UPDATE: Riverside County Sheriff Says Suspect Never Said He Was ‘Going to Kill the President’

Sheriff Chad Bianco told The Epoch Times that he was given ‘bad info.’
UPDATE: Riverside County Sheriff Says Suspect Never Said He Was ‘Going to Kill the President’
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump walks onstage for a campaign rally in Coachella, Calif., on Oct. 12, 2024. Mario Tama/Getty Images
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COACHELLA, Calif.—Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told The Epoch Times on Oct. 14 that a previous statement he made—that a suspect arrested on Oct. 12 outside a rally by former President Donald Trump had said that he was “going to kill the president”—was in fact incorrect and based on ”bad info.”

“He never said it. It was bad info ... given to me. He never told a deputy that,” he told The Epoch Times in a text message.