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A documentary filmmaker said Eric Trump was not affected by possible violence prior to the January 6 attack.
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Alex Holder told the independent that Eric Trump wasn’t concerned about his family’s incendiary rhetoric.
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According to Holder, Eric Trump considered violence “fair game,” citing the 2020 election lies.
A documentary maker who interviewed then-President Donald Trump and several members of his family ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot said some of the Trumps were not concerned that their continued lies about the sanctity of the 2020 presidential election would eventually lead to political violence.
Alex Holder, British documentary filmmaker whose footage was subpoenaed by the committee on January 6 earlier this month, told the independent Trump’s second-eldest son, Eric Trump, suggested in interviews that violence by Trump supporters could be an appropriate response to the loss of his father to President Joe Biden, citing unfounded and disproven claims of voter fraud.
“When I asked Eric about the potential danger of some kind of rhetoric and kind of warmongering, he felt it was…fair game because it…was sort of an equivalent on the other side of the political discourse, or he felt it was it.” right thing to do… because the election was stolen,” Holder told the outlet.
A spokesman for Eric Trump did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Trump’s rhetoric in the aftermath of the elections — including invite his supporters to Washington, DC, and tell them “fight like hell – preceded the” January 6, 2021 uprisingwhich resulted in five deaths and hundreds of arrests.
Holder told The Independent that when he interviewed members of the Trump family in the months following the November election, he grew increasingly concerned that Trump’s lies about a “stolen election” would lead to violence.
“The idea of violence seemed likely to me because of the fact that when you tell 75 million people their vote didn’t count, and the person who tells you that is not only the man you voted for, but the incumbent president of the United States. States, the potential for violence was always there,” he told the outlet.
Holder’s latest film, titled “Unprecedented,” will be released on Discovery+ later this summer. Holder told The Independent that the film focuses on the events leading up to the Capitol siege, while also offering a “fascinating insight” into the dynamics of the Trump family.
Holder has become a key figure in the House selection committee’s investigation into the uprising after lawmakers subpoenaed nearly 11 hours of his footage. Last week, the filmmaker testified in private before the panel.
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