British documentary filmmaker Alex Holder has been quite the center of attention lately after it was revealed that he was in the process of filming and producing a documentary for Discovery+ on then-outgoing President Donald Trump and his inner circle around the time of the January 6th Capitol riot — and the House Select Committee has subpoenaed and acquired both Holder’s raw footage, as well as his personal testimony.
In the wake of the recently ignored attention, the Guardian’s Hugo Lowell took a deep dive into Holder, who said that he heavily suspected something bad was going to happen on January 6th, 2021, as he personally saw Donald Trump’s fear and desperation growing.
Holder, who conducted interviews with not only Trump himself, but his closest insiders and even his children, said there was a palpable feeling within Trump World that something huge was about to happen, on the day that Donald’s rabid mob of supporters would go on to violently and fatally storm the nation’s Capitol building.
“Holder was there for it all: three sit-down interviews with Trump, including one at the White House, numerous other interviews with Trump’s adult children, private conversations among top aides and advisers before the election, and around the Capitol itself as it got stormed,” Lowell writes, going on to add, “The access to Trump, and listening to him and his inner circle, led him to suspect that the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election would somehow culminate in some event at the Capitol on 6 January.”
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When asked specifically about his feelings prior to the infamous insurrection, Holder explained, “I wasn’t 100% sure, but it was sort of a feeling, so we prepared for that thing to happen. The reason we thought January 6 was because, in Trump’s mind, the last-ditch effort was to stop the process” of Congress’ certification of the Electoral College votes that made Joe Biden’s election win official.
“That ceremonial process that takes place in Congress on January 6, he felt, was the last time where he could, in his mind, stop the election going to the wrong person, as it were. The rhetoric that was coming out was that the election was rigged, [that] we need to fight,” the filmmaker added.
Lowell notes in his report that Holder has “testified for about four hours behind closed doors last week about his roughly 100 hours of footage, used for an upcoming documentary titled Unprecedented, and turned over to House investigators the parts demanded in a subpoena compelling his cooperation.”
The report goes on to add “Holder said he additionally did a one-to-one interview with then-vice president Mike Pence, including a scene where Pence briefly reviews an email about the 25th amendment – which concerns the removal of a US president – which was privately discussed among senior White House officials in the wake of the Capitol attack.”
Read the full report from The Guardian here.
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