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Who is Vem Miller, man arrested outside Trump Coachella rally? 4 things to know
Vem Miller, the man arrested for possessing firearms outside former President Donald Trump’s rally in Coachella, California, this weekend, claims he is a Trump supporter and has an extensive media and political history.
While some observers speculated he was a threat to the rally or even Trump himself, Miller says he routinely carries his firearms in the back of his truck and never intended to hurt the former president.
Here are four key pieces of information about Vem Miller.
1. Miller claims to have an extensive media history.
Miller released a video statement more than an hour long on Rumble overnight Monday. In it, he lays out his political and professional history and says he never intended to harm Trump.
Vem Miller, the man arrested at Trump’s rally in Coachella, says he did not intend to hurt the former president. (Vem Miller)
Miller told Fox News in a Sunday interview that he has been a 30-year member of the media and started work after graduating from high school. He said he worked on music videos and TV shows with major artists, and launched America Happens Network to combat “censorship” in the media.
He added in his video statement that he worked as a professional music video director from 2001 to 2008 and worked with artists like DMX, John Maher, and even Jerry Seinfeld for the “Bee Movie” music video.
Miller says his career then moved toward television, and he received contracts to work with the History Channel, Discovery Channel, Netflix and others.
“Again, I have contracts and paperwork to verify everything I’ve said is accurate and true,” he said.
Miller did not immediately provide evidence of those contracts when contacted by Fox News Digital on Monday.
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Vem Miller was arrested at a Trump rally in Coachella, California, on Oct. 12, 2024.
2. Miller ran for office in Nevada as a Republican.
State records in Nevada show Miller ran for office unsuccessfully in 2022. He is a registered Republican and was running in the party primary for a seat in Nevada’s General Assembly, landing in third place with 1,337 votes.
He claimed in his video statement that he had received an “entry pass” for Trump’s California rally from the Nevada Republican Party. The Nevada GOP did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
“I can prove that I had a special entry pass sent directly to me by officials within the Republican Party of Nevada,” Miller said in his video statement. “I was an actual invitee to that event.”
Miller says he was apprehended when he declared his firearms to security at a checkpoint to get into the Coachella rally. Police arrested him, but he was later released on a $5,000 bail.
3. He says he has met Don Jr. and Eric Trump.
Miller claimed in his video statement that he has attended numerous rallies for Trump and met some of the former president’s family members.
“I would say in the last four years, I’ve been to a countless number of Trump rallies and Trump events,” Miller said. “I have been, and this is again verifiable, pretty much this far away from the former president, to the point that I could touch him,” he said, indicating a short distance with his hands. “I’ve talked to Don Jr., I’ve talked to Eric Trump. I know a lot of people within the Trump family and extended family.”
Miller went on to describe himself as a “Libertarian more than anything else.”
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Coachella, California, on Oct. 12, 2024. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)
4. He claims he received death threats due to media work.
Miller says he began receiving death threats from anonymous individuals in 2022, leading him to purchase his firearms.
He repeatedly expressed concern about his safety in his video statement, and he offered details about the threats against him.
“Due to the content I produce, around 2022 I started getting multiple death threats,” Miller said. “Until this point, I had never owned a firearm. And these death threats were either emailed to me with what I would call heinous pictures depicting violence – Scrabble pieces were mailed to me one by one spelling the word, ‘dead,’ and so I became concerned.”
He says the concern led him to purchase a Glock handgun and a shotgun. He added that he has never fired either weapon and has never been to a shooting range with them.
Miller says he made a habit of notifying police or security at Trump events that he had the firearms in the trunk of his vehicle.
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“It was simply a common courtesy to police,” he said. “Every time I’ve been to a Nevada rally and notified the police it’s been a non-issue and they thanked me for notifying them.
He added that he felt he made a “critical mistake” in forgetting that he was in California when he declared the firearms at the latest rally.
Fox News’ Stepheny Price and Bryan Preston contributed to this report
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Multiple people lose eyes, hands in illegal fireworks-related injuries in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco emergency departments and first responders experienced a sharp increase in serious injuries over the Fourth of July weekend, with illegal fireworks and electric scooter crashes contributing to some of the busiest days in recent years.
At Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, medical teams treated a wave of patients suffering severe trauma. In one incident, bystanders rushed to help a person who was bleeding heavily after a hand injury. A 911 dispatcher described the call as “Extreme Trauma. Hand injury.”
Dr. Christopher Colwell, chief of emergency medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, said surgeons worked to treat patients with devastating injuries.
“We are able to do a lot with and sometimes save the function of the hand and eye. Unfortunately, there are injuries that exist every year where we are not able to do that even with the expertise that we have,” Colwell said.
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According to Dr. Colwell, four people lost eyes, five lost hands and at least 15 people suffered serious injuries related to electric scooters over the weekend.
“We saw a lot of electric scooter accidents. And I think part of it was that their traffic was such that that was a more efficient way of getting around town. But we also learned very clearly that the combination of electric scooters and how fast you can go in San Francisco, particularly going downhill along with not wearing a helmet and adding alcohol on board, is a really bad combination,” Colwell said.
ABC7’s data team reviewed San Francisco EMT data and found that medical incidents on July 4 and July 5 were about double the number reported during the same period in 2025.
Lt. Mariano Elias of the San Francisco Fire Department said emergency crews handled significantly more calls than usual.
“We had almost 200 more calls than we normally have so we had roughly 576 calls in a 24-hour period,” Elias said.
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Illegal fireworks activity also sparked fires across the city. Firefighters responded to Telegraph Hill, where crews quickly contained a blaze.
“We did have two house fires that night on the 4th of July, due to fireworks activities,” Elias said.
City officials estimated that more than 100,000 people were in San Francisco to watch Fourth of July fireworks, creating traffic congestion that complicated ambulance response efforts.
“All the gridlock between, people coming and going from, the Golden Gate Bridge. The city was very impacted on the streets. So that was an issue. The one particular ambulance did, involve themselves in an accident. So, someone hit the ambulance. So that patient had to be transported and moved to a different ambulance,” Elias said.
First responders warned that illegal fireworks activity typically continues for days after the Fourth of July and urged the public not to take unnecessary risks.
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DENVER (KKTV) – Colorado firefighters prevented a fire from spreading to a home in Denver late Monday afternoon after it fully engulfed a power pole and destroyed most of a detached garage.
Adams County Fire Rescue said crews responded to a house fire in the 8300 block of Nueva Vista Drive, near Coronado Hills Elementary School, around 5 p.m.
Firefighters said when crews arrived, they saw heavy smoke from behind the home in a detached garage, as well as a fully engulfed power pole.
The incident was soon upgraded to a second-alarm fire, firefighters said.
The fire destroyed most of the detached garage, part of a shed as well as nearby fences and vehicles, firefighters said. The fire did not spread to the actual home.
The residents of the home had evacuated the area when firefighters arrived, and crews helped evacuate the four surrounding homes, firefighters said.
Firefighters said Xcel Energy crews were called to shut off the power lines in the area.
Firefighters said there were no injuries.
The cause of the fire is under investigation as of Tuesday morning.
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Thanks to Susan for the photo. She called to tell us about a dog stuck on the rocks off Beach Drive near Harbor West (the condos on pilings), and a crowd gathering to figure out how to rescue it from the rising tide. We were away from the desk at the time but after returning a little while later, we heard the situation mentioned on police radio, with word the dog had been rescued, so we didn’t head that way. Then late tonight Susan sent photos, explaining that the dog apparently is known to swim to those rocks and back, but for some reason got stuck this time, “until a paddle boarder and kayaker paddled out to it to coax it off the rocks and back to the shore.”
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