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What’s the Deal with This Guy Arrested with Guns at the Saturday Trump Rally?

President Donald Trump held one of his biggest rallies of all time in Coachella, CA, last weekend. Some estimates put the crowd size at over 100,000 people.

Of course, the big news from the rally was the arrest of a guy who may or may not have been there to try to make another assassination attempt against the president.

There have been all sorts of claims made about the suspect. Some claim he’s a big-time Trump supporter. Others note that he has a lot of spook-like qualities, similar to Ryan Routh and Thomas Crooks. What really happened Saturday?

The initial reports said that a would-be assassin named Vem Miller from Las Vegas was arrested trying to get into the rally and was found to have multiple firearms, including a loaded one.

Reports also initially stated that Miller confessed to police that he was there to “kill the president.” This turned out to be completely fake news. Miller never said any such thing. He was taken into custody, charged with two California misdemeanor gun crimes, and soon released on $5,000 bond.

It looked and sounded as if sheriff’s deputies had prevented a third assassination attempt against President Trump. Then it started to get weird.

 

Numerous conservative social media characters started coming out of the woodwork in support of Vem Miller. They said he’s a die-hard MAGA supporter and a conservative documentary filmmaker. He’s taken selfies with the QAnon shaman from January 6th. He was photographed at a Trump rally in another state earlier this year standing just a couple of feet away from Donald Trump, Jr.

One report indicated that an insider with the Trump campaign said there was “no assassination attempt” at the rally. That’s technically true since we don’t know what Miller’s motive was.

A vigorous defense of Miller’s character was mounted, especially on X.com (formerly Twitter). Miller himself put out a video claiming the whole thing was a frame-up and that he’s an innocent Trump supporter.

This just doesn’t match up with the details described by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. He’s a solid, constitutional sheriff and Riverside County is lucky to have him. Sheriff Bianco gave California Gov. Gavin Newsom a double-barreled middle finger during the state’s COVID mandates and refused to allow any of his deputies to enforce the dumb COVID rules.

During the press conference, Sheriff Bianco says that deputies stopped “Vem Miller” at the outer perimeter of the event. They immediately noticed that his vehicle had fake homemade license plates on it. It also had fake registration tags and was not in fact registered at all.

“Miller” didn’t have just one loaded firearm in his vehicle. He had two. One was a loaded shotgun and the other was a handgun with what California illegally classifies as a “high-capacity magazine.” He was charged with carrying a loaded firearm and possessing a high-capacity magazine.

“Vem Miller” also had at least three fake driver’s licenses and three fake passports in his possession. Some of the fake identities on those documents included Vem Venovkian, Vem Steinberg, and Vsem Venovkian. He has personal and familial ties to Armenia, Great Britain, and Canada. He also had some kind of fake VIP credentials to try to get into the rally.

Is anyone else’s “spidey sense” tingling yet?

Maybe Vem Miller—if that’s his real name—really was a Trump supporter who just made a boneheaded move and ran afoul of California’s draconian gun laws. But Sheriff Bianco raised a very good point during the press conference.

50,000 other people went through that same checkpoint and they didn’t bring half a dozen fake IDs in an unregistered vehicle with loaded firearms in it. The whole thing is sketchy, as Sheriff Bianco notes, so it’s hard to even come up with a proper conspiracy theory about this one. A lot of different parts of the story don’t add up.

Here is Sheriff Bianco’s entire press conference about the incident, which has a lot more information in it:


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