Ex-Trump aide Jason Miller accused of slipping abortion pill into woman's smoothie

A former aide to Donald Trump has been accused of secretly slipping an abortion pill into the drink of a woman he had made pregnant.

Jason Miller, the US president’s former communications adviser, stepped down from his role as a political contributor for the CNN cable channel after the allegations surfaced.

He has been accused of getting a woman he met at an Orlando strip club pregnant and then slipping an abortion pill into her smoothie.

Mr Miller has denied the allegations. Announcing that he was stepping down from his role at CNN, he said he wanted to focus on “fighting the false and defamatory accusations being made against me”.

He is also embroiled in a legal dispute with his former lover AJ Delgado – a former Trump campaign staffer – over custody of their son.

The pair have argued publicly on Twitter about the case.

Fresh allegations made by Ms Delgado against Mr Miller were put forward to the online news publication Splinter last week.

It reported that Ms Delgado’s legal team alleged that Mr Miller – prior to their own high-profile extramarital romance – carried out an affair with a woman he met at an Orlando strip club.

According to court documents cited, when the woman found out she was pregnant Miller is alleged to have dosed her with an abortion pill without her knowledge, leading, the woman claims, to the pregnancy’s termination and nearly her death.

The court documents, as reported by Splinter, claimed the pill was placed in a smoothie and caused the unnamed woman, referred to in the documents as Jane Doe, to lose the child and be hospitalised for a number of days.

“The pill induced an abortion, and Jane Doe wound up in a hospital emergency room, bleeding heavily and nearly went into a coma,” the court filing said.

After his lawyer denied the claim to Splinter, Mr Miller, who worked as senior communications adviser to Mr Trump during his campaign and served as communications director to the Trump transition team before joining CNN as a paid contributor in the spring of 2017, took to Twitter.

He said: “I have decided to step away from my role as a political commentator at CNN to focus on clearing my name and fighting the false and defamatory accusations being made against me.”

He added that the lack of veracity in the report “doesn’t matter, however, in the court of public opinion, where fraudulent statements and a lack of factual support rule the day as long as it fits into a tweet”.

He wrote: “Splinter also failed to do anything to corroborate the accuracy of Ms Delgado’s defamatory accusations, which have already been disproven by at least one reporter whom Ms Delgado attempted to involve in her continuous attempts to smear me.”

The new allegations were “wrongfully published by the gossip blog Splinter despite the obviousness of its falsity and lack of factual support,” he said, adding: “I will clear my name in this matter and seek to hold Ms Delgado, Splinter and anyone else involved in spreading these lies legally accountable.”