Fascinating look at the Trump family on January 6, 2021

Fascinating interview with the British documentarian who was with the Trump family on January 6.

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Trump documentary filmmaker Alex Holder has said that Eric Trump is scared of his older brother Donald Trump Jr.

He said former President Donald Trump seemed to be “a very insecure man who depends on external adoration and can’t comprehend why he doesn’t get it. He also wears a huge amount of make up”.

“I think he finds it difficult to understand that there are people who actually don’t like him. This bothers him a lot. He is fine with people not liking him if he doesn’t like them first ... but other than that he thinks he should be loved by everyone.”

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Mr Holder had unparalleled access to the Trump family in the lead-up to, and for a period after, the 2020 election, which Mr Trump still falsely claims he won.

The filmmaker said Mr Trump “is incapable of believing anything other than him being a ‘winner’. He cannot accept that he lost and convinces himself that he won. It’s pretty extraordinary to witness up-close”.

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“Eric is probably least like his father but I say this only because Don Jr and Ivanka are very similar to their old man,” Mr Holder said during the AMA.

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One Reddit user asked what he thought the former president’s intentions were for the hundreds of classified documents that he was found to have brought to his private Florida club Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House.

“I think he just wanted them because he thinks they belong to him!” Mr Holder said.

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“How much did you get the sense that controlled chaos was a well-crafted strategy, or was it truly a s**t show with every day a new, unplanned catastrophe?” one user asked Mr Holder, who said it was a “total s**t show”.

When asked how he was treated by the Trumps and their staff, Mr Holder said, “it’s interesting, they are a real estate family from New York – so they are good at the charm and schmooze, but to be honest it’s pretty transparent”.

  Yahoo Money

I don't think I can make myself watch the documentary.  These people make me want to wretch.

Do listen to the interview, though. It's confirmation that each of the Trumps is exactly what you think they are.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Unprecedented

I assume we'll be seeing more clips from this documentary during the remaining January 6 hearings, but maybe not.  It reminds me of the documentary that accidentally caught the kidnapping and conspiracy against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.  Only this one might not be so favorable to the subject of the film.

And here's a very interesting clip from the first of June:

Let us see the documentary footage - unedited

Documentarian Alex Holder testified in an early January 6 hearing, but no clips of his video were offered.

Alex Holder, who sat for a deposition with the House Jan. 6 select committee last week, said in an interview published Wednesday with New York magazine that Trump now seemed to be “utterly irrational” and living in an alternate reality.

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He said his film focuses on the president and his three eldest children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump.

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The filmmaker said he believes the family let him film them because they expected Trump to win and wanted Holder to capture the victory. He also said not being part of the “media fabric” that they distrusted may have helped gain their trust.

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Holder interviewed Trump on multiple occasions, including twice after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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“It’s very scary when people start to believe their own lies and when you can’t have a rational conversation with them — that’s when things become very dangerous,” he said.

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Holder said those around Trump in the time before and after the attack had different views on his efforts to overturn the election. He said some were hopeful that Trump would be successful, while others were strongly opposed to his efforts and others were indifferent.

“There was a sense of people feeling a bit scared of him,” he said.

  The Hill

Perhaps with good reason. After all, he's connected to the Russian mob.

Holder said on a Yahoo News podcast on Wednesday that Trump is incapable of recognizing that his claims of voter fraud are false and is living in “cloud cuckoo land.” He said his recordings show Trump genuinely believes his claims.

“Donald Trump is not a rational player..

That won't make the job of convicting him easier.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.