Congress has already subpoenaed a sneak peek of Discovery Plus’ new Jan. 6 docuseries
Unprecedented was filmed by Alex Holder, who'll be testifying before the Jan. 6 Committee this week
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Warner Bros. Discovery’s Discovery+ streaming service has reportedly acquired a new docuseries all about the January 6 attack on the Capitol—one so inflammatory, apparently, that its director is set to testify before the congressional committee on the event this week.
Specifically, Deadline reports that the streaming service has acquired the rights to Unprecedented, a new 3-part docuseries directed by Eric Holder, who somehow managed to embed himself in the Donald Trump camp throughout the months where its members were formulating their response to Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election—right up through Jan. 6, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn that victory.
Holder was reportedly subpoenaed by the House’s Jan. 6 Committee just recently, as part of motions that have seen their hearings extended to gather more evidence about what, exactly, went down that day. Holder has reportedly been cooperating with the committee, including sharing footage shot throughout his time around the Trumps.
When questioned about the footage, Discovery+—which apparently purchased Holder’s series last summer—issued a statement:
Alex Holder’s Unprecedented three-part docuseries about the 2020 election will be released on Discovery+ later this summer. Featuring never-before-seen footage of the Trump family on the campaign trail and their reactions to the outcome of the election, the docuseries will offer intimate and unprecedented interviews with Trump, his family and others who were in the White House.
Among other things, Holder apparently shot interviews in the six weeks leading up to the 2020 election with “Trump, his daughter Ivanka, sons Eric and Don Jr. and son-in-law Jared Kushner as well as Vice President Mike Pence,” offering up what’s hoped to be a clearer picture at all the shit that was going down in those camps before the attack on the Capitol. Holder also made his own statement about the footage, which he says couldn’t immediately be released due to complications related to the series being sold:
When we began this project in September 2020, we could have never predicted that our work would one day be subpoenaed by Congress. 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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As an outsider to the whole circus, the fuckin’ Jan 6 shenanigans just blows my mind.We need to send the AEC over to oversee your next election. First things first, we’ll fuck off those voting machines and replace them with the correct, cutting-edge Aussie electoral technology:I can’t believe you guys can’t even draw dicks on your ballots.
No reason to add more dicks to our ballots.
So, I counted ballots in the 2013 election. Senate ballots. That had this ballot paper:(The hyper-enthusiastic little guy on the left is Antony Green – the ABC’s election specialist, and THE absolute king of every election. One of the true great broadcasters, and an absolute legend – the election ain’t over, as they say, until Antony Green’s called it.)As you can see from that video, there is, as they so, so much room for activities. One guy took a glue stick and political cartoon he’s printed off and snipped out, and glued them to the ballot – still valid, could still make out his preferences.There were many, many, penises. Many.There was intricately-detailed 14-incher drawn on the back. Pubes, veins, a hefty ballsack, the works. Must’ve been a fucking good artist or old-school draftsman, because underneath, in the sort of perfected copperplate you’d see on old-school blueprints, was:1:1 SCALEBut the only voter who really pissed me off was whatever smarted prick who filled out all fucking 82 Senate candidates, below the line, in Roman numerals.If I find that person, I will hurt them.
Did you count ballots in 2013? I’m not sure if everyone knows that.
You seem a little slow at times, so I thought it best I repeat myself.
I only recently learned that “the law says it has to be a pencil” is an urban myth! Can you believe that?
Oh, you can use anything as long as it clearly indicates your preference. Lord, the shit I saw counting votes in the 2013 election.
“you can use anything as long as it clearly indicates your preference”
How about my middle finger?
As an outsider to the whole circus, the fuckin’ Jan 6 shenanigans just blows my mind. It’s really, REALLY SUPER FUN to be living with on a daily basis. 😀
KENO for president?
Specifically, Deadline that the streaming service has acquired the rights to Unprecedented, a new 3-part docuseries directed by Eric Holder, who somehow managed to embed himself in the Donald Trump campObama’s attorney general has had a wild career, damn!
Eric Holder is the former Attorney General under Obama. Alex Holder is the director of this documentary.
Fact-checking? Copy editing? That’s something the old AV Club would have done. These days, not so much.
Therefore…ducks have zigzag dicks?
“Eric Holder, who somehow managed to embed himself in the Donald Trump camp throughout the months…”
Maybe he pretended he was a cheeseburger.
Unprecedented, a new 3-part docuseries directed by Eric Holder, who somehow managed to embed himself in the Donald Trump camp throughout the months where its members were formulating their response to Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election—right up through Jan. 6, when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an effort to overturn that victory.Pretty sure that wasn’t the former attorney general in the Obama administration, otherwise that would be a hell of a feat.