Armed man arrested outside Trump’s Coachella rally — 3rd assassination attempt

Breaking: Armed man arrested outside Trump’s Coachella rally — and sheriff says it was possible third assassination attempt | 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 the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

Miller — a registered Republican believed to have far right leanings — was booked for possessing a loaded firearm and a high-capacity magazine was released after posting $5,000 bail, police records show

He has an extensive history of petty run-ins with the law, sources said, and appeared to be a member of the sovereign citizens movement – a far-right movement built on conspiracy theories that believe governments have no authority over them.

The FBI calls the group “anti-government extremists,” who maintain that while they “physically reside in this country,” they remain “separate or ‘sovereign’ from the United States.”

In addition to trying to flout taxes and the court system, the FBI noted sovereign citizens are particularly opposed to traffic stops – to the point that one 25-year-old armed member was gunned down in 2023 after refusing to comply during a Utah traffic stop.

Miller has a master’s degree from UCLA, and in 2022 ran for Nevada State assembly, the newspaper reported.

He also appears to own a California-based CBD company, and has espoused conspiracy theories and virulently misogynistic rhetoric online.