Fox 5 News Who is Vem Miller, what we know about suspect

Speaker 1 0:00
California authorities arresting then releasing a man who had two guns outside a Trump rally. Now

Speaker 2 0:06
that suspect has since denied the local county sheriff's claims that he was planning to assassinate the former president. Good day is Robert Moses. He joins us live from midtown with the latest on this situation and also the race for the White House. Robert Good morning,

Speaker 3 0:21
Shawnee and Dan, good morning to you. In an interview with Fox News digital, this suspect described himself as 100% a Trump supporter. At this point, he faces no federal charges a little more than three weeks before Election Day, with 22 days to go until Election Day. Both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris descend on Pennsylvania, a battleground state that each views as a must win. The former president will hold a town hall in OAKS just outside Philadelphia at six tonight, about an hour and a half later, the Vice President campaigns on the other side of the state in Erie on Saturday, before former President Trump held a rally in Coachella, California, the Riverside County Sheriff's Office arrested 49 year old Vem Miller, a self described supporter of the former President, as he tried to enter according to Sheriff Chad bianco, a deputy found a loaded handgun, A shotgun and high capacity magazine in Miller's unregistered vehicle, the deputy also discovered passports with multiple names and driver's licenses with different names,

Speaker 4 1:29
if you're asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination attempt, but

Speaker 3 1:35
in a joint statement the U S attorney's office Secret Service and F B I said the former president was, quote, not in any danger. Miller was released on just $5,000 bail. Asked if he was being overly dramatic in his assessment of the arrest. Bianco, who has been highly critical of Democratic leaders, responded this way, if we are that

Unknown Speaker 1:55
politically

Speaker 4 2:00
lost that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason, that we can't say that, holy crap. What did he show up with all of that stuff for and loaded guns? And we're going to, and we're, and I'm going to be accused of being dramatic. We have a serious, serious problem in this country. I.

Transcribed by https://otter.ai