The man accused Saturday of plotting an assassination attempt against Donald Trump at his Coachella, California rally posted an almost 18-minute video to social media Monday and denied that he had any designs on killing the GOP nominee.
The story just keeps getting weirder:
Vem Miller, 49, said he reported the guns to authorities, which he says he always travels with despite never using them, at a checkpoint to get into Trump’s Coachella rally on Saturday evening and argued that documents Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said were fake are legit.
His arrest on gun charges sparked speculation, following two assassination attempts on Trump since July. But he was quickly released on $5,000 bail 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.
JUST IN: Vem Miller, the man accused of a so-called “third Trump assassination attempt” denies these reports and pushes back in a statement released online.
Miller states he is a Trump supporter who was invited to be at the Coachella rally. He adds that he told officers he had… pic.twitter.com/TcV5hs6l86
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) October 14, 2024
He adds that he told officers he had loaded firearms in his trunk. Furthermore, he is threatening lawsuits over defamatory statements and alleged police infringement of his rights.
Background: Cops May Have Thwarted THIRD Assassination Attempt on Trump at Coachella Rally (Updated)
The already strange story got even stranger when Miller said he’d never even shot the guns in his possession:
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.
He also claimed that despite the reports that he was there to kill the former president, he is actually a committed Trump fan:
“Yes, I’m 100% a Trump supporter,” Miller said, adding that he was “all-in” with Trump by 2018.
He also denied the charge that his documents were fake, claiming that it was all a mix-up:
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.
Miller has gotten in close proximity to political figures before:
Vem Miller, who was caught with multiple illegal firearms and fake press passes just feet away from Trump’s Coachella rally in an alleged a*sassination attempt, has already been released on a $5K bail.
What’s more alarming is that Miller was recently seen in close proximity to… pic.twitter.com/ZKyz1NdYg7
— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) October 13, 2024
What’s more alarming is that Miller was recently seen in close proximity to high-profile figures like Vivek Ramaswamy, Newt Gingrich, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Donald Trump Jr.
As I noted, this is a strange story with constantly changing facts and statements. RedState will keep you updated as developments warrant.
