Local cops arrested an armed man outside Donald Trump’s Coachella Valley rally on Saturday, and the local sheriff said it may have been a third assassination attempt against the former president.
The suspect — identified as 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Vem Miller — was caught at a checkpoint about a quarter-mile from the rally with fake VIP passes to the rally and fake press passes — as well as unregistered weapons, including a loaded shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, according to the Riverside County sheriff’s office.
Miller did not have a valid ID when he was stopped at the rally checkpoint, and was detained after police searched his vehicle and found the weapons, law enforcement sources told The Post.
“We probably stopped another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said, according to Riverside Press-Enterprise.
However, the FBI does not believe this was an assassination attempt, and the former president’s life was never in danger, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Miller — a registered Republican believed to have far right leanings — was booked for possessing a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine — and was released after posting $5,000 bail, police records show.
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