Eric Trump now carries a badge — and the authority to make arrests — in St. Lucie County. On Tuesday, as Hurricane Milton bore down on Florida’s Gulf Coast, St. Lucie Sheriff Keith Pearson swore in Donald Trump’s second-eldest son as a Special Deputy.

If everything Mr. Miller has said is true, and I really hope it is, then he probably wasn’t there to hurt former President Trump,' Sheriff Chad Bianco said.

A friend of Vem Miller said a law-enforcement officer labeling the incident at a rally as an assassination attempt was "insane."