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Donald Trump supporters were left \u201cstranded\u201d for hours in sweltering conditions at the Coachella Valley rally<\/a> impacted by a suspected assination attempt on the former president. <\/p>\n The former president spoke in California on Saturday at an event plagued with issues from the offset.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Along with Trump facing an altercation with a heckler<\/a>, an armed Las Vegas man<\/a> who held ID documents under multiple names was arrested outside the rally. Authorities claim Trump may have been the target of a third assassination attempt <\/a>in as many months.<\/p>\n While thousands of supporters<\/a> were bussed into Calhoun Ranch, which was situated about five miles away from where they parked their vehicles, people attending claimed the event organizers had neglected transport for the return journey.<\/p>\n And instead of being shuttled away from the venue after Trump exited the stage at about 7pm PT following a near-90-minute address, many attendees were left stranded in 93F heat, according to video footage on social media. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cApparently the buses are no longer coming,\u201d said one attendee in the clip taken more than three hours after the rally had concluded.<\/p>\n \u201cThere used to be like 20 buses when we were being brought here, but now there\u2019s only like three buses operating.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cIt\u2019s just chaos, absolute chaos. All of us are stranded here, everyone is stranded here.\u201d<\/p>\n Another clip posted to X, which had since been deleted, saw a rally-goer reportedly claim that there was \u201conly one bus in rotation\u201d which took half an hour for each drop off.<\/p>\n In the footage, flashing lights from police cars illuminate the disgruntled faces of Trump supporters seemingly left behind, with one heard condemning the organizer\u2019s \u201cfailures\u201d that had led to the delay in being returned to the parking lot.<\/p>\n Sharing the video footage on X, The Tennessee Holler <\/em>claimed that many of those left waiting for transport to the car park were elderly.<\/p>\n Trump has yet to publicly speak of the bussing debacle, but claimed on Truth Social that 100,000 people turned out for the rally in the typically blue stronghold \u2013 which Harris currently leads by almost 27 percent, according to polling by The Hill<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n