A Las Vegas man was arrested with guns and fake I.D.s about a quarter mile from former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Sunday.
A Las Vegas man was arrested with guns and fake IDs about a quarter mile from former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Coachella Valley, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said Sunday.
But while the sheriff called the arrest for a thwarted assassination attempt, the man, Vem Miller, told a reporter he is a Trump supporter who bought the guns for his own safety and notified police at a checkpoint that they were in the trunk of his car.
So, who is Vem Miller?
Miller, 49, is a registered Republican who holds a master’s degree from UCLA, and who will run for state assembly in Nevada in 2022. He lost in the primary.
He told the Las Vegas Review-Journal at the time that he was running because “this country has been taken over by tyranny.” He said he supported more electric car manufacturing in Nevada and solar energy but would also want to focus on election security issues if he had been elected to office, including strengthening voter ID laws and implementing paper ballots again.
Miller also runs The America Happens Network, whose motto is “Rage against the mainstream media.”
On his LinkedIn, he wrote, “For 20 years +, I have been working in the media as an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker, and a content producer… I have seen our rights be taken, while the power of big government grows I have seen small businesses and the middle class be squashed. I have seen illegal mandates and politicians acting like dictators. I have also seen how the power of the money flows through politics and a political class that no longer works for We The People. “
Bianco said Miller appeared to be a part of or have an affinity for so-called sovereign citizens, a group of people who do not believe they are subject to any government statutes unless they consent to them.
In his interview with a reporter, Miller flatly denied that.
On Instagram, Miller has numerous pictures with various notable Republicans or figures who have endorsed former President Trump such as Robert F.
