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   From: c186282@nnada.ne   
      
   Broke & Blue California wrote:   
      
   >Vem Miller, the man arrested at a Donald Trump rally in Coachella in   
   >2024 after Riverside County sheriff’s deputies confiscated two firearms   
   >from his truck, will have a charge of carrying a loaded firearm in   
   >public dismissed if he complies with a judge’s order.   
   >   
   >Miller, who pleaded not guilty to the charge, did not have to enter a   
   >guilty plea to receive what is called a misdemeanor diversion.   
   >   
   >On Jan. 29, Riverside County Superior Court Judge James Hodgkins ordered   
   >Miller to complete an eight-hour gun safety class, take an online,   
   >four-hour life skills course and complete 40 hours of community service.   
   >   
   >A hearing to determine whether the charge will be dismissed is scheduled   
   >for July 30.   
   >   
   >“There was never any controversy in this situation,” Miller, 51, said   
   >Monday. “There was never any threat. … On a spiritual level, I would   
   >have loved a complete dismissal (without the diversion).”   
   >   
   >Miller said he planned to leave the firearms in his truck.   
   >   
   >Miller, who splits his time between Nevada and Montebello, said in a   
   >previous interview that he was a caucus captain in Nevada who supported   
   >Trump and that he received an invitation to the Coachella Valley rally   
   >held on Oct. 12, 2024, from the Clark County Republican Party. As he   
   >arrived at a checkpoint for the parking lot a mile from the rally, he   
   >told deputies that he had a loaded handgun and a shotgun secured in his   
   >trunk.   
   >   
   >His car was not registered, he had multiple passports and deputies did   
   >not recognize the pass Miller showed them. That raised suspicions with   
   >the sheriff that Miller was there to make an attempt on the candidate’s   
   >life following an attempted shooting at a golf course in Florida in   
   >September 2024 by a man since sentenced to life in prison, and the   
   >wounding of Trump by a gunman in Butler, Pennsylvania, two months   
   >earlier.   
   >   
   >A day after the arrest, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said, “I   
   >probably did have deputies that prevented the third assassination   
   >attempt.”   
   >   
   >Miller insists that he never threatened to kill the man he supported for   
   >president.   
   >   
   >Miller said he bought the firearms in 2022 for protection after he   
   >started receiving death threats and that he was unfamiliar with the   
   >difference between Nevada and California gun laws. He said he has a   
   >Canadian passport that lists his legal name before he changed it. And he   
   >has a U.S. passport.   
   >   
   >The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office opposed the diversion.   
   >Deputy District Attorney Diana E. Serrano wrote in a court filing that   
   >Miller “acted deliberately by carrying an unsecured shotgun,   
   >ammunition, and a loaded firearm with a full 15-round magazine in a   
   >public place.”   
   >   
   >Miller subsequently filed a federal lawsuit against Bianco, alleging a   
   >violation of the right of freedom of assembly under the First Amendment   
   >and a violation of freedom from unreasonable search and seizure under   
   >the Fourth Amendment. Miller also alleged that Bianco committed libel   
   >and slander against him after Bianco, the lawsuit says, texted the Epoch   
   >Times: “We arrested a man trying to get in the perimeter with two   
   >firearms who ended up saying he was going to kill the president.”   
   >   
   >Miller said he never said that.   
   >   
   >Bianco and the county filed a response to the federal lawsuit in which   
   >they denied the allegations and called for the lawsuit to be dismissed,   
   >which it was by a judge.   
   >   
   >Miller’s attorney in the civil case, Ethan Bearman, has filed an   
   >appeal. Bearman said Monday that he has not yet filed a brief that will   
   >identify the grounds for appeal.   
   >   
   >The attorney said the judge did not rule on the libel and slander   
   >allegations, so those portions of the federal lawsuit were refiled in   
   >Superior Court in Riverside County.   
   >   
   >Miller, after careers as a music video producer and creator of   
   >documentaries and reality television shows, now operates the America   
   >Happens Network that produces podcasts and documentaries. Topics include   
   >the Covid pandemic, the “cover up” of the Route 91 music festival   
   >mass shooting in Las Vegas, the Deep State and, by Miller’s estimation,   
   >300 pieces on Bianco that include discussions of jail deaths and his   
   >budget.   
   >   
   >Miller said he is registered to vote in California and has not decided   
   >which gubernatorial candidate will receive his vote.   
   >   
   >“I can tell you with 100 percent certainty that it’s not Chad Bianco   
   >in the primary,” Miller said.   
   >   
   >Bianco declined to comment for this story.   
   >   
   >https://www.ocregister.com/2026/02/16/gun-charge-against-man-arrested-outs   
   >ide-trump-rally-in-coachella-headed-toward-dismissal/   
   >   
      
   Anyone opposing President Trump deserves to be chased down by a mob of   
   masked white men and shot.   
      
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