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AROUND THE COUNTRY RIVERSIDE, CA. Man arrested outside Trump Coachella rally sues California sheriff over claims he was potential assassin. BY Stepheny Price, Fox News A man who says he was wrongfully accused of a potential assassination attempt on former President Trump at a California campaign rally Saturday has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff who made the accusations. “They essentially dropped a nuclear bomb into my life where my life will never be the same, regardless. You know, there’s a legal word called restitution, which means to make you whole again after a calamity like this. And there is no ultimate restitution in this,” Trump supporter Vem Miller told Fox News Digital. “You know, the internet is forever. Essentially, they did incredibly damaging things to my life.” Miller, of Nevada, was arrested for possessing firearms outside the Republican presidential nominee’s rally in Coachella over the weekend, and says he was given a VIP pass to the rally and has an extensive media and political history. “They keep saying that I was trying to get into the Trump rally with guns, which is highly inaccurate. The accurate description of what I was trying to do is that I was trying to go to a private parking lot, park my car, then walk at least a quarter-of-amile,” Miller said. Miller said if he was estimating correctly, the parking area was at least half a mile away from the actual perimeter of the rally, which he says was intentionally set up that way. “It is set up purposefully that way, because guns are not the only way to assassinate people. It’s also car bombs. So you don’t want to have cars like a Timothy McVeigh-style situation near the rally. So these are two distinctly separate locations,” Miller explained. “So that has to be characterized correctly, because I would not be so foolish to think that. And I think people know at this point from my talk, my demeanor and all that stuff, my work that I’ve done, like, I’m not going to make a stupid mistake like that.” When he was stopped on his way into the rally, Miller told officers he had a shotgun, a loaded handgun, and a high-capacity magazine. Miller claims he has never fired them, but he started keeping them with him when he started getting death threats. “The guns, by the way, that we’re talking about, which is, I don’t know, like a four-footlong shotgun and a Glock. None of them are automatic. None of them are rifles. None of them are even the kind of accuracy you would need in order to execute 50 The Blues - November ‘24

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