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Rally is getting some support from his business associate, who is also a staunch Trump supporter, as Jim Ray reports, she

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says he is one of us. She is the business partner of the suspect arrested with loaded weapons outside a Trump rally, and she is coming forward to say he is no assassin.

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They knew he wasn't a threat. They give him a ticket, they send him on his way, and then somehow, I don't know, the sheriff decides he's going to be a hero. This is going to be him thwarting some master plan to assassinate Trump. And it's simply not true.

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44 year old Mindy Robinson is a former actress. She's appeared on the reality show Millionaire Matchmaker looking for love. Her business associate Vem Miller was arrested at the Trump rally in Coachella Saturday. He had a loaded handgun, a loaded shotgun, a high capacity magazine, and multiple passports. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco claimed it all pointed to an assassination plot, but Mindy Robinson insists there's a reasonable explanation he

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had multiple passports because he's a dual citizen with Canada. That's not, you know, and he has some crazy Armenian last name I can't spell, so he always goes by Miller. These are not bizarre things.

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Miller is also speaking out today to inside edition, claiming he's been unfairly painted as a potential assassin. Now,

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I'm a huge Trump supporter. I wanted the president to be protected. I've been to, you know, 20 something Trump events. I've been to private Trump events where it's like 200 people in the room and Trump is literally within touching distance driving up

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to a rally with loaded guns in your trunk. A lot of people would say, what were you thinking to do that? Of course, you were going to be arrested.

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I was never trying to enter a Trump rally with a gun. I was going to a parking lot, private parking lot, and I was going to walk quite a distance to get to the Trump rally. Trump rally.

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Miller now tells the LA Times he plans to file a massive lawsuit against Riverside County where he was arrested. I.

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