By Francisco Alvarado, FloridaBulldog.org
The long-running bizarre paternity case pitting Donald Trump campaign’s veteran political advisor Jason Miller against his ex-paramour, Arlene “AJ” Delgado, has taken another strange turn. For nearly a decade, Miller has fought Delgado over how much financial support he should provide to their 7-year-old son, William, whom Miller has acknowledged is his.
Miller is married and has two daughters with his wife.
Recently, Delgado got a hold of Miller’s bank statements from August 2023 through March of this year that she claims shows he is earning more income than he’s previously attested to in Miami-Dade Family Court, according to motions filed in the case. In a 2023 financial declaration, Miller claimed he earned $48,300 a month.
Delgado’s filings allege Miller actually earns much more, including making six-figure sums for some months of the year based on direct deposits from his clients, including familiar names in the MAGAverse, like television network Newsmax and failed Arizona political candidate Kari Lake.
Amid the payments from Trump regime sympathizers, Miller also received five deposits totaling $167,500 between September 2023 and October 2024 from Caleb Andonian, a Washington D.C. law firm representing one of the 47th president’s Democratic Party foils: California Congressman Eric Swalwell.
During the same period, Miller also collected six figures from the Trump campaign, according to a list Delgado made and attached to an April 25 motion seeking to vacate a 2023 settlement agreement between her and Miller, and to increase his monthly $3,250 child support payments.
So was Miller acting as a MAGA double agent for the Big Guy, or did he quietly join the resistance? Miller won’t say. In an email response to a request for comment, Miller said: “You’re not a ‘freelance journalist,’ you’re a fucking loser blogger. Get wrecked, soy boy!”
If Trump got wind that one of his most trusted mouthpieces was secretly working with a law firm representing a known enemy, it could explain why Miller doesn’t have a White House job and why he appears to be on the periphery of the 47th president’s orbit in recent months.
Also surprising: Delgado notched rare victories before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Spencer Multack, who is presiding over the case, and the Third District Court of Appeal. Both rejected efforts by Miller’s lawyer Sandy Fox to block Delgado from disclosing information in the bank statements.
Delgado declined comment. “The father’s income is triple what he claimed,” Delgado wrote in her Aug. 25 motion. “The mother prays this court will do right by the child…The father refuses to conduct himself in a responsible manner for the child’s benefit.”
JUDICIAL MERRY GO-ROUND
Delgado, who is unemployed, declared destitute by the courts and is representing herself, has fought a bruising legal battle to get Miller to pay his share of out-of-pocket expenses for William that are not part of the monthly $3,250 child support payments. Miller and Delgado had an affair in 2016 when she was also a spokesperson for Trump’s first winning campaign in 2016. They broke things off when Delgado got pregnant.
Since then, Delgado became a never-Trumper Republican. She has a pending civil sexual assault lawsuit in New York County Supreme Court against Miller, the 2016 Trump campaign and Jamestown Associates, a public relations firm that employed Miller.
During the early years of the paternity case, multiple judges in Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe counties recused themselves, some citing bias against Delgado. One of them, Miami-Dade Judge Valerie Manno Schurr, removed herself after admitting to making inappropriate comments regarding Delgado. Eventually, the Florida Supreme Court reassigned the case back to Miami-Dade under Multack in 2021 after other circuits declined it.
In motions filed since last year, Delgado alleged that Multack and Yadira Pedraza, a family court magistrate who briefly took on the task of determining out-of-pocket expenses Delgado alleges Miller owes her, showed bias against her due to Miller’s Trumpian bonafides. She accused Multack of attempting to land a seat on Third District Court of Appeal last year by highlighting a scathing order against her in his application to Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Pedraza, a Trump fan who took a photograph with the commander-in-chief at his private Palm Beach club Mar-a-Lago in 2017, removed herself from the case after butting heads with Delgado during a February hearing over reimbursement for a special education camp William attended in Spokane, WA.
Delgado is required to seek court approval for the out-of-pocket expenses as a result of the settlement agreement reached during an Oct. 31, 2023 court hearing. In her April 25 motion, Delgado argued the agreement should be thrown out because Miller’s bank records show it was based “on fraud and misrepresentation.”
Miller also failed to file an updated financial affidavit as required by state law when his monthly income increased, the motion states. Between April 2024 and March of this year, Miller earned roughly $156,000 per month, Delgado alleges.
The bank records indicate Miller is living well with Delgado’s motion including copies of signed checks for $28,000 to purchase a car and $23,000 to his wife’s bank account. Delgado also alleges Miller’s account indicates regular private-school tuition payments for one of his daughters, yet he refuses to help her pay for William to attend a private school specializing in speech and language therapy and learning for children with such disabilities. Tuition payments are not included in the monthly child support.
DEPOSITS FROM JAN. 6 LAW FIRM
Each deposit from Miller’s clients is identified in the list Delgado wrote and attached to the motion. She chose not to include copies of the actual bank statements “because there is no reason to disclose more than is necessary for the purposes of this filing,” Delgado wrote at the top of the list, which is marked “Attachment A.”
After the first September 2023 deposit for $50,000 from Caleb Andonian hit Miller’s bank account, he received four more payments from the law firm totaling $117,500, including $37,500 the month before Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris to reclaim the White House. Miller also received monthly deposits from the Trump campaign totaling $600,000 between August 2023 and March of this year, Attachment A shows.
The failed U.S. Senate campaign for Kari Lake paid Miller a combined $100,000 between November 2023 and October of last year. He earned another $256,000 from Newsmax between August 2023 and March. And he got $72,000 from billionaire Jeff Yass’s Susquehanna International Group between October 2024 and February. Yass was a major donor to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and he and Susquehanna own a minority interest in ByteDance, the company that owns social media application TikTok. Trump delayed a U.S. congressional ban on TikTok early into his second term.
But the Caleb Andonian deposits stand out given the law firm’s founders, Joseph Caleb and Philip Andonian, have leading roles in Congressman Swalwell’s 2021 federal civil rights lawsuit tied to the Jan. 6 insurrection against Trump, Donald Trump Jr., former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Republican Congressman Mo Brooks. Caleb and Andonian, who recently joined another firm, Silicon Valley-based Messner Reeves, are among a half-dozen lawyers representing Swalwell.
In his pending lawsuit, Swalwell alleges the four men conspired to incite Trump supporters to storm the Capitol and to delay the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory with violence, endangering the safety of public officials. Swalwell is seeking compensatory and punitive damages for physical and emotional injuries that he allegedly sustained on Jan. 6. In 2022, a federal judge dismissed the counts against Trump Jr., Giuliani and Brooks.
Caleb, Andonian and Swalwell did not respond to Florida Bulldog phone messages and emails seeking comment. Spokespersons for the White House and The Trump Organization also did not respond to requests for comment.
Meanwhile, Miller appears to be MAGA non grata since the inauguration after being on the transition team. He’s conspicuously absent from any photo-ops at the White House, Mar-a-Lago and any of Trump’s golf clubs that would show his clients he’s still plugged in. And his name wasn’t mentioned once in a recent New York Magazine feature about the MAGA lobbyists taking over Washington D.C.’s K Street.
HEADING FOR NEXT ROUND
Delgado obtained Miller’s bank records as a result of an April 11 ruling from Multack forcing Truist Bank to comply with a three-year-old subpoena. During a hearing the same day, Miller’s attorney Fox told Multack that Delgado “can have the records if the court determines she is entitled to the discovery.”
Yet, days after Delgado filed her April 25 motion, Fox ran to the Third District Court of Appeal, which granted his request to temporarily stay Multack’s ruling and prevent her from continuing to disseminate information from the bank statements in her court filings. About a month later, the appeals court denied Fox’s request to reverse Multack’s ruling and lifted the stay.
Multack also denied recent motions from Fox to depose Delgado for a fourth time, and to hold her in criminal contempt for calling him a “clown” in emails from 2024. At a June 13 hearing, Fox informed Multack that he and Miller would not object to Delgado’s motion to vacate the agreement.
After falsely accusing Delgado of posting on her social media accounts snippets of previous hearings recorded via Zoom, Fox complained to Multack that Delgado was the one responsible for dragging the case out for eight years.
“Moving forward, Mr. Miller and myself are going to ensure that the 11th Judicial Circuit brings a conclusion in this case,” Fox groused. “Shame on us for… making an agreement with her. We never should have done so.”
Delgado noted Fox spared his client from being exposed for concealing his true income. “I don’t have to go through how Mr. Miller committed fraud and misrepresentation on the court,” she said. “I don’t think it behooves him.”
Multack scheduled a hearing for Oct. 10 to determine what Miller’s new child support payments will be.
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