A man who was arrested with a loaded gun outside a Donald Trump rally in California has denied that he was intending to assassinate the former president.
Vem Miller, 49, of Las Vegas, was arrested Saturday at a checkpoint in Coachella Valley after he was allegedly found illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine. Miller was also driving an unregistered vehicle with a homemade license plate and had multiple passports and driver’s licenses with different names, authorities said.
Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff, told the Southern California News Group on Sunday that officers had “probably stopped another assassination attempt.” There have previously been two suspected assassination attempts on Trump in recent months. The former president was left with minor injuries after a gunman opened fire at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July. Trump was also the target of an apparent assassination attempt at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, in September, though no shots were fired at the Republican.
Speaking to Fox News Digital over the phone, Miller, who was later released, said that he was “100 percent a Trump supporter” and that he has no intention of trying to shoot the former president at the Coachella Valley event.
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