Anti-Trump Comedian Arrested After Calling In Bomb Threat

Joe Simonson

Former Silicon Valley star and comedian T.J. Miller was arrested Monday night on charges that he called in a fake bomb threat while on a train headed for Connecticut.

Miller called 911 and told police that a woman onboard had a bomb after an argument erupted between the two, according to a Department of Justice press release,

No evidence of a bomb was found onboard after Amtrak officials stopped and inspected the train and woman’s belongings. It also came out that Miller gave the wrong train number to the police.

An Amtrak employee disputed Miller’s summary of events and told police that he appeared “intoxicated” and belligerent.

“The attendant stated that MILLER appeared intoxicated upon boarding in Washington, that he consumed multiple drinks on the train, and that he had been removed in New York owing to his intoxication. The attendant also advised that MILLER had been involved in hostile exchanges with a woman who was sitting in a different row from him in the First Class car.”

Miller has since been released from custody on $100,000 bond Tuesday morning. He faces up to five years in prison.

In an interview with the Huffington Post in 2017, Miller said that leaving the hit HBO show helped give him time to resist President Donald Trump’s agenda.

“My position [to oppose the Trump administration] became more powerful when I left ‘Silicon Valley,’” Miller said. “I had more control over the content, the time, the schedule, the everything.”

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