The man who was arrested outside a Southern California rally for former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the cops who cuffed him.
Vem Miller, 49, accused Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco of defamation and said authorities violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Miller, a Las Vegas resident, traveled to the Coachella Valley to attend Trump’s rally Saturday afternoon. At a checkpoint outside the event, deputies with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department detained Miller after learning he had loaded weapons inside his vehicle.
Bianco later told reporters that his office “probably” stopped a third assassination attempt on the former president.
But Miller, who posted $5,000 bail and was released on Sunday, has said publicly that he’s a Trump supporter and previously brought his weapons to Trump rallies in Nevada.
“Bianco, intentionally, maliciously and with a blatant disregard for the truth, wanted to create a narrative so as to be viewed as a ‘heroic’ sheriff who saved presidential candidate Trump from a third assassination attempt,” his lawsuit reads, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The suit says FBI and Secret Service agents had no interest in interviewing Miller because they knew he wasn’t a threat to Trump’s life, the Review-Journal reported.
Bianco, who also spoke at Trump’s rally on Saturday, has been rumored to be considering a campaign for governor of California in 2026. He and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department did not comment on Miller’s lawsuit.
Miller, who was charged with two misdemeanor gun crimes, is due back in California court on Jan. 2. He filed his lawsuit in federal court in Nevada.
