UPDATE: Vem Miller Breaks Silence to Deny Assassination Attempt

 

The man arrested outside Donald Trump’s Coachella rally has broken his silence, confirming he’s a supporter of the former president and denied he was attempting to shoot him.

Vem Miller, 49, is a registered Republican who allegedly tried to present fake VIP credentials at a Trump rally on Saturday and then found himself arrested on illegal firearms charges.

Miller said he told law enforcement about the guns as a courtesy, in an interview with The Press-Enterprise.

The 49-year-old said he received a special invitation to the Coachella Valley rally from the head of Clark County’s Republican Party.

Mr Miller claimed he had his vehicle was “ransacked” after he alerted officers to the guns. He alleged he bought the firearms in 2022 for protection after receiving death threats.

He added that he had never fired them and claimed he was unfamiliar with the difference between gun laws in Nevada and California

The assassination plot suspect also denied claims he presented a press pass at the checkpoint, alleging that he told security he had a  “special entry pass”.

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.

‘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.

Miller also says that there are no falsified IDs on his person, 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 was a part of an anti-government ‘sovereign citizens’ movement.

‘That’s a nonsensical statement. I don’t think there’s such a thing,’ he said, calling it equally ‘nonsensical’ that Bianco saw him as ‘far right.’

‘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 does have a somewhat checkered past, according to files obtained by DailyMail.

He 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’ the kids 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 the legal complaint.

‘I am from LA, where I have lived since I was 15 years old, for nearly 30 years.’

He claimed he successfully fought a 22-month legal case in Canada and got his kids back, but a ‘corrupt judge’ returned them to the UK after three months

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, he 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 bizarre 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.’

A friend and business partner of Miller told DailyMail earlier Sunday he is a full-blown Trump supporter and slammed police for ‘not understanding he’s one of us’.

Right-wing documentarian Mindy Robinson said Miller has been a MAGA activist for years, had no intention of killing the former president, and said she has been to several pro-Trump events with him.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Robinson described Miller as a journalist and 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.’

That backs up what federal agencies have been saying about the arrest.

Secret Service sources told the New York Post they doubt Miller was going to try to kill Trump and the FBI is not investigating the incident as an assassination attempt.

Miller reportedly called the idea of going after Trump ‘complete bulls***.’

‘He had no intention to kill Trump,’ Robinson added. ‘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.’

Robinson slammed Riverside County cops, who stopped Miller at a checkpoint on Saturday, where he allegedly presented them with a fake press and VIP pass for the Coachella Trump rally, then searched his car and found illegal guns.

‘It sounds like it was an excuse to get in the car, look at his sh** mess of a car, and that’s when they found a gun. But every gun is illegal in California, it’s stupid,’ she said, referring to California’s stricter gun laws compared to some other states.

‘I couldn’t go because I was having some minor surgery. Thank God, because we probably would have carpooled and it’d be a hot mess.

‘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 right, including Vivek Ramaswamy, Steven Bannon and Roger Stone. He even got up close to Donald Trump Jr. at one GOP event.

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