A man was arrested with multiple guns outside Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department announced Sunday — along with multiple fake forms of identification and a fake VIP pass. A man identified as Vem Miller, a 49-year-old Las Vegas resident, had a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine, which the department said he possessed illegally.
Whether “Vem Miller” is his actual name was still being assessed as of Sunday afternoon, according to the Sheriff’s Department, due to the multiple names found on the multiple passports and other ID in his possession. Miller was arrested without incident before being booked for possession of a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine.
The incident didn’t impact the Republican candidate’s safety or that of any of the Coachella rally’s attendees, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the man planned to attack the president. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that he believed Miller planned to kill Trump and that deputies thwarted those plans. However, a woman identifying herself as Miller’s friend and business partner, Mindy Robinson, posted on X that she didn’t believe that was his intention.
“There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump, he’s worked too hard in this movement to expose the Deep State and all the people against him,” Robinson wrote. “If he had guns in his car that were illegal, whooptie-f–king do. As a pro-2A advocate, ask me if I give a s–t about a good guy with a gun in an unsafe s–thole like California. It doesn’t even make sense why his passes would be fake either when we’re both usually invited as media to these things.”
“And I’d love to see exactly what this ‘threat’ was he made about Trump…..because I don’t believe he said it,” Robinson added. “I just know it’s going to be the most misconstrued bulls–t thing ever when I finally hear, assuming they even ever tell us.”
Robinson went on to promote a conspiracy theory, adding that she believed Miller was being targeted for a documentary on government conspiracy that they had worked on involving the “deep state,” as well as another conspiracy around the 2017 mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival.
“Either way, I stand by Vem Miller….and I will get to the bottom of this bulls–t. Watch me,” Robinson concluded.
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