(NewsNation) — Vem Miller, the Las Vegas man arrested Saturday for possessing aggregate guns and fake property passes extracurricular of a run rally for erstwhile President Donald Trump, tells “Dan Abrams Live” helium had nary specified things connected him.
"I didn't person fake passports. They were valid passports. I didn't person fake IDs. That's a mendacious accusation," Miller said.
A self-proclaimed "kindergarten kid erstwhile it comes to guns," Miller said helium was stopped and arrested due to the fact that weapon laws alteration from Nevada to California.
"I've ne'er owned guns successful in California. I've owned guns successful Nevada. And successful Nevada, you're allowed to person the mag loaded up successful the gun. Apparently, successful California, they have to beryllium separated," helium said.
While that ineligible quality is true, NewsNation's Jesse Weber pointed retired that whether the guns were loaded oregon not, bringing a limb to a erstwhile president's rally aft two erstwhile attempts connected his beingness would beryllium tenable origin for instrumentality enforcement concern.
Miller, a registered Republican, pointed to constabulary misconduct and his ain past arsenic the laminitis of "The America Happens Network," which helium claims has gotten him immoderate decease threats for "exposing corruption."
"Are you saying that you were specifically targeted by the sheriff successful instrumentality enforcement, oregon that you were picked up for a crushed oregon being made a scapegoat?" Weber asked.
"I'm being made immoderate you telephone it, a targeted scapegoat. But thing they did is lawful. I did not bash thing that they were claiming I did," Miller responded.
He reportedly claims to beryllium a sovereign citizen, an anti-government radical that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco associated with him during a Sunday quality conference.
Miller besides pointed to reports of his merchandise connected a $5,000 enslaved Sunday arsenic false, telling NewsNation "there was ne'er a bail successful the concern astatine all, whatsoever." Multiple outlets, including USA Today and Fox News, reported his bail release.
Federal agencies said the Republican nominee “was not successful immoderate danger” astatine the event, and person not released immoderate further accusation astir pursuing higher charges against Miller.
Miller, however, has promised a suit against those who arrested him.
"The sheriff is going to beryllium investigated, is going to suffer his position," helium said. "The lawman sheriff that was portion of this is going to beryllium investigated, is going to suffer his position. There's going to beryllium a monolithic lawsuit."
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco besides joined “Dan Abrams Live” connected Tuesday, saying his bureau did each it needed to bash to prevent immoderate violence astatine the former's president's rally.
On Sunday, Bianco told a country afloat of media: “If you are asking maine close now, I astir apt did person deputies that stopped the 3rd assassination attempt.”
Federal agencies haven't announced immoderate movements to classify Miller's apprehension arsenic a 3rd assassination attempt, arsenic Trump wasn't adjacent astatine the rally erstwhile the apprehension happened. It's thing Bianco told NewsNation helium tin "understand ... successful a factual position and context."
"I judge that they are inactive going to beryllium looking into Mr. Miller and wherefore helium could person been there, oregon making definite it was legitimate," Bianco said. "But we are extracurricular of their investigation, and ours was strictly the halt with the guns, and that's what we arrested him for."
Miller, a noted Trump instrumentality connected societal media, has posted respective 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 cognize thing astir Mr. Miller. There is perfectly nary mode for america to cognize thing astir Mr. Miller. All my lawman knows is astatine the interior perimeter, helium has a antheral showing up with firearms who has aggregate IDs, aggregate passports with antithetic names and a conveyance that is not registered to anyone, with fake papers," Bianco explained.