While that legal difference is true, NewsNation’s Jesse Weber pointed out that whether the guns were loaded or not, bringing a weapon to a former president’s rally after two previous attempts on his life would be reasonable cause for law enforcement concern.
Miller, a registered Republican , pointed to police misconduct and his own past as the founder of “The America Happens Network,” which he claims has gotten him some death threats for “exposing corruption.”
“Are you saying that you were specifically targeted by the sheriff in law enforcement, or that you were picked up for a reason or being made a scapegoat?” Weber asked.
“I’m being made whatever you call it, a targeted scapegoat. But nothing they did is lawful. I did not do anything that they were claiming I did,” Miller responded.
He reportedly claims to be a sovereign citizen, an anti-government group that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco associated with him during a Sunday news conference.
Miller also pointed to reports of his release on a $5,000 bond Sunday as false, telling NewsNation “there was never a bail in the situation at all, whatsoever.” Multiple outlets, including USA Today and Fox News , reported his bail release.
Federal agencies said the Republican nominee “was not in any danger” at the event, and have not released any further information about pursuing higher charges against Miller.
Miller, however, has promised a lawsuit against those who arrested him.
“The sheriff is going to be investigated, is going to lose his position,” he said. “The deputy sheriff that was part of this is going to be investigated, is going to lose his position. There’s going to be a massive lawsuit.”
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco also joined “Dan Abrams Live” on Tuesday, saying his agency did all it needed to do to prevent any violence at the former’s president’s rally.
On Sunday, Bianco told a room full of media: “If you are asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that stopped the third assassination attempt.”
Federal agencies haven’t announced any movements to classify Miller’s arrest as a third assassination attempt, as Trump wasn’t even at the rally when the arrest happened. It’s something Bianco told NewsNation he can “understand … in a factual perspective and context.”
“I believe that they are still going to be looking into Mr. Miller and why he could have been there, or making sure it was legitimate,” Bianco said. “But we are outside of their investigation, and ours was strictly the stop with the guns, and that’s what we arrested him for.”
Miller, a noted Trump fan on social media, has posted several pictures of himself with celebrities during the Republican National Convention, including Dennis Quaid, Russell Brand, Newt Gingrich, Steve Bannon and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Bianco emphasized that Miller’s GOP affiliation is “irrelevant” to his arrest.
“We know nothing about Mr. Miller. There is absolutely no way for us to know anything about Mr. Miller. All my deputy knows is at the inner perimeter, he has a man showing up with firearms who has multiple IDs, multiple passports with different names and a vehicle that is not registered to anyone, with fake papers,” Bianco explained.
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