The attempted revolution was televised -- and filmed

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So there was a documentarian filming the Proud Boys.

Now we learn that there was one filming the Trumps.

And, little noticed: a documentarian was with Alex Jones on and prior to Jan. 6.

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Analysis | The attempted revolution was televised — and filmed
At least three documentary filmmakers were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, including ones accompanying the Proud Boys, Alex Jones — and Trump.
9:16 AM · Jun 21, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/21/attempted-revolution-was-televised-and-filmed/

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The House select committee investigating the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, began its recent calendar of public hearings with two witnesses. One might have been predicted: a police officer at the Capitol that day who was assaulted by supporters of Donald Trump. The other probably wouldn’t have been: a documentary filmmaker named Nick Quested.

Quested was there because he was a witness to the actions of the extremist Proud Boys group in the days leading up to the riot and on Jan. 6 itself. The group gave him that access, agreeing to participate in the production of a film about its efforts despite its predilection for violence and lawbreaking. So the committee asked Quested to come and describe what he saw; in private, the committee reviewed the footage Quested and his team had captured.

As it turns out, though, having a filmmaker follow you around and make a movie about you was not something that appealed to the vanity of the Proud Boys alone. On Tuesday, we learned that Trump himself was working with a documentary filmmaker named Alex Holder. In a subpoena obtained by Politico, the committee asked Holder to turn over any footage from Jan. 6 in which plans to overturn the election were discussed and any interviews with Trump, his family and former vice president Mike Pence.

In a statement, Holder said that he had turned over the compliant footage to the committee. The project began in September 2020, he wrote, with his team “simply [wanting] to better understand who the Trumps were and what motivated them to hold onto power so desperately.” Safe to say that the team was well positioned to explore that question.

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1. Make no mistake

Had liberals/antifa/BLM did what the Red Hats did, the Republicans would be crying for public executions for treason.