Armed man with fake pass stopped at Trump rally, while ex-president says his opponents could be ‘handled’ by military: Live
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Donald Trump said the bigger problem for the US than foreign influence or migrants is “the enemy from within” whom he characterized as “sick people, radical left lunatics”, a term he often applies to Democratic opponents.
The former president told Maria Bartiromo on Fox News‘ Sunday Morning Futures that they — US citizens — “should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military”.
On Saturday evening, Trump held a rally at Coachella in California where an armed man with a fake pass was apprehended by police before the event.
The California rally came hours after Kamala Harris released her medical information in a challenge to Trump, whose health and age are coming under increased scrutiny, particularly in light of recent long, rambling, and at times incoherent speeches, which the vice president invited people to watch to make up their own minds about the mental state of the former president.
Harris is on the campaign trail in the key battleground of North Carolina where she attended a church service before holding a rally in the city of Greenville.
New national polls show either a deadlocked race or a tightening of the Democrat’s narrow lead.
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The former president directly called out Black male voters at Harris’s campaign rally in Pittsburgh, pointing to some national and state-level polling which shows a dropoff in Black support for Democrats in 2024, compared to past election cycles — including his own.
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 23:45
California sheriff stands by theory of thwarted assassination attempt, despite suspect’s denial
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco pushed back on Sunday against a statement from Vem Miller, a Las Vegas man arrested outside a Trump rally yesterday with illegal guns and fake ID documents.
Miller has claimed he wasn’t at the event to threaten Trump, while the sheriff maintains his department stopped a likely assassination plot.
“What we do know is he showed up with multiple passports with different names, an unregistered vehicle with a fake license plate, and loaded firearms,” Bianco said at a press conference.
“If you’re asking me right now, I probably did have deputies that did prevent the third assassination attempt. If we are that politically lost, that we have lost sight of common sense and reality and reason, that we can’t say, hold crap, what did he show up with all of that stuff and loaded guns, and I’m going to be accused of being dramatic? We have a serious, serious problem in this country.”
“I don’t know how else to explain it,” he added.
Josh Marcus13 October 2024 23:37
Riverside County sheriff gives update on arrest of man at Trump’s Coachella rally
California officials provided additional information on Sunday about the arrest of a man at Donald Trump’s Coachella Valley rally yesterday who was potentially plotting to target the former president.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said at a press conference on Sunday that a man named Vem Miller was stopped by deputies as he attempted to pass through the inner security perimeter surrounding Trump’s rally.
Police said Miller’s SUV was in “disarray” with an “obviously fake” license plate, prompting deputies to investigate further. Upon further investigation, police found that Miller had multiple driver’s licenses and passports with different names, and possessed a loaded handgun and shotgun.
Sheriff Bianco said the markings on the license plate indicated Miller was part of “a group of individuals that claim to be ‘sovereign citizens.'”
Miller was booked on state gun charges, and Sheriff Biano said any further charges would likely come from federal officials.
Here’s our earlier report:
Josh Marcus13 October 2024 23:25
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Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 23:15
Friend of armed man apprehended at Coachella rally says ‘There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump’
Mindy Robertson, the business partner and good friend of Vem Miller, the armed man apprehended at Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, says there is no way he was there with the intention of killing the former president.
She writes on X: “The man they just arrested for supposedly ‘trying to kill’ Trump in Coachella….is my good friend and business partner for America Happens, Vem Miller.
“Vem had just exposed a huge Deep State cover-up involving the Feds and the Bundy Ranch scandal. So I firmly believe this is 100% some kind of set-up in retribution for exposing it. That, or Trump’s security team is a bunch of dipshits trying to make up for how badly they failed in Pennsylvania with any kind of “win” they can get, fake or not.
“There isn’t a universe his intention was to kill Trump, he’s worked too hard in this movement to expose the Deep State and all the people against him.”
Read the rest of her post below:
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:58
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Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:45
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Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:40
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Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:35
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Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:30
Meanwhile, in Prescott Valley, Arizona…
Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail after last night’s Coachella rally, this time in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
Recent polling has the former president ahead in the state but there are still three weeks until election day.
Oliver O’Connell13 October 2024 22:23
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