An armed man arrested near where former President Donald Trump was speaking in Southern California on Sunday denied reports that he intended to assassinate the Republican presidential candidate.
On Saturday, officials said that the man, later identified as Vem Miller, was arrested at a security checkpoint near the former president’s rally in Coachella, California, allegedly in possession of loaded firearms, multiple passports, and a fake license plate.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said he believed his department halted an assassination attempt, though he acknowledged this was speculation.
“No matter what, it’s all going to be speculation about what his intentions were getting there. If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt,” Bianco said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon….