Donald Trump Ally Responds to Rape Accusations

Jason Miller, a political strategist and ally of former president Donald Trump, has denied allegations by a former campaign staffer that he raped her on several occasions while they were having an affair.

In the latest in a long string of litigation, A.J. Delgado, a lawyer and senior adviser during Trump's first presidential run, claimed Miller engaged in a "cycle of sexual coercion, rape, sexual assault, abuse, battery, sexual harassment, and sex trafficking" during the time they were together in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, according to the Daily Beast, which first reported on the story.

Delgado became pregnant and later gave birth to Miller's child following the affair. Since then, she has lodged several legal claims against Miller, who remains a senior adviser to the former president as he attempts another run for the White House.

"History has shown a pattern of conduct by Delgado simply intended to harass my family while wasting the judiciary's time and resources," Miller told Newsweek on Friday when asked to comment on the latest lawsuit. He also said that he had yet to be served.

When approached for comment on the response to her lawsuit by Newsweek on Friday, Delgado described it as an "attack," questioned the professionalism of the journalist and said that Newsweek had been "asked" to write this article.

According to excerpts of the court filing published by the Daily Beast, the first incident cited occurred in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 19, 2016—the night before a presidential debate in the city.

The lawsuit claims Miller plied her with alcohol before taking her and another female colleague back to his room for a debate prep session. It said he then asked the other woman to leave.

"Delgado, who had had an extremely busy day and had had very little to eat, was inebriated, nauseated, and felt unwell," the lawsuit said, according to the outlet. "The next morning, Delgado awoke in the bedroom portion of the suite, partially dressed, with her jumpsuit hanging around her ankle, what appeared to be vomit on the side of her pillow, and one of her high heels on the bed.

"There was evidence that Miller had had penetrative sex with her in her hotel suite, relations that were not consented to by Delgado, and Delgado was fully unable to consent to any sexual relations."

The court filing goes on to claim that similar incidents happened repeatedly over a period of two months at the Las Vegas Trump Hotel, the former president's golf resort in Doral, Florida, and an apartment in Manhattan, according to the outlet.

A source close to Miller told Newsweek that because Miller had chosen to stay with his wife, with whom he has two daughters, Delgado had since made his life "a living hell."

They said that through several years of litigation, Delgado had "never once" made the latest allegations "even though hundreds of these filings were specific to custody matters and fitness."

In court documents obtained by the Daily Mail in 2018, Delgado said Miller was physically and sexually abusive, but did not mention rape and declined to give details of the claim when interviewed by the newspaper.

The source close to Miller said that despite making public attacks on Miller for years, her making the accusations now suggested they "are completely false and have been disproven by her own words" and were "nothing more than an attempt to destroy" Miller because "she didn't get picked." Delgado asked for evidence to corroborate this speculative opinion when approached by Newsweek.

In an interview with The Atlantic magazine in 2017, Delgado reportedly showed text messages from the time of the affair in which the two referred to each other affectionately, and said their relationship deteriorated after she became pregnant.

She is quoted as saying of their child: "He came out of what was a really nice, sweet relationship between two people who met on the campaign trail and liked each other a lot... I won't allow you to say he came out of a boorish, vulgar, scandalous night."

At the time, she claimed that Miller had not provided child support, and has since taken him to court over it and custody of the child. Delgado said that the two had reached an agreement on October 31 on child support payments.

On November 9, in a series of social media posts, she then described Miller as "a demon" who "acted like a CRAZY abuser" while coming to the agreement.

Miller told Newsweek she was "making that up," and that he had "no idea what changed" in the intervening week as they had no interaction. "We settled, she boasted about it on Twitter, and then filed a motion to redo it all, which was just this morning denied," he said.

Delgado has claimed on X that a bank helped hide some of Miller's wealth.

There are also appeal proceedings listed with the 3rd District Court of Appeal which remain open.

Delgado has previously claimed Miller suggested terminating the pregnancy on several occasions, which Miller refuted through an attorney. She has also alleged in court filings that Miller had spiked another woman's drink with a morning after pill, which led to his departure as a talking head on CNN, and which Miller has also strenuously denied.

In 2019, Delgado also filed a federal complaint against the Trump campaign alleging it discriminated against her by shutting her out after she told senior officials that she was pregnant and denying her a position in Trump's White House. This case, in the Southern District Court of New York, also remains ongoing, court records show.

Update, 11/17/23, 1:30 p.m. ET: This article was updated with responses from A.J. Delgado.