The self-styled MAGA supporter arrested for showing up to Donald Trump’s California rally with a slew of guns said he is planning a “massive lawsuit” against the local sheriff who publicly suggested he was out to assassinate the former president.
Vem Miller, 49, told the Los Angeles Times that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco committed “career suicide” by speculating that his arrest had “probably stopped another assassination attempt.”
“As of right this second, I could prove everything they said is untrue. It’s just going to be bad. That sheriff is going to lose his job,” Miller told the outlet, adding that his lawyers are preparing the “massive lawsuit.”
“Everything they said about me is untrue, provably so,” Miller added. “Unfortunately, he appears to have committed career suicide.”
Miller has said he had the weapons in his truck for personal protection, and that he is “100% a Trump supporter” who was innocently at Saturday’s Coachella Valley rally to cover it as a journalist.
“In observance of my 1st Amendment rights, I carry firearms in my truck,” he told the LA Times, insisting there was nothing untoward about the guns, which neither the Secret Service nor the FBI has said is being investigated as a planned assassination attempt.
Still, the sheriff said he doesn’t “regret anything” about his handling of it, and dismissed the threat of a lawsuit.
“He can say anything he wants to try and minimize his involvement in this, or threaten to sue,” Bianco told Fox 11, while saying that “everyone threatens to sue.”
“I’m not sure what he’s going to sue about. He showed up to a Trump rally in a secondary checkpoint in an unregistered vehicle with fake license plates, multiple IDs and guns. We arrested him for those. He can sue whatever he wants.”
Miller was nabbed outside the rally after authorities said he tried to enter with a press pass — prompting a search of his unregistered black SUV.
At a press conference announcing his arrest, the sheriff said Miller had a cache of fake passports and driver’s licenses, along with a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine, stashed in his vehicle.
The sheriff went on to say that he “truly” believed his department halted an assassination attempt, though he acknowledged it was “speculation.”
“What his frame of mind was, all we can do is speculate,” Bianco said at the time. “If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt.”
Miller, who was booked on suspicion of possessing loaded firearms and later released on a $5,000 bond, has slammed the sheriff’s allegations as “bulls–t” in a series of media interviews.
He has also repeatedly insisted that he brought in the weapons for personal protection because of death threats he’s received since launching his America Happens Network — a series of podcasts, docuseries, and shows to combat “censorship.”
His threats of litigation emerged after Miller — a film and TV industry professional who has long railed against the US government and mainstream media — told Fox News he was a staunch Trump supporter who has “never” shot a gun in his life.
“Yes, I’m 100% a Trump supporter,” he told the outlet. “This is a man that I deeply admire.”
The Post has reached out to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office.
