Man charged at Trump rally threatens lawsuit
The Las Vegas man arrested for gun possession at former President Trump’s Coachella Valley rally said he would sue the Riverside County sheriff’s office for “lying” about his actions in a Monday appearance on NewsNation’s “Dan Abrams Live.”
“Oh yeah, the sheriff’s office is lying and they’re about to get hit with a lawsuit,” Vem Miller said in the interview. “The sheriff is going to be investigated, he’s going to lose his position, the deputy sheriff that was a part of this is going to be investigated, he’s going to lose his position, there’s going to be a massive lawsuit.”
Miller, a former candidate for Nevada’s State Assembly and a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, said he always carries a firearm for protection. He said he receives constant “death threats” for exposing corrupt officials on his website AmericaHappens.com.
In the interview, Miller claimed that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco is aspiring to be the governor of California and wants to boost his name.
“We’re looking at a sheriff that wants to be governor, he’s trying to use this situation to basically boost his name,” Miller alleged. “He has political aspirations. I know that for a fact.”
Bianco said his agency acted accordingly to prevent any violence at Trump’s rally.
“If you are asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that stopped the third assassination attempt,” the sheriff told members of the media Sunday.
Miller has said he’s an avid Trump supporter who had no intentions of harming the former president. He told Abrams he’s a Trump caucus president in Nevada.
“Everyone knows that I’ve been very involved within the Republican Party in Nevada, and I helped get votes for the former president for his primary campaign,” Miller said.
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Miller claims the recent allegations have defamed his name and tarnished his reputation. He said various attorneys have reached out to him with hopes of representing him in a “massive lawsuit.”
“Lawyers have actually been reaching out to me really very passionately wanting to get a part of this lawsuit because they realize I have a massive lawsuit, I have been worldwide defamed, my name’s been destroyed, I go down to a coffee shop people stare at me like they’re looking at a monster because of all these false allegations, and their demonstrably false,” Miller stated.
The Hill has reached out to the Riverside County sheriff’s office for comment.
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