How a first-time British director scored unprecedented access to the end of Trump’s presidency
n Dec. 7, 2020, Alex Holder found himself face-to-face with President Donald Trump at a watershed moment in U.S. history. Trump had clearly lost his bid for re-election; dozens of lawsuits challenging the results in critical swing states had been swiftly rejected. But he was refusing to concede, setting the stage for a constitutional crisis and, in a month’s time, a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Eighteen months later, Holder, 33, finds himself once again at the center of the political universe. All three parts ofhis documentary on the Trumps, will premiere on Discovery Plus on Sunday. The series has drawn intense interest over the last month, after the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack interviewed Holder and subpoenaed him for all of the footage he took of Trump and the former president’s associates in the days and weeks leading up to the Capitol riot.
“We discussed this crazy idea of making a documentary about the Trump family and obviously President Trump himself,” Holder says of his conversation with Greenblatt. The discussion continued for a few months before Greenblatt pitched the idea to the president and his children. “They’d been complaining so much about how the media is misrepresenting them. And no one really knows who they are,” Holder says. “They had a really cynical view of the media.
The strategy worked. Holder ultimately landed three interviews with Trump for the documentary. Only the first one, at the White House on Dec. 7, 2020, was while Trump was still President. The other two were at Mar-a-Lago in March 2021 and at Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey in May 2021. Holder is reluctant to share too much of what Trump told him in those interviews; he says he wants people to watch the film, which has dominated the last two years of his life, to find out.
Following around the president and his children on the campaign trail, and in the days and weeks after the election, led Holder to suspect that something ominous would ensue. “I don’t effing care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me,” Trump said, according to Hutchinson. “Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”
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