Jan. 6 committee subpoenas never-before-seen documentary footage of Trump and his inner circle
The Jan. 6 committee sent a subpoena last week requiring British filmmaker Alex Holder to submit never-before-seen documentary footage of the events of Jan. 6, former President Donald Trump, and members of Trump's inner circle to the committee, Politico reported Tuesday.
Holder had been working on a documentary series on the 2020 election called Unprecedented, which is set to be released as a three-part series on an unidentified streaming platform this summer.
"We understand," Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in the subpoena, "you have raw footage depicting the January 6th attack and of President Trump and others discussing the November 2020 presidential election results."
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The scheduled attached to the subpoena required Holder to produce any raw footage taken in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6; any raw footage "pertaining to discussions of election fraud or election integrity" in the 2020 presidential election; and any raw footage of interviews conducted with then-President Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Jared Kushner, or then-Vice President Mike Pence from Sept. 2020 through the present.
Trump's allies were reportedly blindsided by the news, with one former Trump 2020 campaign official messaging Rolling Stone, "What the f--k is this?" after seeing the Politico story.
The committee plans to interview Holder on Thursday.
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Grayson Quay was the weekend editor at TheWeek.com. His writing has also been published in National Review, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Modern Age, The American Conservative, The Spectator World, and other outlets. Grayson earned his M.A. from Georgetown University in 2019.
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