Sheriff ‘Fabricated Allegations’ of Third Assassination Attempt on Trump So He Could Seem ‘Heroic’ in Arresting ‘Staunch’ Trump Supporter: Lawsuit

The 49-year-old Nevada man who was arrested at Donald Trump’s California rally on Saturday while carrying two loaded firearms has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the county and sheriff violated his constitutional rights and publicly lied about the incident when authorities said they had stopped him from attempting to assassinate the former president.

Vem Miller on Tuesday filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for Nevada in which he names Riverside County, the sheriff’s office, and Sheriff Chad Bianco as defendants. Among the causes of action for seeking damages, Miller alleges he was subjected to deprivation of his civil rights, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and false light invasion of privacy.

Miller, who was charged with one misdemeanor count each of possession of a loaded firearm and possession of a high-capacity magazine, says he is a “staunch supporter” of Trump and a Republican candidate for the Nevada Assembly who had no intention of harming the former president.

In a news release, the sheriff’s office said that at about 5 p.m. on Oct. 12, deputies assigned to Trump’s rally in Coachella Valley stopped Miller at a checkpoint and found him to be “illegally in possession of a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine.”

In a subsequent news conference, Bianco said that he “probably did have deputies that prevented a third assassination attempt” against Trump. (Read more from “Sheriff ‘Fabricated Allegations’ of Third Assassination Attempt on Trump So He Could Seem ‘Heroic’ in Arresting ‘Staunch’ Trump Supporter: Lawsuit” HERE)

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