Trump Documentary Maker Now Has 2 Armed Guards After Jan. 6 Evidence

A British documentary maker who filmed the Trump family in the direct-up to his 2020 election defeat informed BBC News that two armed guards now travel with him for security.

“My lifestyle transformed about a 7 days back in that I now virtually have two armed guards outdoors this studio proper now that stick to me close to almost everywhere,” mentioned Alex Holder for the duration of the BBC News job interview on Wednesday.

Holder, who has testified to the House January 6 committee about hours of footage he shot prior to the election, reported he is turn into the center of conspiracy theories due to the fact supplying evidence.

“Apparently, in accordance to some, I am an undercover FBI agent, some consider I am an MI6 spy,” Holder informed BBC News. “There are all sorts of conspiracies and threats that are coming via.”

Holder introduced footage of previous President Donald Trump chatting about the 2020 election in Georgia. In the clip, then-President Trump describes Georgia’s secretary of point out Brad Raffensperger and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, equally Republicans, as “silly people.”

Trump also seems to refer to the elections as “meaningless.”

The footage prompted Fulton County District Attorney’s Office to get in touch with Holder about cooperating with a Georgia grand jury. He will deliver online video footage to the grand jury and will testify up coming month as component of an investigation into whether or not Trump interfered with Georgia’s 2020 election, for each the legal internet site Legislation.com.

Holder has also agreed to cooperate with the January 6 Home committee, getting been subpoenaed in regard to footage and interviews he shot for his Discovery+ “Unparalleled” documentary.

Holder has now spoken to the committee privately, but he could testify publicly in mid-July, Rolling Stone described.

“I report heritage, I will give any committee or investigation what they need to have in purchase to do their investigation,” Holder instructed BBC Information.

—Alex Holder (@alexjholder) June 23, 2022

In accordance to Rolling Stone, the protection element was delivered by Discovery+. His spokesperson instructed the media outlet that the measures are preemptive, and not connected to any unique threats.

Holder’s documentary, Unprecedented, will air on Discovery+ later this yr. 

Talking to Yahoo Information on the outlet’s podcast, “Skullduggery,” Alex Holder said the loved ones agreed to be filmed for the documentary mainly because they ended up “extremely, extremely confident they had been heading to win the election,” Insider’s Cheryl Teh described.

Holder explained the January 6th insurrection as Trump’s “last hurrah,” he mentioned in the course of the podcast. “He had this preposterous plan that intervening in this ceremonial process of certifying these outcomes could someway protect against President Biden from being inaugurated.”