Wednesday, July 17, 2019

When AJ Met Jason... Episode 12: They're Back - Updated

Do you remember AJ Delgado and Jason Miller, the Trump campaign staffers who had an affair? Between August 10, 2017 and November 14, 2018, I wrote eleven posts in which I chronicled the depressingly sordid mess that resulted from that little fling between a married boss and his subordinate. (Click here to read them; for a full understanding of how this has played out, scroll to the end and start with episode 1, then read up.)

The story disappeared after my last post in November; at the time my best guess was that AJ and Jason had reached some kind of custody/child support agreement that included a strict "no trashing each other on Twitter (or anywhere else)" clause.

Jason was in the news briefly in June when he went off on Representative Jerry Nadler:

Jason Miller Tweets

... which caused him to be fired, or, excuse me, to mutually part ways from his employer and his $500,000 annual salary:

Jason Miller, a former top campaign aide and close adviser to Donald Trump, has left his job as a managing director at Teneo, a prominent consulting firm, days after launching a profanity-laced tirade directed at a top House Democrat.

“I have parted ways with Teneo by mutual consent and look forward to formally announcing my next move in the coming weeks,” Miller said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “Teneo is an incredible firm and without a doubt the premier CEO consultancy on the planet. They have always been great to me and I’m proud to have called them teammates for the past two and a half years.” (From a story at the Daily Beast, read it here.) 

Jason also deleted his Twitter account. 

Then, yesterday, Jason Miller had a very bad day: 





Twitter, of course, went nuts:













This is how the Miami Herald is covering the story, in an article posted this afternoon:

In a deposition for his libel suit over stories he claimed ruined his reputation, former Donald Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller admitted his extramarital activities included massage parlor masturbation in New York, Washington or Miami.

The deposition’s transcript is on the Miami federal court docket for Miller vs. Gizmodo Media Group, the owners of Splinter.com. Miller claims Splinter.com published allegations from a sealed Miami-Dade family court filing that qualify as libelous. The suit calls the Sept. 21, 2018 story, which accuses Miller of giving a mistress an “abortion pill,” part of a plot to destroy by A.J. Delgado, who had a son by Miller in July 2017.

Rumors of the affair with Delgado, a transition adviser, prompted Miller’s resignation in December 2016 two days after President Trump announced Miller would be his communications director.

On May 30, Miller was deposed by Gizmodo attorney Katherine Bolger of Davis Wright Tremaine law firm. The transcript of the deposition was first obtained by mediaite.com.

The subject turned to Miller’s infidelities.

Miller admitted, “There were other indiscretions that I’ve had” beyond his affairs with Delgado and the other woman.

When Bolger asked him to be more specific, Miller said, “On several occasions I’ve gone to a massage parlor.”

Miller admitted to going to Asian-themed places in New York, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and, one, in Miami. He couldn’t name names as far as establishments. He put his total visits at “five or six” times.

Bolger said “I assume when you use the word “massage parlor,” you refer to massage parlors that have some sexual component to them, right?”

Miller replied, “I’ve gotten a — a hand job at a massage parlor.”

“Okay. How many times?”

“Four or five.”

Miller said his sexual contact at the parlors were limited to manual stimulation. No such limits existed when he visited Washington, D.C. escorts in 2015 and 2017. (This is the article in its entirety; click here to read Miller's deposition.)

What does AJ have to say about all this? Given how bad, or to be more accurate, how much worse, it makes Jason look she's surprisingly restrained, which supports my belief that she's now contractually constrained from trashing him by name: (Note added Thursday morning: As I said in the update below, AJ has now deleted her Twitter account. That's why her tweets don't look like tweets anymore.)   























Yes, this is going to sound snarky, but I'm wondering how Mrs. Miller is feeling about her husband today.

Update on Thursday morning: AJ has deleted her Twitter account, and I admit I'm curious to know why. As I said above, I don't know for sure that there's a non-disparagement clause in whatever custody/support agreement they hammered out, but I'd say it's likely, and AJ may have gone too far with her tweets yesterday. (There were others that I didn't cut-and-paste into the blog, which are now sadly lost to history, unless she reinstates her account at some point in the future.) Did she get a stern warning from Jason's attorneys? Probably. As interested as I've been in watching this sad story play out in public, it's probably best for all concerned that neither AJ nor Jason is on Twitter anymore. 
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