Vem Miller alleged Donald Trump would be assassinator denies ever trying to kill the former president, saying he’s a MAGA activist and was only carrying the weapons cause as ‘far right’ media content creator often gets death threats and that police jumped the gun in arresting him cause of California’s ‘too strict gun laws.’
A man arrested at Coachella on a number of weapons violations after he was found trying to enter former President Donald Trump’s rally with fake VIP passes has denied ever attempting to assassinate the former president after illegally acquired weapons were found in his vehicle.
Addressing allegations that he had sought to kill Trump, Vem Miller, 49, stated he was a ‘big supporter’ of the former president.
Miller, is a registered Republican according to ‘best friend’ and business partner, Mindy Robinson who claimed Miller is a full-blown Trump supporter and ‘MAGA activist’. Robinson also criticised police for ‘not understanding he’s one of us’.
Who is Vem Miller and what are his political views?
Miller who is the Partner co-Founder of the America Happens Network, an alleged rightwing ‘anti-government’ entity out of California (more on that below) said he kept firearms in his car to protect himself against death threats.
Miller claimed never having fired one before and saying he’s ‘beyond a novice’ about them.
‘I’ve literally never even shot a gun in my life,’ Miller told media. ‘I don’t know anything about guns.’
Amid allegations of a fake ID and VIP passes during checkout, Miller during a search of his (unregistered) vehicle was found to illegally possess a shotgun, a loaded handgun and a high-capacity magazine. Allegations which Miller explains by way of California ‘having way too tight gun laws.’
‘I’m an artist, I’m the last person that would cause any violence and harm to anybody,‘ he told the Press Enterprise, adding the accusations were ‘complete bulls***.’
When asked by Fox News about his political beliefs, he confirmed: ‘Yes, I’m 100% a Trump supporter.’
He added that while he’d supported Democrat Barack Obama in the past, thinking he would ‘save us from needless wars and censorship,’ he’s drifted rightward to libertarianism.
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.
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Denies being anti-government
‘I’m certainly more Republican now,’ he said, claiming that he’s been ‘all-in’ on Trump since 2018.
Miller said that he briefly flirted with supporting Bernie Sanders ‘without realizing the implications of socialism’ but has come to see Trump as ‘a visual example of freedom of speech.’
‘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,’ he added.
Addressing the allegations of fake passes and falsified ID’s on his person, Miller said that there was confusion because he’s Armenian and some use his full birth name and others don’t to avoid potential anti-Armenian sentiment around the world.
His 2021 court documents list his name as ‘Vem Vim Yenovkian’, also known as ‘Vem Miller Yenovkian’.
Miller filed in Clark County, Nevada to change his name to Vem Miller in 2022. The court appears to have granted the request.
He further denied accusations made by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco that he and his foundation, ‘The America Happens Network’ was a part of an anti-government ‘sovereign citizens’ movement.
‘That’s a nonsensical statement. I don’t think there’s such a thing,’ Miller told the dailymail, calling it equally ‘nonsensical’ that Bianco saw him as ‘far right.’
Adding, ‘Government is an inanimate object, it’s the individuals within government that matter, so no, I’m not a part of any of that. They’re saying that I’m part of these right-wing anti-government groups? Why aren’t they naming these groups? Because it doesn’t exist.’
Miller sues ex wife and financial dealings
Nevertheless Miller does seem to have some dubious colorful dealings in the past, raising eyebrows, including legal procedures against his ex wife.
Miller married Sonia Gulian, 46, and had two children with her – but appears to have divorced and sued her in federal court in 2021 claiming she ‘kidnapped’ their children and took them to the UK while he was working in Canada.
‘My ex wife Sonia Helen Gulian and her parents Zvart Gulian and Shahe Gulian kidnapped my American Children, who are born and raised in Los Angeles, California, while I was working in Toronto, Canada on a brief 2 year contract,’ he wrote in a legal complaint cited by the dailymail.
‘I am from LA, where I have lived since I was 15 years old, for nearly 30 years.’
Miller claims successfully fighting a 22-month legal case in Canada and getting his kids back, only for a ‘corrupt judge’ (Miller’s words) to return them to the UK after three months.
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.
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The judge dismissed the case as ‘frivolous due to lack of subject-matter jurisdiction’ two days after Miller filed his complaint.
UK company records list Gulian as a director of a Christian organization in Berkshire, England, appointed in February this year.
In an unsuccessful appeal in June 2021, Miller claimed that he had no income and only $4,000 in a checking account and a 2018 Kia Optima to his name.
However, property records show that he purchased a house in Henderson, Nevada for $240,000 in 2015, and previously owned a property in Studio City, Los Angeles.
‘All my costs of living are currently being paid by a 501C3 non profit corporation that is helping me with this legal process,’ he wrote in the filing, adding that the nonprofit was based in Las Vegas, though not naming the organization.
In another ‘un-usual’ legal complaint filed in Los Angeles in 2013, Miller claimed a company he was working with on a reality TV show had ‘planted a kilogram of white powder in [Miller’s] office, caused a private investigator to “find” the material and falsely accused [Miller] of drug possession.’
Speaking to the dailymail, Mindy Robinson a close friend of Miller’s and a self described ‘right wing documentarian,’ described Miller as a journalist and fellow documentarian.
The two set up an independent news site AmericaHappens.com after repeatedly getting kicked off YouTube for their stories promoting conspiracy theories, including that the deadly 2017 Las Vegas shooting was a ‘cover up’ with ‘multiple shooters.’
‘He’s a big, huge Trump supporter. It’s what we’ve been doing for years,’ Robinson said. ‘He’s my friend, we work together.’
Addressing allegations that Miller had sought to assassinate Trump, Robinson said, ‘He had no intention to kill Trump.’
Adding, ‘It’s ridiculous. To me it feels like a setup, or really inadequate police work. A sh***y excuse to get in a car and try to find something wrong with a Trump supporter or something.’
‘Someone definitely jumped the gun. And the way they released it wasn’t the right way to do that either.’
She pointed to Miller’s swift release on $10,000 bail as a sign that law enforcement, and the Trump campaign, did not see him as an active threat.
‘It doesn’t make sense. Look at his social media. It goes back years, of the same politics not changing,’ she said.
Miller’s social media posts include videos at Republican events and selfies with pro-Trump media personalities popular among the alt-right, including Vivek Ramaswamy, Steven Bannon and Roger Stone. He even got up close to Donald Trump Jr. at one GOP event.
‘A lot of people have run with that story, not understanding he’s one of us, and he’s been fighting the same fight this entire time,’ Robinson stated.