Concerns of a potential third assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life occurred over the weekend after 49-year-old Vem Miller was arrested on gun charges near Trump’s rally in Coachella, California. The former president “was not in any danger” stated the US Secret Service in a joint statement with the FBI and Department of Justice.
CNN reports that according to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, once the man, identified by the sheriff as 49-year-old Vem Miller of Las Vegas, made it to the second perimeter, authorities realized some “irregularities,” Bianco said. The interior of the car was in disarray, the vehicle was unregistered, and it had a fake license plate, according to Bianco.
Miller was in possession of multiple driver’s licenses and passports with different names, according to Bianco. It is unclear why Miller was in the area, according to Bianco, who said Miller claimed to be a journalist to gain entry to the rally.
Miller was taken into custody before Trump’s rally and charged with firearms offenses. He was later released on $5,000 bail, according to the sheriff’s office and so far, no federal charges have been filed.
“I always travel around with my firearms in the back of my truck,” Miller told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. He says he has never fired them, but he started keeping them with him when he started getting death threats. “I’ve literally never even shot a gun in my life,” Miller said.
“I don’t know anything about guns. I am beyond a novice,” he continued.
Miller said he has been a 30-year member of the media and started work after graduating from high school. He has also worked on music videos and TV shows with major artists, and launched America Happens Network to combat “censorship” in the media. It was while doing this work that Miller told Fox he began receiving death threats, and purchased his firearms.
Miller said he was a Democrat growing up, and thought Barack Obama was going to “save us from needless wars and censorship.”
“I’m certainly more Republican now,” he says, and described himself and his business partner as more libertarian.
“Yes, I’m 100% a Trump supporter,” Miller said, adding that he was “all-in” with Trump by 2018.
“This is a man that I deeply admire, because I was a closet individual in terms of my beliefs, because I worked in Hollywood. As my politics started to change, I realized that Hollywood is a homogenous community,” Miller continued.
Miller said he flirted with Sanders “without realizing the implications of socialism” but now, and since 2018, he has “Constitutional beliefs,” calling Trump a “visual example of freedom of speech.”
Miller even called Trump “brave” and said he admires the former president for going after the media.
When asked about all the fake ID’s and passports he had in his car, Miller claimed not one of them was a fake.
“None of those are fake,” he says of the passes and IDs that were in his possession.
Miller says he’s Armenian and has documents that use his full Armenian name and documents that don’t, because using those documents in some places around the world could get him killed, referring to campaigns over the centuries to murder Armenians.
