Sheriff slams “strange” defamation lawsuit filed against him by man arrested at Trump rally for “fear of murder.”

The Southern California sheriff who accused a gun-toting man of plotting an assassination outside a Donald Trump rally over the weekend claims it’s “strange” that a lawsuit was filed against him so quickly.

Vem Miller, 49, is suing Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco for defamation after he and his deputies publicly claimed they “probably” prevented a third attempt on the former president’s life.

“I find it strange. “Probably the fastest lawsuit filed in history… the next business day,” Sheriff Bianco exclusively told DailyMail.com when asked about the legal action.

“You could argue that it was already prepared and planned,” he added. “It just gets weirder.”

But Miller insists the speed of legal action is because he fears his life will be at risk if his name is not cleared.

“The reason this matter was filed so quickly.” [is] because, you know, because of what happened, my life is now in danger,” Miller told DailyMail.com.

“I was told by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department that because of some of these headline readers who didn’t figure out that this thing was purely a scam, there might be some mentally unbalanced individuals who would do something – almost like that like Lee.” “Harvey Oswald-Jack Ruby situation where I might be killed by a person to protect Donald Trump,” he explained.

“And so I was told that the best thing for me was to be in the jurisdiction of Las Vegas and be protected by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police because they don’t want me to be murdered,” he continued. “Especially after it’s pretty clear that everything I’m saying is true and the criminal behavior here is actually coming from Sheriff Bianco’s department, who is completely incompetent and did this very unfortunate and damaging thing.”

The sheriff speculated that the entire ordeal involving Miller was “staged” because he doesn’t understand why others don’t recognize the suspicion surrounding Miller’s actions before the rally.

Miller says Bianco was only interested in being a “media darling” in an ongoing public war of words between the two.

The Las Vegas resident went to a Trump rally in Coachella, California, with a shotgun, a loaded pistol and a high-capacity magazine in his car.

He was stopped at a checkpoint and arrested by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday when several “red flags” popped up – including a fake license plate and multiple identification documents with different variations of his name.

Bianco said during a press conference and in media interviews that his team “probably” prevented a “third assassination attempt” on Trump.

Miller, who says he is a Trump supporter, was released after posting $10,000 bail on two separate firearms charges. His court date is scheduled for early January.

Vem Miller (pictured) said he plans to take legal action against the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office after the sheriff said his team “likely” prevented a “third assassination attempt” on Donald Trump when they arrested him

He continues to deny that he attended the rally to target Trump.

“Let me see if I got this right: the next business day a lawsuit was filed with all these strange allegations and evidence from a man who had an unregistered car with fake license plates and had multiple IDs in different names, including also passports from various countries “With illegally loaded weapons,” said Bianco.

He then said that this man “tried to drive into a rally for a former president who has already had two assassination attempts on him.”

“Since no one in their right mind thinks that what he did was okay, this is looking more and more suspicious, as if it was staged, as if ‘someone’ was possibly trying to get attention,” the sheriff concluded .

Sheriff Bianco speaks during Trump’s campaign rally on Saturday, October 12, in Coachella, California

Miller claims the guns were for protection and that he had forgotten California’s gun laws. He also says he has never fired a gun and is like a “kindergartener” when it comes to firearms.

Miller’s lawsuit alleges that Sheriff Bianco fabricated his allegations to “create a narrative to be seen as a ‘heroic’ sheriff who saved presidential candidate Trump from a third assassination attempt.”

“Even after both the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation informed him that they did not believe Miller was a threat and declined to interview him, Defendant Bianco continued to make absurd allegations against Miller and hold press conferences to promote his actions to maintain a delusional and false narrative,” the lawsuit states.

Miller argues in the lawsuit that Bianco lied about providing “fake VIP” credentials to attend the Trump rally at Coachella, insisting that he was “actually given expedited special entry tickets directly by the Trump 47 campaign.” were made available”.