'What the F-ck Is This?': Team Trump Blindsided by Jan. 6 Committee Getting Doc Footage

[speak easy]

Source: RollingStone

The Jan. 6 committee has subpoenaed documentary filmmaker Alex Holder in regard to footage and interviews Holder and his team shot while following former President Donald Trump and his inner circle throughout the 2020 presidential campaign. Holder's company, AJH Films, confirmed to Rolling Stone on Tuesday that he has been subpoenaed, will sit for an interview with the panel on Thursday, and has "fully complied with all of the committee's requests."

Trump's team was blindsided by the development, which was initially reported by Politico.

In some of the highest ranks of the Trumpworld diaspora -- including among several who testified before the Jan. 6 committee -- news of the documentarian cooperating with the congressional panel (and also potentially having reams of behind-the-scenes footage of Trump's crusade to nullify the 2020 election) came as a bizarre surprise. "What the fuck is this?" a former top Trump 2020 official messaged Rolling Stone on Tuesday after seeing the Politico item.

Another former senior official on the reelection team insisted that the first time several members of the Trump campaign leadership even heard of the documentary was when Politico reported the committee had subpoenaed the Holder. A third ex-official simply said, "Terrible idea," and pleaded baffled ignorance to the doc project.

Read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alex-holder-jan-6-committee-subpoena-1371644/

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Flies on the wall and a lot of shit going down.

[Lonestarblue]

1. May they be just as incriminating as ghe Nixon tapes were.

[wnylib]

27. My first thought, too.

[calimary]

36. From your keyboard to God's screen!

[Better Days Ahoy]

38. You're welcome

[calimary]

45. And while I'm at it, Welcome to DU, Better Days Ahoy!

[Better Days Ahoy]

52. Thank you, calimary!

I surfed and circled around DU for the better part of 18 months before responding or posting. Love this group. Some of the best comments and witticisms I've read. You are my people. Kept me sane in 2020 - 2021.

[calimary]

54. It's kept me sane through a whole bunch of "thick-'n'-thins"!

And I learn something new every day! This place isn't just a website or a chatroom. It's a think tank. It's "Resource Central"! It's as good as it is because all of us have contributed to making it that good. Some absolute-torch-'n'-twang brilliant writers and thinkers post and postulate here. Opinions and positions get developed, test-driven, adjusted, refined here. We laugh, we cry, we celebrate, we fulminate. Arguments are shaped, and leavened with factual details - sometimes by the ton! People are really eloquent here. And some of the writing here is just downright brain-sexy!

[Better Days Ahoy]

55. Totally agree about this totally unique refuge

You summarize my giddy awe when I was introduced to DU. I'll need to update my game when I come off the sidelines.

[mpcamb]

40. "Drip, drip, drip" is a phrase I remember from Nixon's last weeks in office,

altho this is more like crash, boom, bam!

They're such oafs, but they looked like they'd get away without blame.

[wryter2000]

43. And no Rosemary Woods

To erase the worst parts.

[Lovie777]

2. I guess shithole and comrades were gonna to put out the film in theaters . . ...

after complete take over the country by Martial Law.

[SergeStorms]

19. Excuse me....

that's "Mashall Law" according to MT Greene.

[KS Toronado]

50. What I was thinking

IQ4.5 thought a blockbuster movie about himself was going to make a lot of $$$$$$$$$$$$
Now it can be titled......HOW FASCISTS FAIL

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. OPPS! Someone left the camera running.

Serves these assholes right.

[COL Mustard]

4. Hey Rudy!

You're sayin' the quiet part out loud!!!

[FakeNoose]

21. Yes and I hope the mics were on too

[Quakerfriend]

5. This is excellent! Lordy, let there be tapes

of TFG gleefully watching the TV while doing nothing at all to stop the rioters @ the capital…. Can’t wait!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. "Lordy, I hope there are tapes."

From your lips to God's ears.

[speak easy]

7. I wonder if Roger Stone has given Mar-a-Lago a call yet?

[tanyev]

8. Triumph of the Will becomes Trial of the Shill.

[Journeyman]

11. Clever . . .

[ZonkerHarris]

9. Trump's gone rogue on their own campaign. hahahahahahahaha

[70sEraVet]

10. I DO hope they make those videos public. Enormous fun watching tfg hang himself.

You KNOW he can't keep his mouth shut when he's in front of a camera.

[Mr. Ected]

12. These are the most hapless fascist wannabes perhaps in the history of the world

Mean as hell, dangerous as ****, but dumb.

This may become the smoking AR-15 that takes out a cabal. Poetic justice.

[AKwannabe]

33. Thread winner! nt

[OnDoutside]

13. Do we know when the J6C found out this existed ? Seems very late

in the day....

[speak easy]

28. The filmmaker was under an NDA to Netflix.

Trump's inner circle were not going to talk about it. According to Schiff, the Committee got a tip off, after inviting people to come forward.

[OnDoutside]

31. Excellent, thanks that is great!

[localroger]

14. Probably thought they could give it a cool name like

Triumph of the Will, about the glorious beginnings of their Reich.

[speak easy]

17. Mein Trumpf (My Trumpet)

[electric_blue68]

48. Bwah!

[gab13by13]

15. I get depressed when I see articles like this,

DOJ should be the lead dog. Oh well, at least the select committee will reveal all of the crimes that could have been prosecuted.

Allow me to post for my friends here, we don't know if DOJ is also investigating this.

[HuskyOffset]

16. Wow, you mean to tell me

that NONE of the lawyers involved in the campaign had any questions when they saw video cameras in the room when they were discussing sensitive shit? I'm miles from being knowledgeable about legal matters, but goddamn, how stupid are these lawyers?!?

[speak easy]

18. They could shoot 4K on iPhones for fly on the wall stuff.

[SergeStorms]

20. If Trump wanted it...

and we know Trump loves to be the center of all attention, not one of his lackies would dare question it.

At the time, he was still tweeting. They might have been the subject of one of Trump's deadly tweets!

[FakeNoose]

22. The smart lawyers had already quit ... long ago!

Chump's lawyers were deranged and desperate because they were the only ones left.

No matter what Chump says now - I'll guarantee you he greenlit this movie project. He wanted to be the star of his own movie that showed him "winning" the presidency.

Wasn't that considerate of him to provide all this evidence in a nice package?

[machoneman]

41. Stupid yes but I'll bet they thought since Trump, Meadows, et al approved same, why question it?

Love the fact that the J6 committee has experts on their video/audio/presentation team. One can be sure that hours of video and audio will be condensed to show the worst stuff that was recorded.

Hard for defendants to argue with their own words and visages, eh?

[Native]

46. Exactly. Trump is known for his love of NDAs.

[ms liberty]

23. Please let this be one of the times I get to see "karma" in action

So often you see only one end of it - like the car doing 90 mph but not the cop catching them at it. In this case, we've been a captive audience to this mess and I want a satisfying resolution., dammit.

[paleotn]

24. Analog for Nixon's tapes perhaps?

[Grokenstein]

25. "Let's have this guy film us doin' crimes!"

"What could go wrong?"

Dinesh D'Felon must be apoplectic right about now.

[Native]

47. Or as Rachel loves to call it - criming.

[aggiesal]

26. Pendejo45 has to put on a 2nd pair of Depends ...

after hearing a documentarian may have fly-on-the-wall video.

Watch Pendejo45 will go to court to say. "That video has Executive Privilege."

[AKwannabe]

34. Fly on the wall

Hope we ALL get to be! Would be soooooo
DELISH!

[AverageOldGuy]

29. Trump's narcissism . . .

. . . bites him in his lard-filled ass!!!!

What do you bet Trump asked for this documentary to be made so he could watch his 2020 re-election over and over.

[machoneman]

42. See my post above! Yes, not even the lawyers questioned why all this was being filmed. It's because,

of what you said: the narcissist in TFG was so extreme that he thought his multi-level plan to seize a 2nd term was bullet proof, would succeed and he'd revel in those videotapes over and over again. Fuck him as these tapes ARE a smoking gun! !

[SayItLoud]

30. Another nail, another opportunity to start creating VIRAL videos...why aren't they? nt

[AKwannabe]

32. There ARE tapes!

There ARE tapes!

There ARE tapes!

There ARE tapes!

HeheheHahaha!

[speak easy]

35. There ARE tapes: 'Interviews with Trump & Co. on the day of the riot!'

There are Tapes:
https://www.rawstory.com/alex-holder-trump/

[Old Crank]

37. A pet peeve

"reams of footage"
Reams is a measure of paper sheets.
Footage is a measure of film.
Mixed metaphor. But essentially nothing anymore is shot on film. It is all digital.
Calling digital video 'footage' doesn't make sense. Call it 'bitage' of just video.

Now get off my lawn.....

[Better Days Ahoy]

39. So that must be part of the "new evidence" ...

... that Raskin told the press about yesterday during the announcement about the Thursday hearing schedule.

Hope they got those chuckling fools DT Jr. And Dancing Kimberly Guilfoyle on tape, too. They were dancing out of their socks for no reasonable reason that morning. And then we found out why.

[wryter2000]

44. And

Kimberly saying, "fight, fight."

[soldierant]

49. "Flies on the wall and a lot of shit going down."

Quite reasonable - I believe flies get most of their sustenance from shit.

[GoldandSilver]

51. This is the Donald being the Donald.

I hope he screws himself dozens of times and I hope his ass lickers watch every minute.

Enough of this mentally ill creep!

[Earth Bound Misfit]

53. Need more popcorn...

[XorXor]

56. Anything incriminating will be written off as a deepfake by the republicans