Filmmaker Alex Holder Talks About The Making Of His Donald Trump Project And The “Dangerous And Delusional View” That Led To January 6th
25.06.2022 - 21:33
/ deadline.com
Alex Holder said that during the interviews he conducted for his Discovery+ docuseries Unprecedented, Donald Trump never wavered from his contention that the election was stolen from him, while his children, including Ivanka, supported their father’s post-election challenge.
Yet Holder’s access to the First Family isn’t the only reason that the January 6th Committee was interested in his footage, something that put him in the spotlight this week after news broke that his materials had been subpoenaed and he appeared for a private deposition.
The committee, Holder said in an interview with Deadline, also is examining footage from January 6th, when he was shooting not just at Trump’s rally that morning at the Ellipse but also when he went with his director of photography, to the chaos unfolding at the Capitol. The DP was attacked and part of his camera was broken.
Holder declined to go into specifics, but said the footage from that day is “definitely unique.” He said that it is probably “the clearest version of that day that has been seen,” capturing the scene that has been described as akin to a war zone.
Ever since reports surfaced of the existence of the documentary, the nature of the project has been the subject of intrigue, curiosity and some misconceptions and assumption of what Holder was doing. His attorney, Russell Smith, put out a statement insisting Trump and his family did not request nor were they given editorial control over the project, which Discovery+ plans to air over three parts this summer.
“It’s been completely insane. I think at the beginning of the week, I started with 112 followers on Twitter, which the majority of them were my family, and by the end of the week, I think I have 35,000, 3 million views on