Man arrested outside Trump Coachella rally sues California sheriff over claims he was potential assassin

A antheral who says helium was wrongfully accused of a imaginable assassination effort connected former President Trump astatine a California run rally Saturday has filed a suit against the sheriff who made the accusations.

"They fundamentally dropped a atomic weaponry into my beingness wherever my beingness volition ne'er beryllium the same, regardless. You know, there's a ineligible connection called restitution, which means to marque you full again aft a calamity similar this. And determination is nary eventual restitution successful this," Trump protagonist Vem Miller told Fox News Digital. "You know, the net is forever. Essentially, they did incredibly damaging things to my life." 

Miller, of Nevada, was arrested for possessing firearms extracurricular the Republican statesmanlike nominee's rally in Coachella implicit the weekend, and says helium was fixed a VIP walk to the rally and has an extended media and governmental history. 

"They support saying that I was trying to get into the Trump rally with guns, which is highly inaccurate. The close statement of what I was trying to bash is that I was trying to spell to a backstage parking lot, parkland my car, past locomotion astatine slightest a quarter-of-a-mile," Miller said. 

WHO IS VEM MILLER, MAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE TRUMP COACHELLA RALLY? 4 THINGS TO KNOW

Vem Miller is suing the Riverside County Sheriff for what helium is claiming is simply a mendacious communicative aft helium alluded to Miller perchance trying to termination erstwhile President Trump.  (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Miller said if helium was estimating correctly, the parking country was astatine slightest fractional a mile distant from the existent perimeter of the rally, which helium says was intentionally acceptable up that way. 

"It is acceptable up purposefully that way, due to the fact that guns are not the lone mode to assassinate people. It's besides car bombs. So you don't privation to person cars similar a Timothy McVeigh-style concern adjacent the rally. So these are 2 distinctly abstracted locations," Miller explained. "So that has to beryllium characterized correctly, due to the fact that I would not beryllium truthful foolish to deliberation that. And I deliberation radical cognize astatine this constituent from my talk, my demeanor and each that stuff, my enactment that I've done, like, I'm not going to marque a anserine mistake similar that."

When helium was stopped connected his mode into the rally, Miller told officers helium had a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine. Miller claims helium has ne'er fired them, but helium started keeping them with him erstwhile helium started getting decease threats. 

"The guns, by the way, that we're talking about, which is, I don't know, similar a four-foot-long shotgun and a Glock. None of them are automatic. None of them are rifles. None of them are adjacent the benignant of accuracy you would request successful bid to execute thing of this sinister proportionality that I was initially being accused of. They're not adjacent the close guns for that. So it's like, you know, there's truthful galore flaws successful this," Miller said. 

Miller says his beingness has been turned upside down since Saturday, and helium is surviving successful changeless fearfulness for his beingness and those helium cares about, fearing "crazy guys trying to support Trump" would effort to "off him" due to the fact that they deliberation helium was trying to termination Trump. 

MAN ARRESTED OUTSIDE TRUMP COACHELLA RALLY DENIES ASSASSINATION INTENT; HE'S 'ALL IN' SUPPORTING TRUMP

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Trump arrives to talk astatine a run rally astatine the Calhoun Ranch successful Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

"If you're a header reader, you deliberation I'm the 3rd Trump assassin successful the institution of 2 psychopaths, you know, 2 precise mentally sick individuals, which is not what I am. And truthful that's frightening," Miller said. 

Miller filed 10 claims successful a national lawsuit connected Tuesday, alleging that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco "intentionally, maliciously and with a blatant disregard for the truth, wanted to make a communicative truthful arsenic to beryllium viewed arsenic a ‘heroic’ sheriff who saved Presidential campaigner Trump from a 3rd assassination attempt." 

The suit besides states that "even aft being notified by some the United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation that they did not judge Miller was a menace and declined to interrogation him, Bianco continued to marque preposterous allegations against Miller, holding property conferences perpetuating his delusional and mendacious narrative."

The suit reads that "Riverside constabulary engaged successful deliberate and wrongful behaviour and compromised constabulary protocol, violating Miller’s law rights for the intent of promoting and engaging successful a meritless and gratuitous sensational story."

Miller, 49, is a registered Republican, a subordinate of the Clark County Republican Party’s Central Committee, and served arsenic a Trump caucus skipper during the 2024 statesmanlike primaries, according to the complaint. He told Fox connected Sunday that helium is "all-in" supporting Trump.

"Instead of apologizing to Miller for the mendacious accusations made against him, Bianco compounded [his own] misconduct, perpetuated [sic] a boisterous and delusional communicative that has caused irreparable harm to Miller’s quality and reputation," the ailment read. 

Miller said that the 1 metallic lining successful each this is that Bianco and his section volition present beryllium investigated and decently cleaned up.

"This section that has been investigated before, that has displayed aggregate accounts of transgression affairs is present having to truly beryllium investigated and decently cleaned up. Because the contented present is, you know, you perceive astir these levels of corruption. We each cognize whether we're left, right, Democrat oregon Republican, that there's a batch of corruption. And the question becomes, wherefore does this corruption happen? Why is it truthful rampant?" Miller said.

"And I deliberation the reply is simple….is that erstwhile radical aren't held accountable wherever there's nary punishment for crime, and you and I, by the way, if we did things similar this, we'd beryllium successful jail, right? So, we the people, would beryllium successful jail. But apparently, erstwhile you person a rubric that protects you, and you could run nether the colour of instrumentality and essentially, that means being a criminal, utilizing your your title, your privilege. So that's the issue," Miller continued.

Miller emphasized that the sheriff's department's behaviour was unacceptable and that they request to beryllium held accountable for their actions.

COPS NAB MAN ALLEGEDLY CARRYING ILLEGAL GUNS NEAR TRUMP'S COACHELLA RALLY; SUSPECT SAYS HE BACKS EX-PRESIDENT

Republican statesmanlike nominee and erstwhile President Trump speaks during a rally successful Coachella, Calif., Saturday. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

"This is conscionable atrocious behavior. The astir basal happening arsenic an serviceman of the instrumentality is you person to beryllium what is lawful oregon unlawful and grounds is involved. And erstwhile idiosyncratic has zero grounds but seems to beryllium doing thing for different reasons, I mean, those radical bash not beryllium successful office," Miller said. 

Miller added that 1 happening that has amazed him done each this has been the level of enactment helium has received from his ellipse and radical helium has worked with passim his career. 

"I mean, cipher ever questioned my mentation of the story. Nobody ever adjacent thought that I was susceptible of this. You know, successful bid for maine to beryllium susceptible of this, I would person had to unrecorded a precise elaborate beingness for the past six years, been an incredibly social, pathological liar, done 800 episodes conscionable to enactment a mendacious beforehand retired there," Miller said. "I mean, it would person to beryllium similar the top James Bond level. It is conscionable thing that I don't deliberation is adjacent feasible for a quality being to beryllium capable to found that benignant of fraud." 

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The Riverside County Sheriff's Office sent a connection to Fox News Digital and acknowledged the lawsuit.

"We admit the suit filed against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office and instrumentality specified matters seriously. However, arsenic it is pending litigation, we cannot remark connected the specifics astatine this time. We are committed to transparency and volition cooperate afloat with the ineligible process. Our precedence remains the information and well-being of the assemblage we serve. We admit your knowing arsenic we code this matter," the connection read. 

Fox News Digital's Bryan Preston contributed to this report.