The following report is by The New York Post:
“I truly do believe we prevented another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told reporters Sunday, a day after suspect Vem Miller was arrested at a checkpoint outside Trump’s rally in Coachella Valley.
Miller, 49, was caught at a police checkpoint allegedly trying to enter the rally with a phony press pass. When cops noticed his car was unregistered, they searched the vehicle and discovered a cache of fake passports and driver’s licenses, along with a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine, officials said.
He was soon booked on weapons charges, and sprung after posting $5,000 bail, but the sheriff turned around and told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that his department had all but saved Trump’s life.
Federal agencies, however, appear to disagree.
The Secret Service believes it unlikely Miller was attempting to assassinate the president, and the FBI is not investigating it as such, sources told The Post, noting Miller is a member of an anti-government far-right group and probably had the weapons for personal defense alone.
The Secret Service later said Trump wasn’t at risk during the rally.
“The US Secret Service assesses that the incident did not impact protective operations and former President Trump was not in any danger,” the agency and the FBI said in a joint statement. “While no federal arrest has been made at this time, the investigation is ongoing.”
Miller reportedly asked for a lawyer after the FBI tried to interview him, and briefly told reporters that claims he was an assassin were “complete bulls–t.”
But the sheriff stood by his initial assessment while speaking to the press Sunday — calling Miller a “lunatic” and suggesting the country might also be for suggesting the lawman was “being dramatic.”
“What his frame of mind was, all we can do is speculate,” Bianco said. “If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt.
“If we are that politically lost, that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason that we can’t say, ‘Holy crap, what did he show up with all of that stuff for?’ … And I’m going to be accused of being dramatic? We have a serious, serious problem in this country. Because this is common sense and reason.”
Bianco noted that any charges having to do with an assassination attempt would be handled by federal authorities and not his office, and that he was working with both the Secret Service and the FBI.
Miller has an extensive history of petty run-ins with the law, sources said, and appears to be a member of the sovereign citizens movement — a far-right collective built on conspiracy theories that say governments have no authority over them.
The FBI calls the group “anti-government extremists” who maintain that while they “physically reside in this country,” they remain “separate or ‘sovereign’ from the United States.”
In addition to trying to flout taxes and the court system, the FBI noted sovereign citizens are particularly opposed to traffic stops — to the point that one 25-year-old armed member was gunned down in 2023 after refusing to comply during a Utah traffic stop.
Read the rest of the report here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
When it was reported that a second attempt was made on Trump’s life while he was on the golf course in September (as I believe the first one was rigged and staged, though I won’t get into that here), I wrote at the time:
At this rate we can expect more “assassination attempts” to occur, most likely; eventually culminating in a deadly shot or knife to the belly (so it will appear) that will seriously injure or kill Trump (his body double that is). Of course, if that happens then we can expect all hell to break loose; and these string of supposed attacks against Trump will only further fan the flames of the animosity and rage Americans are harboring right now on both sides.
Stay sharp, brethren, because as we get closer to the election in a few weeks, and after, it is going to be such an incredibly rocky road going forward; and that’s putting it mildly.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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all of these supposed attempts just feels like the right wing establishment’s way of trying to justify taking away our guns. Especially IF and when they are “successful” at the killing of DJT
You’re probably right. Trump himself is pro-red flag laws, so I would not be shocked if he is selected if he seeks to impose strict gun laws.
Definitely a possibility brother