There's a fascinating news story just in today about a documentary filmmaker who had inside access to the Trump campaign and has been subpoenaed – and agreed to testify. Obviously I have no way of knowing if his material is explosive or not, but it certainly has that potential. Here’s the story from Politico –
* * * The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 sent a subpoena last week to ALEX HOLDER, a documentary filmmaker who was granted extensive access to President DONALD TRUMP and his inner circle, and who shot interviews with the then-president both before and after Jan. 6. The existence of this footage is previously unreported. A source familiar with the project told Playbook on Monday night that Holder began filming on the campaign trail in September 2020 for a project on Trump’s reelection campaign. Over the course of several months, Holder had substantial access to Trump, Trump’s adult children and VP MIKE PENCE, both in the White House and on the campaign trail. According to the subpoena, which was obtained exclusively by Playbook, the committee wants three main things from Holder: (1) Raw footage from Jan. 6. (2) Raw footage of interviews from September 2020 to present with Trump, Pence, DONALD TRUMP JR., IVANKA TRUMP, ERIC TRUMP and JARED KUSHNER. (3) Raw footage “pertaining to discussions of election fraud or election integrity surrounding the November 2020 presidential election.” Holder is expected to fully cooperate with the committee in an interview scheduled for Thursday. * * * And this is a subsequent statement that Holder released -- "When we began this project in September 2020, we could have never predicted that our work would one day be subpoenaed by Congress," he told The Washington Post. "As a British filmmaker, I had no agenda coming into this. We simply wanted to better understand who the Trumps were and what motivated them to hold onto power so desperately. We have dutifully handed over all the materials the Committee has asked for, and we are fully cooperating."
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