I don't understand where the Sheriff reached his conclusion this guy was some sort of Boogaloo.
Those are the vibes I'm getting. I remember the last time the leftists in the press tried this misdirection. They tried framing the violence against cops instigated by the leftist rhetoric glorifying
#BLM, Antifa, and other cop-hating extremists as being perpetrated by those on the political right, and these fringe ultraconservative movements. It was bullshit back then, 98% of the violence against the cops was committed by anti-police leftists, there were only a tiny few outliers of crazy anti-government right-wingers killing cops.
The leftists on this board also didn't want to admit it was liberal-aligned sympathies which drove the previous assassination attempts on Trump, but in both cases, that's clearly what turned out to be the motives (the first was most vocally critical of Trump and conservatives on immigration policy proposals and rhetoric; the second was deeply critical of Trump and conservatives on the issue of the Ukraine).
But that appears to be what this Sheriff believes, that this guy is some sort of Boogaloo, and the police usually have well-founded suspicions. Furthermore, this particular Sheriff is an overtly conservative firebrand who has been deeply critical of Gavin Newsom.
Yet the arrested man avows support for Trump, and he denies an affinity for "Sovereign Citizens". It's strangest of all that the perpetrator is so well educated.
The extreme anti-government gun nuts aren't typically educated conservatives.