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Also new at six, we are hearing from the man who was arrested this weekend outside of former President Trump's rally in Coachella. Kcal news reporter Priyanka Ray has his response and an update from the sheriff.

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We stand facing an accusation of being behind a third assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Vem Miller says authorities have it all wrong, and he wants to set the record straight, but he's afraid it's too late.

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Damage is done, you know, it's like, I have, you know, they went fully Harvey Oswald on my name, you know, you know, frankly, I was dating a girl. She just broke up with me by text because she, you know, it's like, imagine you're dating somebody, and all of a sudden he's being called an assassin. I go today to shop for some clothes, and there's people on their cell phone, kind of looking at their cell phone, looking up at me.

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Miller posted a video online Monday morning asserting his innocence two days after he was arrested with two loaded guns in Coachella outside a Trump rally. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department says his SUV also had a fake license plate and was unregistered. Sunday Sheriff Chad Bianco said his deputies had likely thwarted an assassination attempt. However, Miller says he's a Trump supporter and never intended to harm the former president. When you look

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at this general makeup of things, it's like it's obvious, I'm not there to harm anybody, especially President Donald Trump, who I greatly admire. If

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Kamala gets four more years, the entire country will become like the migrant camp of LA and San Francisco. What

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the hell is happening to our city?

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Federal investigators have said Trump was not in danger at the rally, and a federal law enforcement source speaking with CBS News says there was no indication that this was an attempted assassination, but Sheriff biago maintains his team did the right thing.

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It doesn't change the fact of why we arrested him, the IDs, the car and the guns, and we arrested him and got him out of there before President Trump got there. Everything else is irrelevant. My deputies or myself, we are not required, or even capable of a crystal ball to know who Mr. Miller is and know what Mr. Miller is thinking. And

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even though Miller says he intends to sue the Riverside County Sheriff's Department for calling him a would be assassin, there's

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probably millions of people right now calling him a would be assassin. My my statement of of we probably did prevent the third attempt. We will never know.

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Miller remains free on $5,000 bail and is scheduled for a court appearance January 2 in India. Bianca Ray, kcal, news. I.

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