25, three days after the second presidential debate and nine days before Election Day. Holder traveled with then-President Trump on Sunday, Oct. Holder told us a bit more about that trip, and it turns out to be much more interesting than we knew. You can listen to the full podcast here (and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify), but we want to zoom in on one intriguing portion of our conversation with Holder.ĪN UNKNOWN TRUMP-PUTIN PHONE CALL? - On Thursday, we noted that during a trip aboard Air Force One, a scheduled interview between Holder and Trump was abruptly canceled. A friend from London messaged, “You got papped!” - meaning paparazzi were snapping shots of him when he was on the Hill. “I just got a text from DON LEMON,” he said at one point. (This morning, it’s at 2.7 million.) Every time he looked at his phone, there was another surprise. When we finished, it had over 1.2 million. “And today, I think I have close to 20,000.” When we sat down, he said that a video clip of Trump from his film that he had just posted already had 800,000 views. “On Monday, I didn’t exist, and had 115 Twitter followers,” he said. He marveled at how his Twitter account had blown up. When he arrived in the lobby, he had a private security guard with him. It was immediately apparent how his life had changed. 6 investigators, we met up with him for an hour-plus interview for this week’s “Playbook Deep Dive” podcast. On Thursday, shortly after he finished talking to Jan. 6 committee, turned over all of his footage and was coming to Washington this week for a closed-door deposition before the committee. On Tuesday, we broke the story about the details of Holder’s film, that he had been subpoenaed by the Jan. Very few people in Trumpworld knew about the project. The final product is a three-part series called “Unprecedented” that will appear on Discovery+ this summer. 6, 2021, he and his cameraman were in Washington filming as the mob sacked the Capitol. After they left office, Holder continued recording at Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago. He interviewed Trump and Pence at the White House. Through a connection to JARED KUSHNER, Holder secured access to Trump, former VP MIKE PENCE, Trump’s adult children and other members of the former president’s inner circle. documentarian ALEX HOLDER started working on a film about DONALD TRUMP. THE PLAYBOOK INTERVIEW: ALEX HOLDER - In September 2020, U.K. If Alex Holder’s memory is accurate, Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin just minutes after the news broke that the Russian president had dismissed Trump’s Hunter Biden allegations.
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