Jason
Miller
was
all
set
to
be
the
White
House
communications
director
for
the
first
Trump
administration
when
news
circulated
that
he’d
had
an
affair
with
fellow
campaign
staffer,
Arlene
“AJ”
Delgado.
Delgado
has
a
7-year-old
son
that
she
contends
belongs
to
Miller.
The
pair
have
spent
the
better
part
of
a
decade
now
litigating
all
over
the
place,
from
sex
discrimination
claims
in
New
York
federal
court
to
paternity
and
child
support
claims
floating
around
Florida.
The
Florida
claims
have,
as
Florida
Bulldog
put
it
yesterday,
“gone
through
a
carousel
of
judges
in
three
judicial
districts
due
to
conflicts
of
interest
and
accusations
of
bias.”
And
now
they’ve
added
another.
Miami-Dade
Circuit
Court
Judge
Spencer
Multack
drew
the
short
straw
and
took
on
the
paternity
case
in
2021,
becoming
the
ninth
judge
in
this
litigation
which
is
basically
Bleak
House
except
with
a
very
real
7-year-old
child.
Up
until
recently,
it
was
Delgado
who
sought
to
toss
Multack
from
the
case,
alleging
bias
in
Miller’s
favor.
But
then,
after
an
appellate
court
opening
arose,
Miller
went
on
the
former
Twitter
to
announce:
Judge
Multack
recused
himself
four
hours
later.
Delgado’s
attorney
in
the
New
York
case
informed
that
judge
of
the
development
last
week,
characterizing
Miller’s
remarks
as
“very
real
threats
of
professional
harm.”
Any
normal
lawyer
representing
a
client
like
this
would
have
seen
that
tweet
land
and
immediately
aged
twenty
years.
“You
know
what
would
really
help
your
ongoing
child
support
battle?
Publicly
threatening
the
judge’s
career
on
social
media!”
said
no
lawyer
ever.
Let’s
put
aside
whether
it’s
fair
to
characterize
a
citizen
stating
his
preference
for
an
open
judgeship
as
a
“threat”
with
the
intent
of
influencing
the
judge
—
which
would
open
the
door
to
a
first-degree
misdemeanor
in
Florida
—
and
focus
on
how
it’s
just
gobsmackingly
stupid.
The
next
judge
that
ends
up
hearing
this
dumpster
fire
litigation
isn’t
likely
to
say
anything
explicit,
but
unless
Miller
manages
to
draw
a
judge
with
some
deep
seated,
comic-book
enmity
toward
Judge
Multack,
everything
Miller
does
from
now
on
will
draw
healthy
judicial
side-eye.
This
was
also
stupid
because,
if
Miller
actually
had
the
juice
to
torpedo
a
judicial
appointment,
he
wouldn’t
need
to
announce
it
to
625,000
followers.
If
he
had
the
sort
of
pull
that
could
directly
or
indirectly
convince
Ron
DeSantis
to
pass
over
Multack,
he’d
just
do
it.
He
would
pick
up
the
phone
or
have
lunch
with
the
right
donor
and
end
it.
No
need
for
a
public
show.
Peak
beta
male
move,
as
the
kids
might
say.
Ultimately,
this
illustrates
what
public
policy
professor
Don
Moynihan
has
called
the
“clicktatorship”
—
the
MAGA
brain
rot
brought
on
by
the
toxic
intersection
of
extreme
social
media
brain
and
authoritarian
impulses.
As
Moynihan
put
it,
Trump
culture
embraces
a
world
where
“everything
is
content,”
and
its
acolytes
don’t
just
use
social
media
for
communication,
but
rewire
their
dopamine
loops
around
online
engagement.
The
platform
is
the
message,
if
you
will.
Which
is
why
Miller
couldn’t
keep
his
battle
in
the
courtroom.
He
just
had
to
spill
it
over
to
social
media
and
flex
the
power
he
imagines
that
his
600K+
followers
give
him
over
Florida
judicial
politics.
When
“EVERY
resource
I
have,”
is
a
few
hundred
thousand
followers,
that’s
not
the
flex
he
thinks
it
is.
In
any
event,
Judge
Multack
is
off
the
case
and
Delgado
is
moving
to
get
the
case
moved
to
a
whole
new
judicial
circuit.
So
we
beat
on,
briefs
against
the
current,
borne
back
ceaselessly
into
the
2016
campaign.
Trump
campaign
mouthpiece
Jason
Miller
threatens
judge
in
his
paternity
case
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