined the reelection team in the spring, having worked on Trump’s 2016 campaign and has served as an informal advisor to the president since 2017. Despite that, he doesn’t show up anywhere on the campaign’s 2020 filings to the FEC regarding its expenses. That’s not all, Miller’s firm SHW Partners LLC, where he describes himself as a “principal” is also nowhere to be found in the filings.

If it can be demonstrated that Miller is earning more than is reported, a court may force him to pay more in child support.

Here’s what HuffPost is reporting:

“According to Florida court fillings in the support dispute, Miller reported an income of $689,660 in 2019 ― but continued to argue that he could not afford to pay $3,167 per month in child support for the son he fathered during in 2016 with a female colleague. For a period of six months early this year, he paid only $500 a month in child support ― despite reporting monthly personal expenses that included $1,500 for food and ‘home supplies,’ $750 for meals out, $475 for maid service and $1,517 in car payments.”

Last month, a filing in the case found that he had a monthly income of $32,606 from his company, but nothing was listed from the Trump campaign. He’s since resumed paying the $3,167, perhaps because he’s feeling the heat from this report. HuffPost has tried to contact the Trump campaign and Miller but neither has responded.

“If Miller is being paid by someone else while he works on the campaign, that would constitute an illegal in-kind contribution,” per HuffPost.

Miller’s former colleague, A.J. Delgado has been suing him for missed child support payments and legal fees since 2017. Since then she’s turned into a fierce Trump critic, having noted Tuesday that the campaign is helping Miller “skirt obligations as much as possible, as his income is directly relevant not only to child support and to child support arrears he owes our son, but even relevant to attorneys’ fees.”

Miller now lives in Virginia with his wife and daughters. Delgado and her son reside in Florida. Plans were in the works for Miller to join the White House as the Trump administrations’ communications director after the election but that was derailed when news of his affair with Delgado became public.

Quite obviously, just like his former boss who tried to hide the severity of the novel coronavirus pandemic from Americans, Miller is completely comfortable with hiding things, as he’s allegedly doing here. So please, dear readers, if you’re tired of this, you know what to do.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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