Election 2020

Documentarian Says Trump Family Was Plotting Succession-Type Political Dynasty

When the House January 6 committee reviewed British documentarian Alex Holder’s footage of Donald Trump and his family in the days preceding the Jan. 6 insurrection, it turned things upside-down for the panel.

Now they had some real meat-and-bones to pick through. Enough so, that they felt they needed to pause the hearings. And as The Independent reports, some of that footage is pretty startling. I don’t know if this is the most shocking part of Holder’s footage, but apparent former President Donald Trump’s son Eric didn’t care whether his father’s supporters would react violently, spurred by Trump’s lies alleging the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

Holder turned over the raw footage that was captured between September 2020 and mid-2021 while being interviewed by the panel. The video is scheduled to air on Discovery+ this summer.

In an interview with The Independent, Holder said Trump family members, especially Eric Trump, were not bothered by the idea that their father’s frequently violent rhetoric regarding his loss to now-President Joe Biden would spur violence from his supporters.

“When I asked Eric about the potential danger of sort of rhetoric and the sort of the belligerence, he felt that it was … fair game in that it … was the sort of equivalent on the other side of the political discourse, or that he felt that it was the right thing to do … because the election was stolen,” he said.

As he shot the footage, Holder couldn’t help but feel a sense of foreboding that they may very well be violence as he continued readying his documentary, and the ex-president and his family kept maintaining that the 2020 election was stolen. Even in the face of courts that repeatedly rejected lawsuits (at least 60) that sought to overturn the election.

“The idea of violence to me, seemed likely because of the fact that when you tell 75 million people that their vote didn’t count, and the person that’s telling you that is not just the guy you voted for, but also the incumbent President of the United States, the chance of violence was always there,” Holder said.

When you add to that the fact that one heck of a lot of Trumpers firmly believe that the QAnon theory is true, it’s like lighting a match. And in a YouGov/Yahoo!News poll conducted in October 2020 found that half of his supporters believed in this completely and thoroughly debunked fallacy, well, that’s like adding the gasoline. The poll, as reported by USAToday, was a survey of 1,583 registered users and was taken shortly after Trump held a town hall.

So now you have the needed fuel and all you have to do is toss the lit match. And on Jan. 6, 2021, that’s what happened.

Holder saw this in action, and his documentary Unprecedented, scheduled to be released this summer will “chronicle the events leading up to the Capitol attack.” Holder adds that the documentary also serves as a “fascinating insight into the Trump dynamic” that “shows a sort of Succession type vibe between the three siblings and who potentially could one day take over from their father in terms of heading that sort of Trump dynasty.”

Well, whatever. As long as they keep this “dynasty” out of the White House. That’s all I ask for.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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