The sheriff who arrested an armed man outside the Trump rally in Coachella, California, told The Epoch Times that the man said he intended to “kill the president.” The Secret Service says the former president was not in any danger.
At around 5 p.m. local time and before former President Donald Trump arrived on-site, deputies assigned to the rally encountered the driver of a black SUV at a checkpoint at the intersection of Avenue 52 and Celebration Drive, said the sheriff’s department in a news alert on Oct. 13. The driver was initially allowed through an outer security perimeter.
“As he got to the inside perimeter, where deputies were conducting obviously a more thorough evaluation of the vehicles that were coming in, there were many irregularities that popped up,” the sheriff said. The interior of the vehicle was in disarray and it had a fake license plate, prompting further investigation. The driver had multiple passports with multiple names and multiple driver’s licenses with different names, and the vehicle was unregistered. Authorities found unregistered weapons.
